1066-Healing Trauma: A New Approach to Personality Disorders

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AllCEUs Counseling CEUs

Social Sciences, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Science, Education

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🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Chapters: 00:00:00 - Differential Diagnosis of Personality Disorders from a Trauma-Informed Perspective 00:03:07 - Signs of Personality Disorder in Children 00:06:14 - Paranoid Personality Characteristics 00:09:05 - Childhood Trauma and Personality Disorders 00:12:10 - Flat Affect and Chronic Stress 00:15:07 - Schizoid personality and flattened affect in depression 00:18:05 - Autism Spectrum and Schizotypal Personality Disorders 00:21:04 - Avoidant Personality Disorder and Social Anxiety 00:24:03 - Fear of Abandonment and Intimacy 00:27:10 - Dependent Personality Disorder Characteristics 00:30:04 - Antisocial Personality Disorder Characteristics 00:33:06 - Understanding Self-Destructive Behaviors 00:36:17 - Understanding Abandonment and Borderline Personality 00:39:24 - Borderline Personality Characteristics 00:42:27 - Borderline Personality Characteristics 00:45:16 - Understanding Manic Episodes and Personality Disorders 00:48:07 - Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder 00:51:05 - Cultural Influences on Behavior and Perception 00:54:06 - Cultural gender roles and personality traits 00:56:54 - Addiction and Withdrawal Symptoms 00:59:41 - Personality Disorders and Treatment Centers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.2	welcome everybody to today's presentation on the differential diagnosis of personality disorders
0:37.2	from a trauma-informed
0:39.0	perspective. I'm your host, Dr. Donnelly Snipes.
1:00.2	In this presentation, we're going to review the criteria for the personality disorder. I'm not going to go through each one in the objectives.
1:03.3	And then we'll identify eight common errors in diagnosis.
1:07.6	And I'll give you a hint.
1:09.0	A lot of them have to do with failing to
1:11.4	differentially diagnose, especially considering the function of the behaviors and whether
1:17.0	it's a result of trauma. Personality disorder diagnosis is something that in my opinion,
1:27.1	and I say that because I haven't actually gone out and done
1:31.4	an objective study on it, but doing clinical supervision and talking to clinicians,
1:38.8	I personally believe that personality disorder diagnoses are given far too often.
1:46.1	But regardless, we need to understand where these behaviors are coming from.
1:53.2	Why did these behaviors develop?
1:55.4	And what function are they serving to help the person feel safe?
2:02.1	Personality disorders must be, must be, an enduring pattern of inner experience and
2:09.3	behavior that deviates markedly from cultural expectations in two or more areas.
2:15.4	Okay.
2:15.9	So there's two, well, three caveats here.
2:20.0	Enduring pattern of experience.
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