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CE for Psychologist, Social Worker, Counselor, & MFT!!

Course Learning Objectives/Outcomes

By the end of the course, the Counselor, Marriage and Family Therapist, Social Worker or Psychologist will be able to:
-Explain three diagnostic criteria for borderline personality disorder.
-Discuss three aspects of dialectical behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder.
-Discuss three rejection paradigm in borderline personality disorder.
-Discuss two types of relationship instability in borderline personality disorder.
-Discuss four methods of psychological control in borderline personality disorder.
-Discuss three aspects of borderline personality disorder and depression.
-Explain three effects of childhood abuse on adult borderline personality disorder.
-Discuss three aspects of communication for borderline personality disorder marital partner.
-Discuss three steps regarding reactivity to perceptions in borderline personality disorder.
-Explain three techniques regarding interpersonal functioning in borderline personality disorder.
-Describe negative perspective in borderline personality disorder.
-Discuss two aspects of self-esteem instability in borderline personality disorder.
-Discuss two characteristics of mentalizing as treatment in borderline personality disorder.
-Discuss two parenting behaviors in borderline personality disorder.
-Name three reasons to treat BPD using IPT.
-Name the six changes from what IPT were originally developed for involved in adapting IPT for BPD.
-Name the two core conflicts of borderline personality disorder.
-Explain a key to disrupting the interactional pattern of the therapist enacting the patient’s internal representation.
-Name six important guidelines for psychodynamic therapy with a BPD client.
-Name four common sentiments shared by staff caring for BPD inpatients.
-Explain a key difference in boundary difficulties occurring in BPD clients and schizophrenic clients.
-Name two recommendations does Fowler make regarding addressing a BPD client’s self-mutilating behavior.
-Name the four categories of patient-therapist attachment on the AAI.
-Name three concepts has client-therapist attachment been linked.
-Name three situations in which therapeutic distancing may be considered.
-Name four skills taught to clients in Dialectical Behavior Therapy.
-Explain some examples of symptomatic behavior for (BPD).


"The instructional level of this course is introductory, intermediate, or advanced depending on the learners clinical area of expertise."