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Exploring the Essential Features of “Lane Pederson & Gregory Lester – DBT & Personality Disorder Dual Certification Course: Targeted Treatment for Clinical Challenges”
My greatest therapeutic challenge became my biggest success.
It was my first client diagnosed with borderline personality disorder — it’s hard to think of an obstacle this client didn’t present.
Depression, self-harm, extreme isolation, chronic anxiety, panic attacks, poor relationships & hygiene…
Progress was slow. I couldn’t get her to take lessons from therapy outside of the room. I finally convinced her to join my DBT group… something dramatic happened.
The intensity behind her borderline symptoms became radically redirected. She began to complete homework, meet hygiene goals, mend important relationships… Eventually, she got her first job and romantic partner!
Astonishing, isn’t it? Decades later, I’m still proud of my progress with this client. That’s why I’ve developed this absolutely essential DBT & Personality Disorders certification course with PESI.
I’m inviting you to join me and more than 10,000 of your colleagues who I’ve already trained to become an expert on treating difficult clients.
Get evidenced-based interventions from DBT, gain new insight into personality disorders, and the expertise to integrate this knowledge — so you can tailor treatment to each unique clients’ needs.
You want to look back on your career as a therapist and know that you offered your clients something real — therapy that changes their lives.
Warmly,
Lane Pedersen, PhD
P.S. — If you take this chance to advance your practice we’ll cover the cost of both certifications!
If you’re ready to:
- Advance your knowledge in one of the most in-demand approaches
- Stand out to employers, colleagues and attract new clients
- Build your confidence treating some of the most challenging diagnoses on your caseload
All while improving the lives of your clients & enhancing therapy outcomes beyond the last session!
Course Outline
Personality Disorder Certification Training
Gregory W. Lester, Ph.D.
Dr. Lester is a clinical, consulting, and research psychologist that presents over 2,000 personality disorders trainings to more than 200,000 professionals yearly. In his 40 years of clinical practice, Dr. Lester has treated over 1,000 personality disorder cases and has performed psychological evaluations on more than 2,500 individuals. Learn from him how to:
- Stop the rotating door of therapy — keep clients making gains well beyond the last session
- Apply evidence-based interventions to make therapy easier for you AND your client
- Shut-down therapy interring behaviors to keep sessions on track
- Approach therapy with “disordered” versus “normal” personalities and WHY it matters
Pre-Therapy Essentials
- Breaking traditional models of mental health
- “Normal” vs disordered personalities
- The impact of a chronic condition
- Is it really everybody else?
- How to replace “normal” talk with effective communication
The Effects of Personality Disorders
- Difficulties for themselves & loved ones
- Predict behaviors
- Cluster A personality disorders
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- Paranoid
- Schizoid
- Schizotypal
- Cluster B personality disorders
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- Antisocial
- Borderline
- Histrionic
- Narcissistic
- Cluster C personality disorders
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- Avoidant
- Dependent
- Obsessive-Compulsive
Assessment and Diagnosis
- Diagnosis is EVERYTHING
- 5 steps to identification & diagnosis
- Impact of misunderstanding etiology
- Your single biggest clinical mistake
- The cause of personality disorders
- Treating vs. managing
- Make an accurate prognosis
- How to choose the best intervention
- Develop effective treatment goals for all Clusters
Empirically Validated Intervention Approaches
- Interventions Based on “Treatability”
- Optimal functioning
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- Mentalization-Based Treatment
- Transference-Focused Psychotherapy
- Interpersonal Reconstructive Psychotherapy
- Object Relations Developmental Psychotherapy
- Adequate functioning
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- Dialectical Behavior Therapy
- Schema-Based Treatment
- Personality-Guided Psychotherapy
- Targeted behavior improvement
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- Tactical Therapy
- Strategic Therapy
- Structural Therapy
- Limitations and risks
- 4-Step treatment approach
- 3-Step manage approach
- 3 Must-have intervention
Special Issues with Personality Disorders
- Interventions for Co-occurring Conditions
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- Typical co-occurring disorders for the 10 subtypes
- Sequencing interventions
- Medication do’s and don’ts
- Crisis Management: Self-Harm and Suicide Interventions
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- Fundamental misunderstandings
- Physiological effects and motivations
- Reduce or eliminate self-harm
- Harvard’s 3 distinctions of suicidality
- Interventions for chronic & acute suicidality
- Unique Considerations
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- Modifications for Children & Adolescents
- Couples and family therapy
- Working with significant others
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- Methods to help them stay out of difficulties
- Coach for effective management
- Self-care for significant others
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy Certification Training
Lane Pederson, PsyD, LP, C-DBT
Lane Pederson, PsyD, LP, C-DBT, has provided Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) training and consultation to over 10,000 professionals internationally. A master practitioner, Dr. Pederson has developed DBT programs for adolescents, adults, people with dual disorders, and people with developmental disabilities. From this incredible expert you’ll learn how to:
- Intensive training on DBT foundations & nuanced application of technique
- Customize treatment while staying true to the evidenced-base model of DBT
- Get clients to do their homework — consistently!
- Apply DBT to unique clinical populations — BIPOC & more!
DBT Models: Basics & Beyond
- Six decades of empirical research
- Modes and Formats
- Evidence-Based Practices versus treatments
- Maximizing therapeutic factors
- Biosocial theory of difficulties
- How theory drives therapy
- Update to theory: RO-DBT
Starting Out: Commitment Strategies & Therapy Structure
- A multi-layered approach
- Commitment as exposure therapy
- Difference from normalization
- Communication styles: reciprocal & irreverent
- Structure as a therapeutic factor
- Create the optimal therapy environment
- Follow the stages of treatment
- Treatment targets: suicidality, self-injury, therapy-interfering behavior & more
Four Pillars of DBT
- Mindfulness
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- What skills: observe describe, participate
- How skills: nonjudgmental, one-mindful, effectively
- Mindfulness practice and application
- Distress Tolerance
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- How to utilize the wise mind
- IMPROVE the moment
- Pros and cons
- Radical acceptance/turning the mind
- Emotional regulation
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- PLEASED
- Build positive experiences
- Opposite action
- Interpersonal Effectiveness
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- FAST skills
- GIVE skills
- DEAR MAN skills
Diary Cards & Behavior Analysis
- The foundational skills
- Adapted for special populations
- Getting the client on board
- Build awareness and options
- Bridge into solution analysis
Supplemental and Updated Skills
- Urge surfing & bridge burning
- TIP
- Exposure techniques
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- When to use
- Standard protocols
- Alternatives to exposure
- Behavioral principals & best models
- Contingency procedures
- DBT-style cognitive interventions
- Special populations: children, adolescents, SUDs
Suicidality Management & Hospitalization
- When is self-injury life-threatening?
- Creating alternatives to self-harm
- Suicide assessment techniques
- Safety plans and commitments
- Effective versus contra-indicated hospitalization
- Manage level of care transitions
Consultation & Treatment Teams
- Increase motivation & collaboration
- Develop effective responses
- Cultivate effective treatment teams
- Develop your action plan
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