Personality Disorders - FPN

EMDR Therapy: Treating OCD and Related Disorders

POPULAR, 5 CREDIT, ONLINE CE COURSE

Edited by a leading EMDR scholar and practitioner, the course content delivers step-by-step protocols that enable practitioners
to enhance their expertise more quickly when treating clients or groups of clients with these conditions. For each topic, the authors
include relevant questions for history taking, helpful resources and explanations, frequently used negative and positive cognitions,
and information on case conceptualization and treatment planning.

The CE course is for practitioners who have had some experience with EMDR, and it is designated as intermediate to advanced.

1.  DSM5 - Personality Disorder: Diagnostic Criteria
Personality disorders are associated with ways of thinking and feeling about oneself and others that
significantly and adversely affect how an individual functions in many aspects of life.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY

2.   Personality Disorders: Review and Clinical Application in Daily Practice
Personality disorders have been documented in approximately 9 percent of the general U.S. population. Psychotherapy, pharmacotherapy, and brief interventions designed for use by family physicians can improve the health of patients with these disorders.
AMERICAN FAMILY PHYSICIAN

3. Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Diagnostic and Clinical Challenges
Narcissistic personality disorder is prevalent, highly comorbid with other disorders, and associated with significant functional impairment and psychosocial disability.
AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION (APA)

4. Borderline Personality Disorder
Some people with BPD also have high rates of co-occurring mental disorders, such as mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and eating disorders, along with substance abuse, self-harm, suicidal thinking and behaviors, and suicide.
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (NIH)

5. Psychotherapy for Suicidal Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder
This article reviews established literature on approaches to the psychotherapy of borderline personality disorder with specific reference to suicide in order to determine if there were common factors across these efforts that would guide future teaching, practice and research.
BIOMEDCENTRAL (BMC)

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 ETHICS IN COUNSELING: STAYING ON TRACK - 4 Credit CE

What are the common ethical errors for therapists?

This practical CE course examines ethical issues related to developing and maintaining clinical excellence. The authors discuss how to avoid many ethical errors in mental health work, including those related to technology in the therapeutic relationship. The content of this CE program is adapted from the text, Counseling Ethics: Philosophical and Professional Foundations, by Springer Publishing Company.

Learning Objectives:

1. Use countertransference productively in the therapeutic relationship
2. Identify and apply ethical standards in therapy
3. Discuss the most common ethical errors for therapists
4. Recognize what kinds of information should be included in client records
5. Identify common ethical concerns related to technology and counseling
   

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6. Narcissism and the Use of Personal Pronouns Revisited
Excessive self-focus is thought to form the core of narcissism, an important psychological phenomenon with broad interpersonal consequences.
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (APA)

7. Facing a Rising Tide of Personality Disorders
Prevailing wisdom gives the apparent surge in personality disorders a generational genesis — a seeming groundswell of millennials disproportionately beset by narcissistic, histrionic and borderline tendencies.
COUNSELING TODAY

8. Therapeutic Factors in Treatment of Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder
Some patients require intermittent care during the entire course of their lives, much as patients with chronic serious physical disorders do.
JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY DISORDERS

9. In The Realm of Personality Disorders
Social workers are reluctant to identify personality disorders, because of a common belief that the disorders are untreatable. 
THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER

10. Long-Term Course of Borderline Personality Disorder
The currently favored treatment methods showed in a large percentage of patients, a lessening of these self-destructive behaviors after a year or two of treatment.
JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY DISORDERS

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