Understanding Personality Disorders Amongst System Involved Transitional Age Youth (TAY)

Nicole Kelly, PsyD & Kwonta Phatiphong, PsyD

Training Description

System-involved young adults experience many challenges as a result the trauma and adversity they have experienced. Some transitional age youth (TAY) are labeled as having a personality disorder early on in their life. So, it’s crucial for social service providers and others who support system involved youth to have an accurate understanding of personality disorders in order to support them in the most effective manner. This training will provide an overview of personality disorders as well as strategies to support someone struggling with one.

Learning Objectives

· Participants will be able to identify one component of borderline personality disorder.

· Participants will be able to identify one component of antisocial personality disorder.

· Participants will be able to identify at least 1 strategy to support a system-involved TAY with borderline personality disorder.

Agenda

9:00-9:15am  Welcome and Introductions

9:15-11:00am  Overview of Cluster A and B personality disorders

· Defining personality

· Stigma of personality disorders

· Paranoid personality disorder

· Schizoid personality disorder

· Schizotypal personality disorder

· Antisocial personality disorder

· Narcissistic personality disorder

11:00-11:15am  Break (CE hours will not be offered for this time)

11:15-12:45pm  Overview of Cluster B and C personality disorders

· Borderline personality disorder

· Histrionic personality disorder

· Avoidant personality disorder

· Dependent personality disorder

· Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder

· Strategies for support

12:45-1:00pm  Wrap-up & Closing

Meet Our Trainer

Nicole Kelly is a clinical psychologist who has worked with trauma survivors for 14 years. She currently consults with agencies on trauma-informed care, programming for commercially sexually exploited youth, vicarious trauma, and leadership development. Nicole has been training multidisciplinary audiences on trauma-related topics since 2015 and provides guest lectures at local universities on human trafficking.

Kwonta Phatiphong is  a Registered Psychological Associate with 6 years of counseling experience in clinical and social service settings. Experienced in supporting trauma and crisis, substance abuse, learning disabled, homeless, and low and high functioning client populations. Trained in substance abuse, Seeking Safety, TF-CBT, Motivational Interview, Crisis Prevention Intervention, Trauma Resiliency Model, and psychological assessments.

This course meets the qualifications for (3.75) 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.