Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents: Myths, Identity & Treatment
Dr. Carla Sharp will present ‘state-of-the-science’ information on the conceptualization of personality challenges in adolescents. The barriers (myths) regarding early detection and intervention of personality challenges in adolescents as well as evidence in support of the diagnosis in adolescents will be discussed.
Dr. Sharp will also review the development of identity. Participants will be introduced to research on the normative development of personality and identity during adolescence, as well as deviations from normative developmental trajectories. To this end, Dan McAdams’s model for typical personality and identity development during childhood and adolescence will be presented and discussion will follow on how identity development may go awry manifesting in personality challenges.
Mentalizing will be introduced as a critical skill for supporting healthy personality development. Dr. Sharp will then cover evidence-based assessment and treatment where participants will be introduced to structured and clinical assessment tools for adolescents with personality challenges, when conceptualized through the lens of identity development and mentalization.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
This workshop is ideally suited to clinicians from a range of mental health and allied health sectors who want to broaden their understanding of BPD and to be able to offer appropriate supports.
PRESENTER:
Carla Sharp Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology;
Interim Associate Dean for Faculty and Research;
Director of the Adolescent Diagnosis Assessment Prevention and Treatment Center:
Director of the Developmental Psychopathology Lab at the University of Houston.
Dr. Sharp has significantly advanced the scientific understanding of the phenomenology, causes, correlates and treatment of personality pathology in youth. She is the recipient of the 2016 Mid-career award, North American Society for the Study of Personality Disorders and the 2018 Award for Achievement in the Field of Severe Personality Disorders from the Personality Disorders Institute and Borderline Personality Disorder Resource Center, New York.
She is the current President of the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders and incoming Associate Editor for APA journal Personality Disorders: Theory, Research and Treatment. She has published over 270 peer reviewed publications, in addition to numerous chapters and books, including Handbook of Borderline Personality Disorder in Children and Adolescents (Springer, 2013).
Session details
This event will be held online and your zoom link will be emailed to the email address you registered with 24hours prior. For those unable to attend on the day the session will be recorded and the link emailed to all registrants ASAP after the session.
COST:$60 / $40 or $20