SchemACT for Couples with Narcissistic Traits
Integrating ACT and Schema Therapy to Treat partners with Narcissistic Traits
Integrating Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Schema Therapy to Treat Partners with Narcissistic Traits
This is an advanced skills webinar that will present an innovative approach that integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Schema Therapy to work with couples where one or both partners have narcissistic traits. The webinar will describe how to use the Schema Questionnaire as a diagnostic tool to identify traits of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD), how to distinguish between NPD and other personality disorders, how to formulate narcissistic abuse, and how to apply behavioral interventions to work with these couples.
The webinar will help you recognize signs of narcissistic abuse in relationships including how trauma bonding, Stockholm Syndrome, and cognitive dissonance keep partners stuck in abusive dynamics. You will know how to break these cycles of abuse by working with couples toward changing these patterns or ending the relationship. You will underhand how to identify the behavioral coping mechanisms that individuals with NPD present with including gaslighting, reverse victim offender, love bombing, blame shifting, triangulating, DARVO and more; as well as how to work with partners to assess empathy levels, willingness, and capacity to change.
Finally, you will learn specific behavioral techniques including Nonviolent Communication, values clarification, Reverse DARVO, empathy assessment, behavioral experiments, assertiveness training, self-care consequences, mindfulness, and detached empathy to help partners break the cycle of abuse. The webinar will provide a conceptual framework, experiential exercises, and role-plays to help participants apply a behavioral model to work with couples who are stuck in narcissistic relational dynamics.
This workshop is designed to help you:
1. Utilize the Schema Questionnaire to identity traits of Narcissistic Personality Disorder
2. Understand the formulation of how partners get stuck in abusive relational dynamics
3. Apply behavioral interventions to work with couples with narcissistic traits
About the presenter:
Avigail Lev, PsyD, is a psychotherapist, author, and executive coach in the Bay Area. She is the director of the Bay Area CBT Center, a clinic in San Francisco and Oakland that provides Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for individuals and couples. She specializes in integrating Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Schema Therapy and has coauthored three books on strengthening relationships including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Interpersonal Problems, The Interpersonal Problems Workbook, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Couples. She has presented her research at national and international conferences and provides consultation, trainings, and workshops on utilizing evidence-based treatments.
3 CE Credits available for mental health professionals.
• CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Resource Center (SCRC) which is co-sponsoring this program. The Spiritual Competency Resource Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Spiritual Competency Resource Center maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
• The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
• LCSWs, MFTs, and other mental health professionals from states other than California need to check with their state licensing board as to whether or not they accept programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
• For questions about receiving your Certificate of Attendance, contact Info@BayAreaCBTcenter.com. For questions about CE, visit www.spiritualcompetency.com or contact David Lukoff, PhD at CE@spiritualcompetency.com.
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