Skills Module 4: Evidence-based tools for dealing with sociopathic behavior

About this course

Part 4 of skills training for recovery from narcissistic abuse, gaslighting and toxic stress, presented by Dr. Liane Leedom

You’ve probably been shocked, even blindsided, by the behavior of the sociopath in your life, meaning someone with antisocial, narcissistic or psychopathic personality disorder. Why? Because his or her behavior violates your longstanding, lifelong models of what it means to be human and how people should act.

So if you have no choice but to deal with the sociopath, what do you do? That’s exactly what Dr. Liane Leedom explains in this webinar.

Your first concern, she says, is your physical safety. Not all sociopaths are violent, but some are. If you’ve ever seen violent behavior in the individual you’re dealing with, even if it was not directed towards you, you should be cautious. Your second concern is your psychological and emotional well-being.

Then, Dr. Leedom teaches you specific, evidence-based tools for dealing with the sociopath. Here are three main ones: setting boundaries, validating and protecting your self-respect.

This skills training is based on the concepts of dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT). Dr. Leedom refers to many DBT concepts in this course. To jumpstart your own personal recovery, she strongly recommends that you purchase DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets, by Marsha M. Linehan. In Dr. Leedom’s experience, the participants who worked with the handouts and worksheets in conjunction with her instruction make the most progress.

Highlights

• How to be skillful in getting what you want and need from others
• Clarifying your goals in interpersonal situations
• FAST guidelines — how to act in ways that preserve your self-respect
• Building solid relationships and ending destructive ones
• Skills for finding friends and getting people to like you

About the instructor Dr. Liane Leedom

Liane J. Leedom, M.D., is a psychiatrist and a professor of counseling and psychology at the University of Bridgeport. She is author of Just Like His Father? A Guide to Overcoming Your Child’s Genetic Connection to Antisocial Behavior, Addiction and ADHD, and Women Who Love Psychopaths: Investigating the Relationships of Inevitable Harm. She is also author of multiple peer-reviewed studies, including Counseling Intimate Partner Abuse Survivors: Effective and Ineffective Interventions; The Dominance Behavioral System and Psychopathology: Evidence from Self-Report, Observational and Biological Studies; The Problem of Parental Psychopathy; and Did He Ever Love Me? A Qualitative Study of Life with a Psychopathic Husband.

Read Dr. Leedom’s studies at ResearchGate.

In addition to her university research and teaching, Dr. Leedom is currently in private practice as a psychiatrist. She trained in medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, and at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. She previously served on the medical staff of several Connecticut facilities, including St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Hall-Brooke Behavioral Health Services, the Hospital of St. Raphael and the Center for Optimum Care.

Cost and credits

This course is Part Four of Skills training for recovery from abuse, gaslighting and toxic stress, presented by Dr. Liane Leedom. The cost is $62.50 for 2.5 hours of instruction — two classes, 75 minutes each. Once you purchase the course, you can access it online as long and as often as you want.

Be sure to watch the FREE introduction — Your first step towards real recovery from narcissistic abuse and trauma.

Dr. Leedom’s program has four parts, which will get you well on the road to recovery. Save $80 when you buy the entire program.

Although this course does not award continuing education credits, you will be able to download a certificate of achievement upon completion.

Learning objectives

After completing this webinar you should be able to:

• Use evidence-based interpersonal skills for better relationships
• Use DEAR MAN guidelines for getting what you want — describe, express, assert
• Use GIVE guidelines for keeping your relationships — gentle, interested, validate
• Troubleshoot when what you are doing isn’t working
• Explain effective strategies for ending unhealthy relationships

Program agenda for Evidence-based tools for dealing with sociopathic behavior

Class 1

• Goals of interpersonal effectiveness in your relationships with others
• Factors that reduce your interpersonal effectiveness
• Myths that can prevent you from achieving interpersonal effectiveness
• Overview of skillfully obtaining interpersonal objectives
• Clarifying your goals in your interactions with others
• DEAR MAN guidelines for getting what you want
• Applying DEAR MAN skills to a difficult current interaction
• GIVE guidelines for keeping your relationships
• FAST guidelines for keeping respect for yourself

Class 2

• Deciding how intensely to hold your ground
• Troubleshooting: When what you are doing isn’t working
• Overview of building solid relationships and ending destructive ones
• You are lovable, but finding friends may take effort
• Skills to find people and get them to like you
• Mindfulness of others — observe, describe, participate
• Identifying actions and responses that are mindful of others
• Is your relationship destructive or interfering?
• Effective strategies for ending unhealthy relationships

You may be so worried that you’ll encounter another sociopath that you avoid people. But with skills of interpersonal effectiveness, you can get what you want and need from people in a healthy and respectful manner. Learn to build social connections with confidence.

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