The Personality Disorder Toolbox: The Challenge of the Hidden Agenda - Softcover

Riggenbach, Jeff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1730955657 ISBN 13: 9781730955655

Publisher: Independently published, 2018

Synopsis

Many myths surround people with personality disorders. It is true that they can be “difficult” to deal with. It is not true that they are bad people. It is not true that they are always at fault. And it is not true that they are untreatable. Nobody chooses to have a personality disorder. Such people do inflict emotional (and on rare occasions physical) pain on others. But they suffer from intense emotional pain themselves as well in ways that nobody sees. This pain comes from a combination of genetics and life experiences that produce the development of beliefs that (oftentimes unconsciously) drive behaviors that cause a multitude of problems for themselves and others. The Personality Disorder Toolbox offers practical, evidence-based strategies and techniques for helping a broad range of practitioners work with clients to help: · All individuals with PDs develop awareness and insight as to how their behaviors are contributing to consequences in their relationships and other areas of life · People with these traits change beliefs that drive impulsive, self-sabotaging, and other harmful behaviors · Clients with Narcissistic characteristics develop empathy · BPD patients learn to regulate emotions without acting destructively · Consumers on the anti-social spectrum develop tools for facilitating attachment & decrease rule-breaking behaviors · Individuals with Cluster A & C disorders acquire tools specifically designed to change their lifelong self-defeating behaviors and modify the mindsets behind them

About this title

From the Author

Many books have been written about BPD. But few useful guides have been written about other personality disorders. I was encouraged by several people not to take the time to write this book. "This will never make the best seller list like your first two - this is too broad." I did not care. I wanted to offer this to help clinicians, clients, familiy members who deal in some way with personality disorders - and if it makes a difference in one life it was worth writing.

About the Author

Jeff Riggenbach, PhD, is a best selling author and an international speaker on the topic of personality disorders. He has spoken in all 50 United States, and is on faculty of educational institutes in Canada, Australia, and South Africa. He has trained over 15,000 people on this topic.'
His first book, The CBT Toolbox: A Workbook for Clients and Clinicians has ranked highly on the best seller list all 6 years since it's publication. His second book, The Borderline Personality Disorder Toolbox, won a silver in two categories at  the Benjamin Franklin Publishing Awards.Jeff is a Diplomat with the Academy of Cognitive Therapy, a Certified Cognitive Therapist, and currently serves as Director of the Personality Disorders Awareness Network (PDAN). 'Contact him at bpdcoach@jeffriggenbach.com

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1730955657
• ISBN 13: 9781730955655
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 322