Kristina Hallett – Rewiring the Brain, Treatment Techniques for Obsessive Compulsive

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Kristina Hallett – Rewiring the Brain, Treatment Techniques for Obsessive Compulsive

Imagine your sessions with clients with personality disorders.
What comes to mind?
Challenging? Overwhelming? Frustrating?
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 in 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. In this recording, Kristina Hallett, Ph.D. 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 to live a healthier, more stable and productive life.

Select therapeutic methods for neural repair based on the neuroscience of implicit traits and temperamental characteristics of 5 personality disorders.
Teach clients with Antisocial Personality Disorder how to manage impulsivity and high-risk behavior through training of the “wise mind.”
Develop dialectical constructs to enhance awareness and motivation in narcissistic clients.
Incorporate techniques that help the Obsessive-Compulsive Personality identify and express emotion.
Determine how borderline clients should use journaling techniques to discover and work through implicit memories that create mood and behavioral instability.
Integrate tools from EMDR to help all clients move past obstacles posed by histories of trauma or abuse.

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Part 1: 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

Part II: Treatment Strategies
I. 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

II. 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

III. 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 slavery”

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
”I” statements and negotiation skills
Deflate resistance to increase self/other honesty
Systems therapy strategies
Eliminate passive aggression

IV. 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

Limitations of the Research and Potential Treatment Risks

RCT’s, efficacy studies and related research
Thinking outside the box, while maintaining a scientific basis
Tried and true treatment strategies

Please Note: PESI is not affiliated or associated with Marsha M. Linehan, PhD, ABPP, or her organizations.