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Zumbro Valley Mental Health Center 315 Elton Hills Drive NW Rochester MN 55901 Phone: 507-287-1443 / Fax: 507-281-6253 |
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Constructing a New Self: A New Paradigm for Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders
About this workshop
“Excellence in Psychotherapy” Workshop Series
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Dr. Christine Padesky Workshop Presenter |
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About This Workshop |
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For over fifteen years, Drs. Christine A. Padesky & Kathleen A. Mooney have been actively working on helping clients overcome persistent problems. Their work has culminated in a new paradigm where the focus is on construction of NEW belief systems and interpersonal behavior patterns. It can be used with clients with diverse combinations of personality disorder diagnoses and is usually implemented after standard CBT methods have been used to treat Axis I mood problems such as depression or anxiety.
There is growing evidence that cognitive therapy is an effective treatment for personality disorders. However, each case can seem to require a different treatment plan. Development of straightforward treatment protocols is hampered by the diversity of presenting problems within groups of clients with similar personality diagnoses. In addition, most clients who meet diagnostic criteria for one personality disorder meet criteria for two or more personality disorders.
This workshop approaches these dilemmas by teaching therapy skills that are necessary across all personality disorder diagnostic combinations. The skills chosen help therapists successfully navigate five critical tasks essential to cognitive therapy of personality disorder. The first two tasks are necessary for successful treatment of both Axis I and Axis II presenting problems:
· Establish and maintain a collaborative relationship regardless of client personality style.
· Employ constructive communication in times of therapy impasse and conflict.
The final three tasks illustrate the cognitive paradigm for treatment of personality disorders that Dr. Padesky has been actively developing over the past fifteen years:
· Help clients recognize the benefits of personality change.
· Guide clients to construct a “new” system of personality that is desirable to them.
· Build new beliefs and interpersonal skills that strengthen and sustain the new personality system.
Whether you want to learn more about working with a specific personality disorder (e.g., borderline personality disorder), a particular type of impasse (e.g., avoidance, rigidity or angry attacks), or your own reactions (e.g., irritation with a particular client), this workshop is designed to enhance your understanding and skills.
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Workshop Objectives
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
· Employ a structured interview to help clients compassionately conceptualize their OLD system. · Identify, develop, & strengthen NEW systems of underlying assumptions, core beliefs, and behavioral strategies. · Organize therapy interventions with an OLD/NEW conceptualization worksheet. · Set up and debrief behavioral experiments in ways that build and strengthen the NEW systems.
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