Unmasking Manipulative Disorders: Assessments, Strategies, & Interventions

• Differentiate and recognize client symptom presentation, treatment, and management of the manipulative client
• Analyze emotional regulation challenges, interpersonal behaviors, and manipulative strategies related to borderline, narcissistic, antisocial, and histrionic personality disorders
• Explain how to interpret, respond to, recognize and prevent self-harming and suicidal behaviors
• Describe how to manage manipulative symptomatology and how this can assist with treatment planning and reduction of symptoms
• Describe characteristics and vulnerabilities of victims of emotional abuse
• Identify the relationship between addiction and manipulative disorders
• Examine effective interventions and measures of progress to use with manipulative clients

Join expert, Ellen Biros, MS, LCSW, as she delivers an intensive seminar designed to provide you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to accurately identify and treat your most difficult, manipulative clients. Examine the critical factors and components to accurately diagnose manipulative clients and manage the calculated behaviors and power struggles. Decipher the covert tactics of antisocial, narcissistic, histrionic, and borderline clients, identify the characteristics and vulnerabilities of their victims, and finally make a breakthrough in clinical treatment. Case studies and examples will be used to illustrate client symptom presentation, treatment, and management of manipulative clients and you will walk away with solid, useable skills to include in your daily practice.