Unmasking Manipulative Relationships: Effective Strategies for Countering Covert Abuse

• •Analyze emotional regulation challenges, interpersonal behaviors, and manipulative strategies related to borderline personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder


• •Distinguish and recognize characteristics and causes of codependency


• •Describe the dysfunctional roleplay between emotional manipulators and codependents


• •Apply techniques to support and advise clients on how to protect themselves and cope in these destructive relationships


• •Examine effective interventions and measures of progress to use with manipulators and codependents

Emotional manipulators and codependents in relationships are in a highly destructive and thoroughly unhealthy dynamic; yet these relationships are very common. The attraction of these two types of individuals seems random and coincidental, but is actually a waltz of familiarity, which can be very intoxicating and extremely difficult to unravel. This seminar identifies and examines both the characteristics of the emotional manipulator as well as the codependent and discusses the emotional radar that entices these two individuals into these damaging relationships.

Explore the dysfunctional role play between emotional manipulators and codependents, including the continuous cycle of chaos that exists, the intoxicating nature of the relationship, and how difficult it is to break free from these relationships. Investigate the patterns that emotional manipulators use to influence and draw in codependents. And identify factors that contribute to developing emotionally manipulative disorders and codependency, ways these patterns can be broken, and whether recovery is possible. At the end of the program, you will leave with specific techniques to support and advise clients while measuring successful change.