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Digital Seminar

Telehealth for Clients with Personality Disorders


Faculty:
Daniel J. Fox, Ph.D.
Duration:
2 Hours
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Apr 29, 2020
Product Code:
POS056545
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Access:
Never expires.


Description

Clients with personality disorders are some of those individuals hardest hit with managing a change in clinical structure and environment.

If clients struggle in the physical office, won’t it be worse, less structured, and even more risky for sessions conducted using teletherapy?

It doesn’t have to be.

Join psychologist and personality disorder expert, Dr. Daniel J. Fox, in this 2-hour recording as he prepares you to work with your personality disorder clients using telehealth.

You’ll leave this recording knowing: 

  • What to prep pre-session  
  • How to structure telehealth sessions for personality disorder clients 
  • Specifics of implementing treatment via teletherapy 
  • Unique telehealth treatment issues to consider

CPD


CPD
- PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This online program is worth 2.0 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.

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Daniel J. Fox, Ph.D.'s Profile

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Daniel J. Fox, PhD, is a licensed psychologist in Texas, international speaker, and multiple-award winning author. He has been specializing in the treatment and assessment of individuals with personality disorders for over 20 years in the state and federal prison system, universities, and in private practice. His specialty areas include personality disorders, ethics, burnout prevention, and emotional intelligence. He has published several articles and books in these areas and is the author of the award-winning Narcissistic Personality Disorder Toolbox, The Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment of Personality Disorders, the award-winning Antisocial, Borderline, Narcissistic and Histrionic Workbook: Treatment strategies for Cluster B Personality Disorders, The Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook, and Complex Borderline Personality Disorder.

Dr. Fox has been teaching and supervising students for over 20 years at various universities across the United States, some of which include West Virginia University, Texas A&M University, University of Houston, Sam Houston State University, and Florida State University. He works in the federal prison system, is an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Houston and maintains a private practice that specializes in the assessment and treatment of individuals with complex psychopathology and personality disorders. Dr. Fox has given numerous workshops and seminars on ethics and personality disorders, personality disorders and crime, treatment solutions for working with clients along the antisocial, borderline, narcissistic, and histrionic personality spectrum, emotional intelligence, managing mental health within the prison system, and others. Dr. Fox maintains a website of various treatment interventions focused on working with and attenuating the symptomatology related to individuals along with the antisocial, borderline, narcissistic, and histrionic personality spectrum (www.drdfox.com).

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Daniel Fox maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with the Federal Detention Center and the University of Houston. He receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Daniel Fox receives a speaking honorarium, recording and book royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Daniel Fox has no relevant non-financial relationships.


Outline

Your Guide to Navigating Telehealth Therapy  

  • What methods of teletherapy are available?  
  • How to address connection problems in a therapeutic manner  
  • Assess your client’s interest and willingness to participate   
  • Does one session equal all sessions of teletherapy?   
  • How to integrate key components of CBT, IPT, DBT, IRT, and other treatment applications in a telehealth setting 

Telehealth and the Treatment of Personality Disorders 

  • Identify core and surface structure personality disorder content in your clients and why you need to do it 
  • Assess complex cases and how this changes treatment  
  • Identify and block maladaptive behaviours when using teletherapy 
  • Can you use EVT using teletherapy? 
  • The greatest fear: Managing the suicidal client and teletherapy 

Objectives

  1. Determine what personality disorder issues and concerns are present through core content and surface content identification.   
  2. Evaluate the challenges and utility of teletherapy, inherent ethical pitfalls, legal liability, and effective risk management for clients with personality disorders. 
  3. Develop therapist confidence and success addressing and treating complex personality disorders when using teletherapy.  

Target Audience

  • Counselors 
  • Social Workers 
  • Psychologists 
  • Psychotherapists 
  • Therapists 
  • Addiction Counselors 
  • Marriage and Family Therapists 
  • Case Managers 
  • Nurses 
  • Other Mental Health Professionals 

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