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ForwardSession 15: Assessment & Treatment of Patients with Severe Personality Disorders: An Integrative, Clinically Grounded Approach
This intensive two-day program provides mental health professionals with a practical, evidence-informed framework for assessing and treating patients with severe personality disorders. The course integrates strategies, tactics, and interventions drawn from six empirically supported psychotherapies: Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP), Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Therapy, Schema Therapy, and Good Psychiatric Management (GPM). The program is grounded in an eclectic, primarily psychodynamic approach, emphasizing real-world clinical decision-making, treatment framing, and management of complex presentations and psychotherapeutic treatments.
Psychology CE Credit Statement
The Medical College of Wisconsin is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Medical College of Wisconsin maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
This activity contains content or processes that may be potentially stressful.
Target Audience
- Physicians
- Nurse Practitioners
- Physician Assistants
- Nurses
- Pharmacists
- Psychologists
- Social Workers
- Psychiatry Residents
- Medical Students
- Allied Health Professionals
Learning Objectives
Participants who engage in this education intervention will be able to:
- Integrate assessment and treatment strategies from six empirically supported psychotherapies to formulate and manage care for patients with severe personality disorders
- Identify and evaluate levels of personality organization, mental functioning, and defensive patterns to support accurate diagnosis, risk assessment, and treatment planning
- Apply structured treatment-frame, crisis-management, psychotherapeutic strategies tactics, and interventions when treating patients with borderline and narcissistic personality disorders
- Identify and discuss cases and receive supervision and group discussion about treatment strategies
Monday:
- Diagnosis and clinical management of personality disorders (with film-based illustrations)
- Establishing and maintaining the treatment frame
- Managing emergencies and high-risk situations
- Conducting effective psychotherapy sessions
- Live supervision: participant case presentations
- Levels of personality organization and assessment of mental functioning and defenses
Tuesday:
- The “Big Six” treatments for personality disorders: core principles, commonalities, and key differences
- Assessment and treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder
- Live supervision: participant case presentations
- Assessment and treatment of Borderline and Narcissistic Personality Disorders
Lodging in July and August is in great demand; you must make reservations early. A block of suites has been set aside at the Landmark Resort. These suites will be held until June 5th, 2026, or until they are filled.
From its site on the bluff, the Landmark offers outstanding views of the waters of Green Bay with 294 units comprised of 1, 2, and 3-bedroom suites. Facilities include the Carrington Pub and Grill, 1 indoor and 3 outdoor pools, 2 tennis courts, whirlpools, steam rooms, and a fitness center and game room. The Landmark Resort is Door County’s largest and best full-service facility.
The Landmark Resort
4929 Landmark Drive
Egg Harbor, Wisconsin 54209
Reservations: (800) 273-7877
http://www.thelandmarkresort.com
To book through our discounted group rate, please call the Landmark reservation line at (800) 273-7877 and state that you are attending the Door County Summer Institute. No group code is required.
Group rates cannot be booked online.
Disclosure
Consistent with ACCME policy, faculty for all MCW continuing education programs must disclose all relevant financial relationships with commercial organizations. MCW has a mechanism in place to identify and resolve conflicts in advance of the DCSI.
Robert E. Feinstein, MD, is a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Donald and Barbara Zucker Hofstra/Northwell School of Medicine in Long Island, New York where he teaches and supervises. He graduated from New York University Medical School and completed his psychiatric residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. For the last four years, he has been Chief Medical Officer and Director Education at Televero Health. He is a nationally and regionally recognized psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, and psychiatry educator with more than forty years of experience in designing psychotherapy curricula, teaching, supervising and mentoring residents and other mental health disciplines. He has special expertise in treating complex personality disorders and supervising clinicians in evidence-informed psychotherapy. He is a University of Colorado Denver President’s Teacher’s Scholar. Four-time Teichner Scholar of The American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry. In 2023 he received the Association of Academic Psychiatry Educator Award for his work on the Apprenticeship Model of Psychotherapy Training and Supervision. He has over 100 peer reviewed publications on supervision, psychotherapy, personality disorders, psychiatric education, integrated mental health care, suicide and violence prevention, and wellness. Dr. Feinstein recently edited Primer on Personality Disorders published by Oxford University Press in January of 2022.
Activity Director:
Carlyle H Chan, MD
Professor of Psychiatry and
the Institute for Health and Equity-Bioethics and Humanities
Medical College of Wisconsin
Planning Committee Members:
Ellen Leitner, MSW, LCSW
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine
Medical College of Wisconsin
Kevin Bozymski, PharmD, BCPS, BCPP
Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Science
Medical College of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine
Medical College of Wisconsin
Kylie Lenz, PA-C
Physician Assistant
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine
Medical College of Wisconsin
Heather M. Smith, PhD, ABPP
Lead Psychologist
Director of Psychology Training
Milwaukee VA Medical Center
Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine
Medical College of Wisconsin
Marisa Stich, APNP
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine
Medical College of Wisconsin
In accordance with the ACCME® Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, Standard 3, all persons in control of content must disclose any relevant financial relationships. It is the policy of the Medical College of Wisconsin to identify, mitigate and disclose the absence or presence of all relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies held by the speakers/presenters, authors, planners, and other persons who may influence content of this accredited continuing education. The following in control of content had no relevant financial relationships to disclose.
- Carlyle H Chan
- Ellen Leitner
- Kevin Bozymski
- Kylie Lenz
- Heather M. Smith
- Marisa Stich
- Robert E. Feinstein
ACCME Accreditation Statement
The Medical College of Wisconsin is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Designation of Credit Statement
The Medical College of Wisconsin designates this live activity for a maximum of 8 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Hours of Participation for Allied Health Professionals
The Medical College of Wisconsin designates this live activity for up to 8 hours of participation for continuing education for allied health professionals.
American Academy of Physician Assistants Credit Statement
This activity has been reviewed by the American Academy of Physician Associates Review Panel and is compliant with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 8 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation. Approval is valid from 7/20/2026 to 8/7/2026. AAPA reference number: CME-2015202.
Available Credit
- 8.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
- 8.00 APAAPA credit.
- 8.00 Hours of ParticipationHours of Participation credit.
- 8.00 NASW
- 8.00 NP Contact Hours
- 8.00 PAPA credit.
Price
Credit MUST be claimed before November 30, 2026.
We highly encourage you to complete the evaluation and credit steps before leaving on your last day!
Early Bird Tuition for 2-day sessions (4 hrs/day) is $430. After June 1st, the price will increase to $455. Graduate and medical students and resident physicians will have a discounted rate, so please contact Caimen at [email protected] to inquire about this discount. A $1 fee is added during checkout to cover the PayPal transaction fee.
To receive a refund, the request must be made at least 15 days before the requested session begins, and a $50 cancellation fee will be deducted from the refund amount. If the refund request is received less than 15 days before the session begins, the full registration fee will be forfeited.
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