Description
Imagine your sessions with clients with personality disorders. What comes to mind?
Challenging? Overwhelming? Frustrating?
Kenneth B. Cairns – Rewiring the Brain: Treatment Techniques for Obsessive Compulsive, Narcissistic, Antisocial, and Borderline Personality Disorders
What if you had the tools to make each session feel more productive and that you’re actually making progress?
Discover how you can help your client become:
More emotionally stable
More empathetic
More flexible in the way he/she thinks and reacts to trying situations
Less reactive
All this is possible once you have developed the skills to help your client modify the rigid, maladaptive traits of obsessive compulsive, narcissistic, antisocial, and borderline personality disorders. You can learn how to utilize the motivations and defenses of these disorders to create lasting improvement.
Join Kenneth B. Cairns, Ph.D., as he teaches you practical treatment techniques grounded in cutting-edge neuroscience. Using techniques from DBT, Mindfulness, CBT and EMDR, your clients can learn to rewire their brain and to live a healthier, more stable and productive life.
Handouts
Manual (3.70 MB)
114 Pages
Available after Purchase
Outline
The Development of Personality Disorders
Biology and temperament
Agency and a desire to be affiliated
Anxiety and harm avoidance
Interpersonal Neurobiology – The concept of neural repair and neural integration
Treatment Strategies
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Anxiety and APD
Develop harm avoidance
Utilize active relaxation
Anxiety in disguise: Find anxiety and tame Anger with the anger diary
Anger escalator tools for anger management
Depression and the Antisocial PD
The hidden emotion
Cost-benefit analysis of behaviors
Use HALT tips to modulate expression
Interpersonal Relationship and APD
Turn agency into positive paths
Journaling to identify implicit memory to increase awareness
Train the “wise mind†for better self-control
Storytelling for attunement and empathy
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Anxiety and NPD
Diminish the intensity of harm avoidance
Teach appropriate assertiveness
Worry management strategies
Energy therapies and self-soothing
Dispute irrational fears of humiliation
Depression and NPD
Increase agency
Accept responsibility for vicious circles of grandiosity and loss
Battle grandiosity by increasing achievement
Improving awareness of and attunement to others
Mindfulness techniques and cost-benefit analysis
Interpersonal Relationships and NPD
Using desire for affiliation
Reframe indifference to others and motivate connection with dialectical constructs
Genuine contributions: The path to legitimate self-worth
Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
Anxiety and OCPD
Breaking the rule of harm avoidance
Identify the conflict with inner values
CBT to change worry and rumination
Real self-focusing techniques to find feelings
Discharging anger – the underlying trigger of anxiety
Learning to tolerate anxiety of making mistakes
Breaking free from “technology slaveryâ€
Depression and OCPD
Increase positive agency
Change derogatory self-talk
Interrupt and dispute compulsive behavior
Prescribe fun!
Interpersonal relationships and OCPD
Affiliation and anger
Mindfulness practices to increase attunement to others
â€I†statements and negotiation skills
Deflate resistance to increase self/other honesty
Systems therapy strategies
Eliminate passive aggression
Borderline Personality Disorder: The Quest for Connection
Anxiety and BPD
The forgetfulness of harm avoidance
Fill in skills deficits: Teach and practice conflict resolution skills
Ground techniques to increase emotional stability
Journaling techniques
Depression and the BPD
The forgetfulness of agency
Interrupt self-injurious behavior
EMDR practices to loosen the grip of the past
Minimize catastrophic rumination w/CBT
Interpersonal Relationships
Craving affiliation and its destructive impact
Improve therapeutic relationships
Relationship histories
Practice assertiveness vs aggression
Please Note: PESI is not affiliated or associated with Marsha M. Linehan, PhD, ABPP, or her organizations.
Faculty
Kenneth B. Cairns, Ph.D. Related seminars and products: 1
Kenneth B. Cairns, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist with 25 years of experience conducting and overseeing the delivery of mental health services to individuals with severe mood and personality disorders. Dr. Cairns received his graduate education at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. Since that time, he has spent nearly 19 years providing and overseeing the delivery of mental health services to individuals incarcerated in the Pennsylvania state correctional system. In this capacity, Dr. Cairns has worked with numerous individuals with severe personality and behavioral disorders. At the present time, he oversees the delivery of mental health services to individuals in nine state correctional institutions.
Dr. Cairns has instructed undergraduate coursework in psychology and criminology at the University of Pittsburgh and Seton Hill University. He has also instructed graduate-level courses in behavioral analysis at Waynesburg University. He has trained law enforcement officers, negotiators, psychologists, and allied health care professionals. Dr. Cairns lectures frequently on topics including personality disorders, psychopathy, behavioral analysis, serial killers, mental preparedness, situational awareness, and a variety of other topics.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Kenneth Cairns has an employment relationship with the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Kenneth Cairns has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.
