Certificate in understanding personality disorders - beyond the label

Join our structured and experiential workshop, 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. Awareness and essential knowledge gained provides a solid platform upon which to engage in effective therapeutic or working relationships.

Topics covered

• NHS diagnosis clusters A, B, and C personality disorders
• understanding narcissistic, borderline, antisocial, and 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
• all other health care professionals