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