Schema Therapy for Narcissistic Personality Disorder with Wendy Behary

Schema Therapy for Narcissistic Personality Disorder with Wendy Behary

Narcissists are notoriously difficult clients—often intelligent, charming, and self-confident—they also tend to be arrogant, condescending, incapable of empathy, and possessed with a sense of entitlement. While interesting and challenging, they can also make you feel downright uneasy...

In this seminar, we’ll discuss:

•      Schema Therapy, an evidenced-based, active, and integrated treatment approach that focuses on changing lifelong, biased emotional and self-defeating behavioral patterns through cognitive restructuring, balanced attachment, limited re-parenting work, behavioral-skills training, and experiential techniques.

•      How to use empathic confrontation to gain and maintain leverage in therapy and avoid power struggles with narcissists

•      Maintaining empathy and compassion through curiosity, and helping the client to begin to understand his or her own behavior and its impact on other people                 

Format:

The seminar will include lecture, video presentation, role-plays, clinical group exercises, and customized “scripts” for handling particularly challenging moments in therapy. The workshop will be held in English.

Objectives are to help Participants do the following:

•     Acquire a working understanding of schema theory and schema mode work

•     Learn to apply specific clinical strategies with narcissistic clients

•     Integrate concepts from interpersonal neurobiology—demonstrated as powerful tools for accelerating treatment effectiveness.

•     Identify their personal schemas and modes—a major obstacle to treatment

•     Use self-work: to bypass intense reactions linked to personal triggers, activated by the narcissist

•     Create and adapt custom-fitting scripts to fortify leverage, to utilize “empathic confrontation”, and to set limits…under a variety of conditions relevant to narcissism.

Please note: this workshop will be conducted in English

Please review the many workshops we offer, and register on our website at:  http://www.ipsti-mz.de/events/