Healthcare Training Institute - Quality Education since 1979
CE for Psychologist, Social Worker, Counselor, & MFT!!

Course Learning Objective/Outcomes

By the end of the course, the Counselor, Marriage and Family Therapist, Social Worker or Psychologist will be able to:
-Discuss a review of borderline personality disorder.
-Discuss three principles and clinical application of schema therapy for patients with borderline personality disorder.
-Discuss three dysfunctions in borderline personality disorder.
-Discuss three patterns for emotional switching in borderline personality disorder.
-Discuss four more dysfunctions in borderline personality disorder.
-Explain two characteristics of cognitive-affective system in borderline personality disorder.
-Explain three techniques regarding emotion regulation in bordeline personality disorder.
-Explain what percent of those treated no longer met criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder.
-Explain what is the benefit of writing in the schema journal.
-Explain what is like brainwashing in that it systematically wears away at the victim's self-confidence, sense of self-worth, trust in her perceptions, and self-concept.
-Name four kinds of stress that anger serves to dissipate.
-Explain how do borderlines differ from schizophrenics.
-Name the three models Hartocollis proposes for borderline syndrome.
-Explain what is a main culprit in creating unrealistic patient-therapist relationships from the very beginning of treatment.
-Explain why at times does the BPD patient especially needs to deny the positive aspects of transference.
-Explain what is the problem with using anger to calm the inner critic.
-Name the three key components in the tridimensional personality theory for a client diagnosed with OCD.
-Explain who made up the participants of the study.


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