CPD Certificate in Understanding Personality Disorders: Beyond the Label
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About this event
Designed to benefit Professionals where your work brings you into contact with individuals suffering from interpersonal difficulties labelled as “Personality Disorders”. Viewed beyond the label, this lens will give you the necessary tools for understanding specific personal dynamics involved from an integrative approach. You will gain awareness and essential knowledge, building a solid platform upon which to engage in effective therapeutic or working relationships.
7 hours CPD
Topics covered
- NHS Diagnosis Clusters A, B and C Personality Disorders
- Understanding Narcissistic, Borderline, Antisocial, Histrionic Personality Disorder Symptoms
- Difference between OCD and Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder
- Relational approaches that work and why others are not recommended
- Identifying the correct action to take if an individual is suffering from an undiagnosed Disorder
- Managing challenging behaviour within yourself, clients, patients and colleagues
- Assessments, Boundaries, Complaints and Referral Services
Related Theory
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Gestalt, Attachment, Object Relations, Transactional Analysis integrated into Humanistic-Existential practice.
Suitable for
Counsellors, psychotherapists, nurses, social workers, personal trainers, life coaches, teachers, human resources, managers, support workers, and all other health care professionals
Organiser Journey to the Self Workshops
Organiser of CPD Certificate in Understanding Personality Disorders: Beyond the Label
Our aim in our work together is to create a safe space for experiential learning to build professional knowledge around mental health, facilitating personal development, enhancing personal, therapeutic and working relationships.
We are humanistic-existential therapists, supervisors, teachers and facilitators, who have worked together for several years initially training a Stage 4 BACP Accredited Counselling Diploma.
Amanda Perl is an Existential Psychotherapist, Counsellor, CBT Practitioner and University Lecturer. Specialisms include personality disorders, addictions, emotional abuse, relationship issues, anger, eating disorders, mindfulness, anxiety and depression.
Ian Rattray is an Integrative Counsellor and Therapist whose interests and experience include attachment, relationship and couples therapy, creative arts and experiential therapies working in local services and organisations, schools and the NHS in addition to private practice.
