Assessment and Treatment of Personality Disorders Through the Lens of DBT
Michelle Quilter, Psy.D., CASAC, DBT-LBC, CSOTP
2.0 General CEU Hours
Description: This presentation provides an integrated overview of psychological assessment, personality disorders, emotional dysregulation, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Participants will review the components of a full psychological battery versus a personality-focused battery, including commonly used measures such as the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI), as well as the process of test norming. An overview of personality disorder clusters will highlight emotional dysregulation as a core feature and will introduce Marsha Linehan’s Biosocial Theory as a framework for understanding its development. The foundations of DBT, including its roots in cognitive behavioral therapy and Zen principles, will be explored. The session concludes with a review of DBT’s structure, stages of treatment, commitment strategies, and four core skills modules (i.e., mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness) and how they directly address emotional vulnerability.
Learning Objectives:
- Differentiate between a full battery and personality assessment and understand the importance and usefulness of psychological testing.
- Be able to identify all personality disorders and the cluster that they belong to
- Identify the foundational components of DBT.
CEU Workshop Agenda
10:45 am - Registration
11:00 am*- Lunch Served and Networking
11:15 am - Self-Introductions, Sponsor Spotlight, and Speaker introductions
11:40 am - Learning Part I
12:45 pm - Break and Networking
1:00 pm - Learning Part II
1:55 pm - Closing and Evaluations
2:00 pm - Event Concludes
*Please arrive by 11:00 AM for lunch and networking. The program will begin promptly at 11:15 AM
Dr. Michelle Quilter is a licensed clinical psychologist who is a Credentialed Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Counselor (CASAC), is Linehan Board Certified in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT-LBC), and is a Certified Sex Offender Treatment Provider (CSOTP). Dr. Quilter specializes in psychological testing and diagnostic assessment. She specializes in treating personality disorders and addictive disorders as well as severe and persistent mental health disorders. Dr. Quilter has worked in a vast array of treatment settings, including acute care facilities, correctional facilities, memory disorder clinics, emergency psychiatric hospitals, long-term psychiatric hospitals, and addiction treatment centers. She has worked in residential, inpatient, partial hospitalization, and outpatient levels of care, and she owns a private practice, Serendipity Psychological Assessment and Treatment, where she offers assessment, treatment, and comprehensive DBT. Dr. Quilter graduated from Florida Institute of Technology with a dual focus in forensic psychology and neuropsychology. She has been working in the field since 2004.
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