Overview:
Narcissism appears to be rising to epidemic levels, and clinicians are increasingly called upon to work with clients impacted by narcissistic spectrum behaviors—either as individuals exhibiting these traits or as partners navigating their effects. These clients present unique relational challenges, including emotional dysregulation, boundary violations, and identity confusion rooted in chronic invalidation or manipulation.
This treatment-focused seminar will equip clinicians with practical skills to work effectively with narcissistic spectrum clients and their partners. You’ll gain tools to manage entitlement, grandiosity, perfectionism, and emotional dysregulation—traits commonly associated with narcissistic personality presentations. The seminar also addresses the emotional burdens carried by partners in these relationships, including guilt, shame, and chronic self-blame.
Through clinical examples and structured interventions, participants will learn how to build therapeutic rapport while maintaining clear boundaries, address manipulation without reinforcing defenses, and help clients move toward healthier relational functioning. The ultimate goal: to reduce maladaptive behaviors, rebuild self-worth, and support long-term change within and beyond the therapeutic relationship.
Objectives:
Identify narcissistic personality components and subtypes.
Plan treatment trajectories when working with narcissistic clients and their partners to enhance therapeutic success.
Discuss the structure of NPD and its adverse impact on relationships.
Enhance skills to manage narcissistic expressions and its impact on partners who participate in treatment.
Develop skills to minimize maladaptive relationship pathology to help your narcissistic spectrum clients and their partners learn adaptive relationship skills.
Assist your clients to build resistance and resiliency against manipulative behavior often seen in relationships with individuals along the narcissistic spectrum.
This recorded webinar is delivered in a lecture-based format, incorporating clinical illustrations, visual models, and interactive reflection questions to support application of concepts. Instruction includes structured frameworks for identifying narcissistic traits, navigating comorbidities, and applying treatment strategies with both narcissistic spectrum clients and their partners.
Limitations:
While there is growing evidence supporting treatment for narcissistic personality traits, outcomes may vary significantly due to client defensiveness, comorbid diagnoses, and relational complexity. Therapeutic alliance and sustained engagement can be challenging. Clinicians should tailor interventions and maintain realistic expectations for change.
Commercial Disclosure:
Dr. Daniel Fox is the author of several books related to personality disorders, including The Narcissistic Personality Disorder Toolbox and Complex Borderline Personality Disorder. These resources are not required for this course and will not be promoted during the presentation. Dr. Fox receives an royalties for this training from E Care Behavioral Health Institute and has no other relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Course materials are only available to enrolled students.
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Dr. Daniel Fox
Daniel J. Fox, PhD, is an accomplished licensed psychologist, international speaker, and author who has received multiple awards for his contributions to the field. He has devoted over 20 years of his career to specializing in treating and assessing individuals with personality disorders across various settings, including the state and federal prison system, universities, and private practice. His expertise encompasses a range of topics, such as personality disorders, ethics, burnout prevention, and emotional intelligence. Dr. Fox has authored numerous articles and books on these subjects, including the acclaimed Narcissistic Personality Disorder Toolbox, The Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment of Personality Disorders, the award-winning Antisocial, Borderline, Narcissistic and Histrionic Workbook: Treatment strategies for Cluster B Personality Disorders, The Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook, and Complex Borderline Personality Disorder. Dr. Fox has been teaching and supervising students for over 20 years at various universities across the United States, some of which include West Virginia University, Texas A&M University, University of Houston, Sam Houston State University, and Florida State University. He works in the federal prison system, is an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Houston, and maintains a private practice specializing in assessing and treating individuals with complex psychopathology and personality disorders. Dr. Fox has given numerous workshops and seminars on ethics and personality disorders, personality disorders and crime, treatment solutions for working with clients along the antisocial, borderline, narcissistic, and histrionic personality spectrum, emotional intelligence, managing mental health within the prison system, and others. Dr. Fox maintains a website of various treatment interventions focused on working with and attenuating the symptomatology related to individuals along with the antisocial, borderline, narcissistic, and histrionic personality spectrum (www.drdfox.com).
National Approvals
eCare BHI, as the accredited and approved sponsor, maintains responsibility for all the programs and must abide by each board’s continuing education guidelines.

Professional Counselors — The National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC)
E Care Behavioral Health Institute has been approved by NBCC as an approved Continuing Education Provider. ACEP No. 6703. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC are clearly identified. E care Behavioral Health Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Addiction Professionals — NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals (NAADAC)
E Care Behavioral Health Institute is officially on file with NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals (NAADAC) as an Approved Education Provider. They are formally known as NAADAC Provider #139138. Please note that E care Behavioral Health Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.

Social Workers — Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
E Care Behavioral Health Institute, #1706, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. E Care Behavioral Health Institute maintains responsibility for this course.  ACE provider approval period: 06-03-2020 – 06-03-2026.Â

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