When I read texts on personality disorder 
treatment everything seems so
complicated to me. I think this is one of
the reasons why therapists and
clients alike often feel quite hopeless
about treatment being effective. One of my
lifetime goals has been to simplify
personality disorder treatment. And for
this reason, I'm really excited to be
teaching my upcoming workshop on our New
Paradigm for CBT Personality Disorders.
We call it a New Paradigm because our
approach emphasizes construction of new belief systems and new behavior patterns.
and the approach incorporates a lot of
the CBT methods that I've been teaching
over the past several decades such as
close collaboration with clients,
proactive use of the therapy alliance to
encourage and motivate clients, use of
Socratic methods to help construct new
belief systems rather than to test out
the old, using behavioral experiments, and
also building client resilience All of
these come together in the New Paradigm. I'm very heartened that we are on
a good and useful path for therapists
because after I've taught this workshop
in the past, I've gotten more
correspondence from attendees than for
any other workshop. Therapists write to
tell me that the new paradigm has helped
them break new ground with clients that
they've been stuck with for a very long
time and also that they've found that
it's been able to help affect quite
profound change in their own lives.
I hope you'll be able to join me in an
upcoming workshop near you. Follow the
links provided to see where I'm teaching
this workshop this year. And I hope to
see you there!
 
