Emotional Manipulators and Codependents: A Recipe for Disaster
Credit Available - See CEUs tab below.
- Categories:
- Clinical Psychology and Psychiatric | Families and Couples
- Faculty:
- Ellen Biros, LCSW, C-PD
- Duration:
- Full Day
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Sep 24, 2015
- SKU:
- POS045595
- Media Type:
- Online Learning
Description
- Determine, finally, if your client is in an emotionally manipulative relationship!
- 5 key detectors that attract a manipulator and a codependent
- 4 proven steps to break your clients free from abusive relationships
The destructive and thoroughly crazy making dynamics of living in a relationship with an emotional manipulator can convince even the most intelligent individual to remain in a harmful and toxic relationship for decades.
On the outside these relationships appear to be successful even enviable, but behind closed doors, they are a tangled web of deceit and manipulation. Ellen Biros, MS, LCSW has worked with emotional manipulators and codependents for over 21 years. Through Ellen’s extensive experience working with manipulators and codependents, she has developed techniques to help clients untangle from these complicated relationships and regain their self-identity and self-esteem.
Learn the 5 detectors to help your clients identify whether they are in an emotionally abusive relationship. Discover the 4 steps you can teach your clients to help them break free from these abusive relationships. This seminar will not only train you to spot an emotional manipulator and codependent, but will also equip you with clinical tools and psychotherapy techniques to use immediately with your clients to help them begin to regain their self-identity and their lives.
OUTLINE
A Recipe for Disaster: Emotional Manipulators and Codependents
Spotting the Emotional Manipulator
- A definition of the emotional manipulator
- 10 varieties of emotional manipulators
- 8 tools used by the manipulator
Emotionally Abusive Personalities
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Narcissistic Personality Disorder
- Antisocial Personality Disorder
Codependents – the Relationship Addict
- Characteristics of Codependents
- Denial
- Low Self-Esteem
- Compliance
- Control
- Avoidance
- Codependent Relationship Patterns
Codependents and Emotional Manipulators in Relationships
- 6 reasons why these relationships are set up to fail
- A continuous cycle of chaos
- Dysfunctional role play
- The attraction is intoxicating
- The danger in these types of relationships
Emotional Radar
- 5 detectors that attract a manipulator and a codependent
- What is familiar is comfortable
- The difficulty in breaking free from these relationships
- Does our society play a role in encouraging these relationships?
The Dynamics of the Relationships – Love is not supposed to be painful!
- What to look for when assessing for an emotionally manipulative relationship
- A history of mistrust
- Repeating patterns
- Power struggles
- Toxic love
- Swinging on a pendulum of extremes
- Come here…..go away!
Relationship between Addiction and Personality Disorders
- Understanding the relationship between
- Addiction and Personality disorders
- Similarities between the two
- Frequency of Addiction in Personality
- Disordered Clients
The Etiology of Emotional Manipulators and Codependency
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Narcissistic Personality Disorder
- Antisocial Personality Disorder
- Codependency
Treatment Methods and Interventions
- Treatment approaches for manipulators
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
- Schema Focused Therapy
- Psychotherapy
- Treatment approaches for codependents
- Twelve step groups
- Psychotherapy
- Group Therapy
- 4 steps for change
- Knowledge of a healthy relationship
- Developing a healthy sense of self-identity
- Self-esteeming from within
- Boundary building
How to Evaluate Successful Change
- Characteristics of a recovering manipulator and codependent
OBJECTIVES
- Examine emotional manipulators (Borderline Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder).
- Identify characteristics of codependency.
- Explore the complicated dynamics of the relationship between emotional manipulators and codependents.
- Outline how to support and advise clients on how to untangle from these destructive relationships.
- Describe the connection between addiction and personality disorders.
- Recognize the causes of emotionally manipulative disorders and codependency.
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CEUs
This course is available for 6.0 total CPDs.
The HPCSA has declared that any on-line courses CPD/CEU credited by a certified US board, is automatically CPD/CEU credited in South Africa.
As there are different boards for different disciplines, we at Acacia suggest that you use the Counselling CPD/CEU credits. These correspond to South African credits of one CPD/CEU per 60 minutes. If you choose to use your discipline's credits, please do so at your discretion.
Handouts
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Webcast Manual (2.05 MB) | 61 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Faculty
Ellen Biros, LCSW, C-PD Related seminars and products
Ellen Biros, LCSW, C-PD, specializes in the treatment and assessment of individuals with personality disorders, substance abuse issues and emotional regulation problems in the criminal court system, private probation and private practice.
Ellen’s private practice is primarily devoted to treating clients with personality disorders and partners/family dealing with them. She has effectively treated clients using cognitive based treatments including CBT, ASAM Level 1 and Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT), as well as Motivational Interviewing and Dialectical Behavioral Treatment (DBT).
Ellen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the state of Georgia and has taught in the College of Social Services and the College of Natural Sciences at the University of Phoenix since 2008. She also has a Masters in Criminal Justice – where she began her work with personality disorders. She has been a State of Georgia Clinical Evaluator for individuals who have been arrested and charged with DUI or drug offenses. Ellen is a national continuing education speaker and has authored continuing education seminars including “Emotional Manipulators and Codependents: A Recipe for Disaster” and “Unmasking Manipulative Relationships: Effective Strategies for Countering Covert Abuse.”
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Ellen Biros maintains a private practice and has an employment relationship with the University of Phoenix. She receives royalties as a published author. Ellen Biros receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Ellen Biros is a member of the National Association of Social Workers, the Georgia Society of Clinical Social Workers, and the American Clinical Social Work Association.
Target Audience
Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Psychologists, Social Workers, and other Mental Health ProfessionalsPlease wait ...