處理邊緣型人格障礙人士證書課程 (第五屆)

Certificate in

Managing Clients with Borderline Personality Disorder (Class 5) 

Training Workshop (2-day) + Case Supervision (1-day) <Optional>

Introduction :

This course is intended to help clinical psychologists, social workers, counselors to gain a fundamental understanding on theories that address clients typically classified as “borderline personality disorder”.  These theories include attachment theory and object relations which are useful in helping us to understand the developmental aspects of how the sense of self has been severely “deformed” with its implications for subsequent emotional and behavioural disregulation.

Furthermore, the practical skills of Dialectical Behavioural Therapy as well as the use of Narrative therapy will also be discussed and role played. Case supervision will be made available.

Course Objectives :

1.To gain a fundamental understanding of:

• the development of the sense of self through attachment theory and object relations
• the features of clients with severe interpersonal boundaries and difficulties they encounter
• the therapeutic Skills: an amalgamation of Narrative Therapy and Dialectical Behavioural Therapy

2.To unpack the traditional consideration of treatment resistance through the lens of Narrative Therapy

3.To explore what is the most appropriate and helpful therapeutic stance to such clientele

Course Content :

Training Workshop :

1. Gaining an understanding of attachment theory and object relations in the development of sense of self ;  how a deformed sense of self can be instrumental in emotional and behavioural dysregulation
2. Discussing the features of such clientele and the daily issues and problems they run into
3. Unpacking the traditional notion of treatment resistance
4. Exploring what is the most optimal therapeutic stance for these clients
5. Listening for the absent but implicit in therapy
6. Unpacking the notion of self harm and its meaning for the clients
7. Externalizing conversation
8. How to retrieve unique outcomes, thickening them and possibly reconstructing an alternative  preferred story plot
9. Practicing skills on Dialectical Behavioural Therapy

Case Supervision (Optional) :

Participants can bring their own video, transcripts or verbal reports for case supervision.