Clients with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) are often reluctant to attend therapy and can be difficult to successfully treat. While this can be a rewarding process, it’s not without its challenges and requires a specific set of skills.
But it’s not just the narcissistic client you are likely to see in your office. Often times, it’s the partners and children of the narcissist who are seeking treatment due to being left in their loved one’s dysfunctional wake
This treatment-focused recording will help you learn the skills to successfully work with, and manage, the narcissistic spectrum client, their partners, and their children.
Working with partners in narcissistic spectrum relationships presents unique challenges that require specific therapeutic approaches and skills. This recording will help you gain those skills and maximize therapeutic sessions to lessen relationship difficulties and build resistance to narcissistic spectrum manipulations often seen in clients in narcissistic spectrum relationships.
Children of narcissistic spectrum parents often present with unique and complex symptoms that disrupt therapeutic trajectory and keep them stuck in place. You can affect change in these individuals, you can help them overcome the burdens, guilt, and regret they carry with the tools and techniques learned through this recording.
This unique, fun, and impactful recording will guide you through the process of treating your clients along the narcissistic spectrum, their partners, and their children!
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DANIEL J. FOX, Ph.D., has been treating and specializing in the treatment and assessment of individuals with personality disorders for the last 14 years in the state and federal prison system, universities, and in private practice. He is a licensed psychologist in the state of Texas and has published several articles on personality, ethics, and neurofeedback. He is the author of The Clinician’s Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment of Personality Disorders (PESI, 2013), Antisocial, Borderline, Narcissistic and Histrionic Workbook (PESI, 2015) and Narcissistic Personality Disorder Toolbox (PESI, 2018). His specialty areas include personality disorders, ethics and emotional intelligence.
Dr. Fox has been teaching and supervising students for the last 13 years at various universities across the country, some of which include West Virginia University, Texas A&M University, University of Houston, Sam Houston State University, and Florida State University. He is a staff psychologist at the Federal Detention Center in Houston, Texas, adjunct assistant professor at University of Houston, as well as maintaining a private practice that specializes in working with difficult clients. Dr. Fox has given numerous workshops and seminars on ethics and personality disorders, personality disorders and crime, emotional intelligence, managing mental health within the prison system and others.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Daniel Fox is in private practice. He receives royalties as an author for PESI Publishing & Media. Dr. Fox receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Daniel Fox has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.
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Objectives
Create a treatment plan for better outcomes of clients along the narcissistic spectrum.
Incorporate evidence-based techniques to address and change maladaptive patterns in your narcissistic spectrum clients, their partners, and their children.
Develop skills to help your narcissistic spectrum clients, their partners, and their children learn adaptive relationship skills while minimizing maladaptive relationship pathology.
Explore the factors that keep partners in relationships with narcissists and provide strategies for building resistance and resiliency against manipulative behavior.
Differentiate between the different narcissistic spectrum parent types to improve treatment outcomes among their children.
Develop effective assessment skills and clinical strategies for effectively treating children of narcissistic spectrum parents.
Outline
Narcissistic Spectrum Treatment Foundations
Core belief: “Since I am special, I deserve special rules”
Five central components to accurate narcissistic diagnosis
Core and/or surface structure of the narcissistic spectrum
Gender differences and narcissistic personality disorder
Narcissistic neurology
Attachment and pathological narcissism
Pathological continuum, treatment errors, and speaking narcissism
Key target areas for treatment
Five categories of therapeutic responses to narcissism
Therapist reactions to narcissism
Psychopharmacology and narcissism
Treating the Narcissistic Client Setting the Stage for Successful Treatment
Narcissists don’t seek treatment
To treat or not to treat: the distinction and overlap between NPD and Antisocial PD
The distinction between entitlement and NPD
Complications to treatment planning – mild to extreme factors
NPD subtypes
Address and Change Maladaptive Patterns
Identify surface and core structure
Assess investment and motivation in treatment
Manage narcissistic power struggles
Getting underneath the veneer of perfectionism: competency, autonomy, relatedness, and purpose
Narcissistic reaction from stress to rage
The Treatment Plan: Dig Deeper into Motivations and Lessen Symptomatology
Enhance personal empowerment to lessen maladaptive narcissistic behaviors
Assertiveness over aggression
Lengthen the fuse to prevent explosions
Learn and implement new behavioral, emotional, and thought patterns
Strengthen appropriate social power, interaction methods, and control
Final Steps of Successful Treatment
Conceptualizing successful treatment
Treatment plan goals and examples
Treating the Partner of a Narcissist Setting the Stage for Successful Treatment
What is and what may never be and challenging foundational beliefs
The narcissistic self-serving significant other (SO)
When they are caught in a blackmail trap
Assess continuance of dissolution of the relationship
Address and Change Maladaptive Patterns
Break the cycle of glorifying, belittling, and abandoning
Clarify and maintain boundaries
Manage and lessen mental manipulation
Power to choose
Treatment Plan: Dig Deeper into Motivations and Lessen Symptomatology
Breaking free from the narcissistic partner
7 hopes and realities expanded
Clarify client wants, deserves, and must-haves
No more roller coaster
The foundational 5: communication, mutual respect, trust, acceptance, and shared interests and values
Final Steps of Successful Treatment
Together or apart
Stay who you are
Treating the Impact of Narcissistic Parents Setting the Stage for Successful Treatment
Narcissistic family characteristics
The Narcissistic parent identified
Components of adult children of Narcissists
The family of my dreams
Address and Change Maladaptive Patterns
Identify the engulfing or ignoring narcissistic parent type
Avoid “The Family Crucible” trap
The narcissistic parent and self-definition
Fight backhanded and hurtful comments
Treatment Plan: Dig Deeper into Motivations and Lessen Symptomatology
The gift of narcissistic pathology
Overcome destructive inner narcissistic family member
Differentiation of child from parent exercise
Parenting differently
Final Steps of Successful Treatment
The family dynamic influencers
Therapeutic milestones
Target Audience
Counselors, Psychotherapists, Psychologists, Social Workers, Addiction Counselors, Case Managers, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Mental Health Professionals
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