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The course: Manipulators and Character Disorders: Interventions, Perspectives, and Strategies by George Simon

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Gain practical tips to successfully work with manipulators!

Manipulators are among a more troublesome group of disturbed and disordered characters that helping professionals increasingly find themselves dealing with, whether or not those clients have been primarily diagnosed with a personality disorder. Like the proverbial wolves in sheep’s clothing, manipulators know how to get the better of others and look good while doing it. Dealing with them can be a lot like getting whiplash, you fully realize what’s transpired only after the damage is already done. Most clinicians know that traditional insight-oriented approaches designed to treat “neurosis” aren’t very effective when it comes to intervening with the character-impaired. Join one of the foremost authorities on manipulative personalities, Dr. George Simon, as he shares a unique perspective along with practical, effective strategies that promote positive change in clients of troubled character.

1. Develop new treatment strategies for helping clients understand and manage manipulators
2. Summarize key differences between “neurotic” and character-impaired personalities as they relate to clinical treatment
3. Articulate the primary power tactics manipulators use to control others while avoiding responsibility for their behavior
4. Determine how to effectively confront manipulation tactics during treatment sessions
5. Demonstrate practical strategies for promoting genuine change even in the most difficult and irresponsible clients
6. Teach clients empowerment tools to overcome emotional manipulation

THE NATURE OF CHARACTER DISTURBANCE

• Key differences between“neurotic” and character-impaired personalities
  • Anxiety
  • Conscience
  • Guilt
  • Shame
  • Awareness
• Ten commandments of character development
• Manipulative personality types
• Framework to identify manipulators

DISTORTED THINKING AND HABITUAL PROBLEMATIC BEHAVIOR PATTERNS

• Thinking errors
  • Circumstantial
  • End-game
  • Egomaniacal
  • Combative
  • Opportunistic
  • Unreasonable
• Tactics used to evade responsibility and manipulate others
• Techniques to manage thinking errors and tactics

INTERVENTIONS

• Practical strategies to promote genuine change
• Empowerment tools
  • Set limits
  • Respect boundaries
  • Judge actions, not intentions
  • Make direct requests, expect direct responses
  • Know yourself
• Sample therapy vignettes