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Narcissistic and Psychopathic Abuse: Clinical Tools, Techniques and Trauma-Informed Treatment Protocols

Narcissistic and Psychopathic Abuse: Clinical Tools, Techniques and Trauma-Informed Treatment Protocols

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This comprehensive training module is intended to be a main component in a larger Narcissism Certification course.  The content inside covers how to treat survivors of narcissistic abuse from a trauma-informed perspective.  

Here's What You'll Learn


Introduction and Goals of Treatment  
Who Are You Treating? — A Survivor Overview
  • Problems in Identification 
  • Historical Trauma and Non-Historical Trauma clients 
  • Differentiation in Treatment Seeking and Treatment Needs 
  • Overall Specific Treatment Needs of Survivors
Intervention/Harm Reduction, Trauma Psychoeducation and Skill Building for Stabilization
  • Early Recovery and the Stabilization Process 
  • Eight Important Aspects in Early Treatment—Best Practices 
  • Prior Treatment Failure
  • Intervention for Harm Reduction and Trauma Worsening 
  • Three Step Protocol
  • Structuring for Multi-Need Clients
  • Trauma Education in Stabilization 
  • Skill Building, Resourcing, and Symptom Management in Stabilization 
  • Pacing and Titration in Stabilization
  • Questionnaires, topic lists, and psychoeducation tools
Pathology Education for Stabilization/Cognitive Dissonance Reduction
  • Implementing Path Ed in The Structured Session Method
  • Neuroscience and Neurobiology of PDs
  • Specialized Techniques for Enhancing Pathology Education   
  • Pathology Education Topic Lists
  • Six Must Teach Concepts
Checklists and the “Link and Label” technique
Cognitive Dissonance (CD): The Hallmark Feature of Pathological Love Relationships
  • Generalized CD versus Chronic and Persistent CD
  • CD Etiology, Levels and Focuses
  • Four Identifiers of CD
  • Complications of Trauma and CD
  • The Onset of Dual Dysregulation
  • Behaviors Connected to CD
  • Eight Best Practices for CD Reduction   
  • Checklists, charts and Mindfulness scripts
Working with Typical and ‘Atypical’ Trauma in Treatment
  • Trauma Assessments: Trauma Interviews and Self-Reports 
  • Differentiation Between Typical Trauma and Atypical Trauma
  • Dual Dysregulation and Presentation/Hyper and Hypo Arousal States with CD
  • Destabilization and Dysregulation
  • Trauma, Cognitive Dissonance and the Window of Tolerance
  • Triggers in Dual Dysregulation
  • Neuro-Based Treatment Issues from Dual Dysregulation
  • Combination Problems of Executive Functioning, Dual Dysregulation, and CD
  • Memories and CD and Processing Issues
  • Working with Whole Memories or Dual Processing
  • Using the C-PTSD and Atypical PTSD© checklist
Survivor’s Super Traits of Personality—A Different Kind of Risk Management
  • How Personality Science Can Help Us Understand These Survivors
  • Wrong But Common Therapeutic Assumptions About These Survivors
  • Understanding High/Low ACE Scores
  • Commonalities in Research: Two Trait Elevations
  • Risk in the Traits of Agreeableness and Conscientiousness
  • Harm Avoidance as a Dimension of Anxiety
  • Super Traits versus Codependency
  • Working with Super Traits: Early Work and Later Work
  • Historical impact checklist, super trait education topic list and more
Patient Intake and Assessment 
  • Prescreening Tools and Considerations
  • What to Use to Identify a Pathological Love Relationship
  • Tele-Counseling Considerations
  • Intake Package and Special Screening Features
  • Trauma Assessments
  • Atypical PTSD and Cognitive Dissonance Checklists
  • The ACE
  • The Partner-Related Traits Pathometry Checklist©

Everything You're Getting


  • More than 19 hours of video content
  • Up to 19.75 CE credits
  • Certificate of completion
  • Handouts and resources

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Meet Your Experts


Sandra L. Brown, MA

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Sandra L. Brown, MA, has worked with narcissistic abuse survivors for over 30 years and is often referred to as the pioneer in the field of pathological love relationships (relationships with partners who have narcissism or psychopathy). Her seminal work and research helped launch the ‘Narcissistic and Psychopathic Abuse’ field. She is an author of hundreds of articles for survivors on narcissistic abuse and her books include the highly popular How to Spot a Dangerous Man Before You Get Involved (Hunter House, 2005), the award-winning Women Who Love Psychopaths: Inside the Relationships of Inevitable Harm With Psychopaths, Sociopaths & Narcissists (Mask Publishing, 2018), as well as the clinically-relevant Counseling Victims of Violence (American Counseling Association, 1991). She is the current president of The Association for NPD/Psychopathy Survivor Treatment, Research & Education, and the CEO of The Institute for Relational Harm Reduction and Public Pathology Education.


Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Sandra Brown has employment relationships with the Institute for Relational Harm Reduction & Public Pathology Education and the Assn for NPD/Psychopathy Survivor Treatment, Research & Education. She receives royalties as a published author. Sandra Brown receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations
Non-financial: Sandra Brown has no relevant non-financial relationships.

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Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
POS059431
Duration:
19 hours, 59 minutes
Copyright:
Mar 13, 2023
Closed Captions:
Available
Format:
Audio and Video

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