The Association for NPD/Psychopathy Survivor Treatment, Research & Education is proud to announce the release of our six hour CE therapist training ‘Narcissistic and Psychopathic Abuse: The Clinician’s Guide to the New Field of Traumatic Pathological Love Relationships’ with PESI, the world’s largest mental/behavioral health CE provider.
We thank you for your patience as we have worked long and hard on developing a training that widely includes clinical, pathology-oriented, and trauma-focused curricula. This training is a core element training which is required to take other training programs that will be also offered in the future through The Association on specific session content for a 12-15 session approach (check back to this page—coming soon). On schedule for future training is also how to use Accelerated Reduction Therapy, NLP and Hypnosis in sessions.
The workshop will be a live online training with PESI on January 15, 2021.
The link to the workshop is:
https://catalog.pesi.com/item/69996/?_ga=2.97769823.1753606320.1605132800-1587360062.1603800609#outline
There will be CEs offered for a fee. You can check the PESI website for disciplines covered. The page for the workshop will soon also list CE available (it currently says, ‘coming soon’).
Course Outline
Pathological Love Relationships
- Pathological Love Relationship (PLR) definition
- PLR theory and its influences from other fields and disciplines
- Differentiating these relationships and abusers from others
- Research and treatment limitations
Personality Disorders and Their Application to Pathological Love Relationships
- How to spot a Pathological Love Relationship
- Identifying Pathological Love Relationships through personality and personality disorders
- The DSM Alternative Model about personality disorders and interpersonal risk
- Significance of partner pathology as ‘pervasive’ and the relevance to survivor’s understanding
- Problems identifying Pathological Love Relationships
- How to identify relational pathology from the DSM-5 four impairments
Relational Dynamics and Stages of PLRs
- DSM descriptions used as one of the identifiers in spotting a Pathological Love Relationship
- Stages of Pathological Love Relationships
- Pre-Stage— trolling, luring and predatory targeting tactics
- Early Stage— manufactured intensity and reflective relational tactics
- Mid-Phase —when the mask slips
- End relationship dynamics
Survivor Personalities and Targeted Traits:
Critical Considerations for Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment
- Who these survivors are NOT
- Survivor personality super trait elevations and its importance in targeting and recovery
- Agreeableness and cooperation: the relationship investment trait
- Conscientiousness and self-directedness: the integrity-oriented life traits
- Misidentification/misdiagnosis of personality ‘Super Traits’
- Codependency, dependent PD, borderline PD, empaths
Trauma Symptoms and the Aftermath of Narcissistic Abuse:
Atypical Presentations of Trauma and Keys to Treating the Survivor
- How these survivors' symptoms can be different
- ‘Atypical’ trauma and misdiagnosis
- Cognitive dissonance and its presentation in survivors
- Difference in chronic and persistent CD— not your college understanding
- Cognitive dissonance and its connection to PTSD intensification
- Trauma treatment and further treatment issues
Therapists who complete the PESI training and our soon-to-be-released Clinical Sessions training are eligible to be placed on our Therapist Referral Database. (Trauma certification is required. This is trauma ‘work.’)
We hope you will become part of a rapidly growing new genre of counseling!
Sincerely,
The Association for NPD/Psychopathy Survivor Treatment, Research & Education