- Identify and manage critical factors associated with the stage of treatment for clients with antisocial, narcissistic, and borderline pathology.
- Identify and counter maladaptive patterns that often disrupt your clients’ lives and thwart successful treatment.
- Apply evidence-based treatment modalities in your practice and produce therapeutic change.
- Implement techniques to address surface and core maladaptive patterns in your clients and perpetuation of success strategies for your clients.
Effective Strategies for Therapeutic Success in Clients with Borderline, Narcissistic and Antisocial Personality Disorders
Dr. Daniel J. Fox, Psychologist
Master evidence-based protocols for treating borderline, narcissistic & antisocial personality disorders with safety strategies & dimensional frameworks
Excerpt:
- 3h of continuing education
- 24 lessons that last from 5 to 15 minutes each
- 1 certificate of achievement
- 1 PowerPoint
- 1 bibliography
- 1 course evaluation
- 7-day money back guarantee
- Unlimited access
- 91% of participants who completed the satisfaction survey declare they would recommend this course to a colleague
Overview
We can all think of clients that have challenged our skills and professional efficacy. More often than not, these clients tended to fall along the personality disorder spectrum, specifically the antisocial, narcissistic, or borderline spectrum.
In this presentation, the renowned Dr. Fox will break down these pathologies into workable constructs to help you achieve therapeutic gains and success with ease and clarity of mind.
You will learn to:
- Assess severity and select interventions matched to treatment stage
- Distinguish surface structure from core pathology using validated frameworks
- Implement safety protocols for managing violence risk and suicidal presentations
- Apply motivator-based strategies tailored to individual pathology drivers
- Recognize critical subtypes including covert narcissism and psychopathy markers
- Address impulsivity, interpersonal dysfunction, and affective dysregulation systematically
You will examine the affective-impulsive continuum that organizes borderline, narcissistic, antisocial, and histrionic presentations. This dimensional approach will clarify why certain clients respond to specific interventions while others require modified protocols. You will apply concrete techniques for managing countertransference, resisting manipulation, and maintaining therapeutic boundaries under pressure.
The course integrates clinical case examples, neuroscience findings on psychopathy and callous-unemotional traits, and gender-informed assessment considerations.
You will leave with a clinical toolkit that translates complex personality pathology into workable treatment targets. These evidence-based strategies will strengthen your capacity to produce therapeutic change with clients who have previously plateaued or deteriorated in treatment. You will gain clarity on prognosis indicators, helping you set realistic expectations while maximizing intervention effectiveness across the personality disorder spectrum.
Accreditation
Short title: Therapeutic Success Strategies for Borderline, Narcissistic & Antisocial Disorders
Ordre des Psychologues du Québec
Canadian Psychological Association
Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association
Collège des médecins du Québec
For physicians who practice psychotherapy, training recognized by the Ordre des psychologues du Québec is automatically considered as activities adopted by the Collège des médecins, in accordance with Article 3 of the Regulation.
For physicians who do not practice psychotherapy, the College evaluates each recognition request based on the following criteria:
- the relevance of the activity to the practice of the profession
- the skills and experience of the trainer
- the quality of the content and its adequacy with the physician's practice
- the pedagogical framework of the activity
- the quality of the documentation provided
- compliance with the training objectives set out in the regulation
- the presence of a certificate of participation or an evaluation
About the expert
Dr. Daniel J. Fox is a licensed psychologist specializing in personality disorder assessment and treatment for over 20 years across state and federal prison systems, university settings, and private practice. His clinical expertise encompasses the full spectrum of Cluster B pathology, with particular focus on complex cases involving antisocial, borderline, narcissistic, and histrionic presentations.
Dr. Fox is an internationally recognized expert in forensic psychology and personality disorders, having worked extensively with high-risk populations including psychopathic offenders and individuals with severe personality pathology. His clinical practice integrates dimensional assessment approaches, neuroscience research on callous-unemotional traits, and evidence-based interventions tailored to core pathology drivers.
As an author, Dr. Fox has published multiple award-winning clinical resources including The Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment of Personality Disorders, the Antisocial, Borderline, Narcissistic and Histrionic Workbook, the Narcissistic Personality Disorder Toolbox, and The Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook. His publications translate complex personality pathology into practical treatment protocols for clinicians.
Dr. Fox has taught and supervised graduate students for over two decades at West Virginia University, Texas A&M University, University of Houston, Sam Houston State University, and Florida State University. He currently serves as a staff psychologist in the federal prison system, Adjunct Professor at the University of Houston, and maintains a private practice specializing in complex psychopathology and personality disorders. He delivers professional training internationally on personality disorder treatment, violence risk management, therapeutic boundaries, countertransference with manipulative clients, and ethical practice with challenging populations.
Learning objectives
Learning material
A theoretical course illustrated with clinical examples. This course is composed of videos of 5 to 15 minutes each. The PowerPoint of the course to download.
Syllabus
- PowerPoint
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Introduction to Personality Disorders
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The structure of PDs
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Affective Impulsivity and Antisocial Personality Disorder: Strategies for Improvement
- 3. Affective Impulsive Continuum
- 4. APD- effective approach to working toward improvement
- 5. Managing, avoiding in-session violence and threats
- 6. Treatment strategies for mild to moderate individual with antisocial PD
- 7. Sociopathy
- 8. Psychopathy
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Navigating Narcissism
- 9. Narcissistic PD- mild to extreme
- 10. Narcissistic PD and gender
- 11. Covert-Vulnerable narcissism
- 12. Overt narcissism
- 13. NPD Symptom expression
- 14. NPD Personality Structure
- 15. Defense mechanisms
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Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder
- 16. Borderline PD- part 1
- 17. Borderline PD- part 2
- 18. Borderline PD and gender
- 19. BPD Symptom expression
- 20. The shame spiral
- 21. Motivating factors of BPD
- 22. Challenges and defense mechanisms
- 23. What happens next
- 24. Conclusion
- Bibliography
CE Credits
Download a certificate of successful completion.
Audience
This training is intended for mental health professionals.
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