Borderline Personality Disorder

• • Examine the history of the Borderline Personality Disorder diagnosis, the progression of its understanding, and the evolution to its effective management
• • Identify cutting-edge treatment approaches that incorporate the latest in brain and behavior studies
• • Design practical and easy-to-implement management approaches that work with empirically-proven effectiveness
• • Discuss methods to diminish crises, control emergencies, and reduce self-harming behaviors
• • Examine specialized and advanced topics in the treatment of personality disorders, including medication recommendations, liability issues, suicidal behaviors, relationship barriers, and self-care of the practitioner
• • Outline effective techniques and tools for use in the diagnosis and treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder
• • Discover how to best handle and diminish self-harm behaviors and acute and chronic suicidality
• • Assess strategies for reducing emergencies and crises
• • Analyze the types, uses, and effects of medications used in treatment
• • Determine and manage the risks involved in treating Borderline Personality Disorder

Empirically-proven Strategies for Helping Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder

Although the most prominent, well-known, and well-researched of the personality disorders, individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder remain one of the most difficult types of clients for most mental health and social service professionals. Often experienced as exasperating, upsetting, and even impossible, patients with BPD often confuse, frighten, and frustrate clinicians.

It does not need to be this way. Although largely unfamiliar to all but a few specialists in the area, there are new, innovative, and cutting-edge methods that have empirically-proven effectiveness in managing and treating the behavior of this often bewildering client population. By drawing on the most current experience, research, and literature, this seminar offers mental health and social service professionals concise and practical information on treating and managing individuals with this difficult condition.

Presented by Gregory W. Lester, PhD, the widely-acclaimed specialist who has trained more social service personnel on the topic of Personality Disorders than any other professional, this seminar delivers what his trainings are famous for—the most current, clear, practical, realistic, useful, and bottom-line information available on the topic.
Eligible for 6 contact hours. Click on the register button, then CE tab for CEU information.