Overview:
Working with Cluster C personality disorders is a critical aspect of clinical practice. These clients often present with behaviors that can challenge even the most experienced clinicians, leading to feelings of frustration and burnout. In this seminar, you will gain valuable insights and strategies from an experienced clinician who has successfully worked with individuals across the Cluster C spectrum, which includes avoidant, dependent, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders. Enhance your professional skills, fortify your resilience, and establish robust boundaries to bring about positive therapeutic change while maintaining your well-being in this challenging clinical domain.
Utilizing case studies and other clinical examples, we will showcase client symptoms, conceptualization, complex presentations, and treatment strategies for each of these personality disorder types.
Dr. Fox will help you integrate and expand upon elements from evidence-based modalities, including Schema Therapy, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Interpersonal Therapy (IPT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). This approach will enable you to cultivate practical skills tailored to the individual needs of your professional practice.
Objectives:
- Recognize at least two subtle differences in Cluster C personality disorder diagnoses.
- Identify and diagnose clients with avoidant, dependent, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders, ensuring informed choices in treatment interventions.
- Distinguish overlapping symptoms among Cluster C personality disorders
- Identify at least one effective treatment for Cluster C personality disorders.
- Address therapy-interfering behaviors specific to each personality disorder, enhancing the application of several evidence-based treatments (EBTs) to improve treatment planning and adherence.
- Apply at least two (2) techniques aimed at reducing anxiety, compulsive behaviors, and dependency into impactful treatment approaches.Â
- Utilize Motivational Interviewing (MI) and DBT techniques when working with clients diagnosed with Cluster C personality disorders, aiming to manage cognition and enhance emotional regulation.
Scope and Limitations Disclosure
This webinar provides an overview of assessment and treatment strategies for Cluster C personality disorders, including avoidant, dependent, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders. The course draws on concepts from evidence-based modalities such as CBT, DBT, IPT, and Schema Therapy, with the goal of enhancing clinical understanding and practical skill development. It is intended for licensed mental health professionals with foundational training in psychotherapy. While the course presents integrated strategies and clinical tools, it does not offer formal certification in any of the treatment modalities discussed and is not a substitute for modality-specific advanced training or supervision. All content should be applied within the clinician’s professional scope of practice and in accordance with relevant ethical and licensing standards.
Commercial Support Disclosure
Dr. Daniel J. Fox is the author of multiple publications on personality disorders, including The Clinician’s Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment of Personality Disorders, The Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook, and Narcissistic Personality Disorder Toolbox. These works may be referenced during the course to support educational content; however, there is no requirement to purchase any additional materials to complete this training. Dr. Fox has no other relevant financial relationships or commercial support 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).
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