Personality Disorders in Social Work & Health Care

Complete Seminar Details

Learn the most current and comprehensive information available about personality disorders. Completely updated and presented by a nationally noted author and speaker.

Although frequently acknowledged to be the largest and fastest growing mental health issue, few professionals are trained to identify, assess and intervene in cases that involve personality disorders. These disorders are almost always the driving force behind stalled treatment; stressful and frustrating case management; and confusing, resistive, unmanageable, "difficult" or high-risk clients. Without understanding the phenomenon of personality disorders, a practitioner's effectiveness is greatly diminished. Ineffective interventions and unnecessarily high levels of fatigue, stress, confusion and frustration can result.

This seminar offers the most current and comprehensive information available about personality disorders. Designed for practitioners who know very little about the phenomenon as well as those with highly developed assessment and intervention skills, attendees will gain new understanding and skills and will learn powerful interventions for the management and treatment of their most difficult and frustrating cases -- those involving personality disorders.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• Social Workers
• Supervisors, Practitioners
• Case Managers
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Counselors
• Drug and Alcohol Counselors
• Psychologists
• Nurses
• Home Health Care Personnel
• Nursing Home Personnel
• Anyone responsible for the management or treatment of social work cases

"Although your magnificent reputation preceded you, your talk was beyond all our expectations." - Ann Genaro, Coordinator of Educational Services, NY State Assoc. of Community and Residential Agencies

WHAT YOU WILL COVER

• Identification and assessment of personality disorders
• Understanding the causes and effects
• Effective management and treatment strategies
• Personality disorders in youth, marriage and families
• Presented by Gregory Lester, Ph.D., nationally noted author and speaker
• How to identify and assess personality disorders
• The most current and up-to-date interventions
• Specific, powerful techniques for management and treatment
• How to help the spouses, partners, children and parents
• How to keep yourself from being distressed

Sponsor Background:

Leading the Way in Professional Development.

Cross Country Education is a national leader in high-quality educational products and services for the entire health care industry. Our seminars and training programs are designed to help health care providers achieve improved performance and results in all areas of clinical, financial and operational management. Our faculty of more than 150 instructors are the "best of the best" in their field of expertise and know how to provide programs that really make a difference to participants.

Since 1995, we have trained over 1,000,000 providers, managers, nurses, behavioral health professionals and other key personnel throughout the entire healthcare industry. We produce over 5,000 seminars and conferences annually for the health care industry. Plus, we coordinate in-house training for health care facilities. Let us provide your training and professional education needs!

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