Evidence Based Practices for Supporting System Involved Youth (SIY) with Personality Disorders

Brooke Hailey

Training Description

This training will explain the basic symptoms and causes of personality disorders as well as why System Involved Youth (SIY) are prone to developing personality disorders.  Evidence Based Practices for Supporting System Involved Youth with Personality Disorders will be taught and the

goals and objectives of these modalities will be explained. Core principles will be explained as well as techniques which can be applied within efforts to support SIY and their families.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

• Identify three kinds of a personality disorders that effect SIY;
• Identify three symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder; and
• Identify three goals/objectives of Dialectical Behavior Therapy.

Agenda

9:00-9:45AM  Introduction

· Explore what participants would like to learn from today’s training.

· My experience treating personality disorders.

· Brief overview of what training will cover.

9:45-10:30AM  Personality Disorders and System Involved Youth

· Common Types of Personality Disorders (e.g., Borderline, Antisocial, Narcissistic)

· Prevalence of Personality Disorders Among System-Involved Youth

· Challenges Faced by System-Involved Youth with Personality Disorders

10:30-11:00AM  Video Explaining Personality Disorders

· Play Video

· Discussion of Video

11:00-11:30AM  Overview of different Treatment Methods

· Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

· The importance of using Trauma Informed Therapy for SIY

11:30 -11:45AM  Multi-Dimensional Family Therapy (MDFT) and Structural Family Therapy (SFT)  Approaches for SIY

11:45AM-12:00PM  Psychopharmacology for SIY

12:00-12:30PM  Lunch Break (CE hours will not be offered for this time)

12:30-1:30 PM  Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Strategies for SIY

· Mindfulness

· Interpersonal Effectiveness

· Emotion Regulation

· Distress Tolerance

1:30-1:45PM  Break (CE hours will not be offered for this time)

1:45-2:30PM  Interactive Exercise: Roleplay

· Read Vignette of SIY with Personality Disorder

· Participants will go in break out rooms and discuss strategies to use

· Participants will share their ideas

2:30-3:00PM  Closing Remarks

· Questions and Answers

· Wrap-Up

Meet Our Trainer

Brooke Hailey, PhD is a licensed marriage and family therapist. She completed her undergraduate work at New York University and then received her masters from Antioch University and her PhD from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She has been in private practice in Los Angeles for more than twenty years. She is also the owner and clinical director of New Directions, an intensive outpatient program for eating disorders. Brooke works with adults, adolescents, couples and families. Though she specializes in the treatment of eating disorders, Brooke works with clients who have a variety of issues from depression, anxiety and addiction to relationship issues.

This course meets the qualifications for (5.25) BBS CE hours for LCSWs, LMFTs, LPCCs, and LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences & is provided by Fred Finch Youth Center, CAMFT Provider #045295.