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Trauma and Turmoil Practical Treatment Approaches: PTSD and Borderline Personality Disorders

November 6, 2003

Featuring Dr. John Preston

Challenging cases! This workshop presents practical and applied strategies for treating PTSD (empirically validated psychotherapies focusing on processing of traumatic experiences, reducing nightmares, specific affect management techniques, pharmacology), and BPD (rapid assessment of ego functions, common factors that lead to affective dyscontrol, stabilizing neurobiology, effective limit setting, techniques for achieving emotional control and more effective coping, management of suicidal and self-mutilation behavior).

Who Should Attend

Psychologists, marriage and family therapists, social workers, attorneys, counselors, mediators, child custody evaluators, behavioral health professionals, nurses, physicians, and others interested in PTSD and Borderline Personality Disorders.

About Dr. Preston

John Preston, Psy.D., ABPP, is on the faculty of Alliant International University (California School of Professional Psychology), Sacramento. He has also taught with UC Davis, School of Medicine. He is the author of fourteen books on various topics including depression, psychotherapy, psychopharmacology, borderline disorders, and post-traumatic stress disorder. His book, Handbook of Clinical Psychopharmacology for Therapists, was the year's number one bestseller with the Behavioral Sciences Book Club. He is the author of "Drugs in Psychiatry" chapter in the Encyclopedia Americana. Dr. Preston is the recipient of the Mental Health Association's President's Award for contributions to the mental health community. He has lectured in the United States, Europe, and Russia.