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Cognitive Therapy for Patients
with Personality Disorders
Powerful Strategies for Overcoming Resistance
and Maximizing Clinical Change
Judith Beck, Ph.D.
 Judith S. Beck, Ph.D., Aaron T. Beck, M.D., and colleagues have extended the application of
cognitive therapy treatment to patients with a variety of personality disorders. These patients require specialized strategies to enable them to make progress in therapy. As the therapist, you must have
a conceptual framework to understand specific disorders and how treatment must be varied to plan therapy effectively. Additionally, you must have a clear working formulation of the individual case to
plan sessions, form a solid working alliance, and help the patient make the behavioral, emotional, and cognitive changes necessary for improvement. Often the same dysfunctional beliefs and disruptive
personality patterns that help maintain psychological distress interfere with the patients ability to learn and change in therapy.
Specific techniques that enable you to educate patients about their beliefs and to test and modify rigid thinking patterns are particularly valuable when working with personality disorders. This workshop will
address problems common to patients with personality disorders: missing sessions, failing to do homework, jumping from crisis to crisis, displaying anger toward the therapist, and
showing low motivation for change, to name a few. Participants will learn a variety of diagnosis-specific techniques for working with the most challenging Axis II patients. Dr.
Beck’s teaching strategies actively engage you through hands-on participation which includes discussion of cases, role-playing, imaginal exercises, viewing of videotapes, and feedback on conceptualization worksheets.
Workshop Objectives
Attend this powerful workshop and enhance your ability to:
- Conceptualize personality disorder patients according to the cognitive model
- Plan treatment for personality disorder patients across sessions and within sessions
- Establish a sound therapeutic alliance
- Choose effective strategies to modify core beliefs or dysfunctional beliefs
- Diagnose and remediate problems in therapy
Workshop Information
Check-in begins at 7:45 AM and the workshop hours are 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM with lunch on your own from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM. There will be two fifteen minute breaks.
Earn 6 CE/CME Hours
Current Dates and Locations
Please see Calendar Page
Registration Information
$149 Early registration (sent 14 days prior to workshop)
$169 Regular registration (on-site reg. is $189, space available)
Aide positions must be filled by phone, fax or mail. Please call for availability.
To register by phone call 800-258-8411. Or register online on the Calendar Page
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