Narcissism: Problems and Solutions for Mental Health Providers - REGISTRATION CLOSED
6 CE Hours
April 5, 2024
6 CE Hours
9:00 am - 4:15 pm ET
Live Interactive Webinar
Seminar Description
This webinar addresses the challenges of treating clients with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD), emphasizing the time-consuming yet intriguing nature of such cases. Beyond the narcissistic clients themselves, therapists often find themselves working with partners and children who have developed issues from relationships with individuals along the narcissistic spectrum. The prevalence of narcissism in various settings, including treatment offices and workplaces, necessitates a broader understanding of associated behaviors and symptomatology. The seminar focuses on equipping mental health professionals with the skills to effectively manage and work with narcissistic spectrum clients, their partners, and their children. Dr Fox will focus on the unique challenges posed by partners in narcissistic spectrum relationships, providing specific therapeutic approaches. Additionally, the webinar also addresses the complex symptoms exhibited by children of narcissistic spectrum parents and offers tools and techniques to help them overcome burdens and achieve positive change. The Webinar promises a unique, enjoyable, and impactful learning experience for professionals seeking to enhance their ability to navigate the complexities of treating individuals along the narcissistic spectrum and their families.
Objectives
Participants will be able to:
· Discriminate how to formulate a treatment strategy to achieve positive outcomes for individuals along the narcissistic spectrum.
· Integrate evidence-based techniques to address and modify maladaptive patterns in clients on the narcissistic spectrum, as well as their partners and children.
· Identify proficiency in guiding narcissistic spectrum clients, their partners, and their children towards acquiring adaptive relationship skills while managing maladaptive relationship patterns.
· Restructure the elements that anchor partners in narcissistic spectrum relationships, promoting resilience against manipulative behaviors.
· Identify the type and impact of various narcissistic spectrum parent categories to enhance treatment effectiveness.
· Describe proficient assessment, management, and treatment skills concerning children of parents on the narcissistic spectrum.
Agenda
9:00 am Narcissistic Treatment Foundations
- Five central components to accurate narcissistic diagnosis
- Core and/or surface structure of the narcissistic spectrum
- Narcissistic symptom expression
- Healthy and pathological narcissism
- Pathological continuum, treatment errors, and speaking narcissism
- Five categories of therapeutic responses to narcissism
- Therapist reactions to narcissism
- Psychopharmacology and narcissism
10:30 am Break
10:45 am Treating the Narcissistic Individual Client
- What are you doing here? Narcissists don’t seek treatment
- To treat or not to treat: The distinction and overlap between NPD and Antisocial PD
- Distinction between entitlement and narcissistic personality disorder
- Narcissistic personality disorder subtypes
- Managing narcissistic power struggles
- The veneer of perfectionism
- Narcissistic reaction from stress to rage
- Doing it differently
- Strengthen appropriate social potency
- Conceptualizing successful treatment
12:15 am Lunch Break
1:00 pm Treating the Partner of a Narcissist
- Treating the invisible client
- What is and what may never be and challenging foundational beliefs
- Identifying the narcissistic self-serving significant other (SO)
- Breaking the cycle of Glorifying, Belittling, and Abandoning
- Clarifying and maintaining boundaries
- Managing and lessening gaslighting
- Fear and beliefs that sustain core content
- Becoming untethered to the narcissist
- Together or apart
- Stay who you are
2:30 pm Break
2:45pm Treating the Impact of Narcissistic Parents
- Narcissistic family characteristics
- The narcissistic parent identified
- Components of adult children of narcissists
- Avoid “The Family Crucible” trap
- The narcissistic parent and self-definition
- A duck in the rain
- Differentiation of child from parent
- Parenting differently
- The family dynamic influencers
4:15 pm Program Ends