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created 4.2024; reviewed 10.2025;

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Name: HOMESTUDY: Teens Diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder &amp; Systemic Family Therapy
SKU: 202500
Price: 35.00 USD
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HOMESTUDY:

Teens Diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder & Systemic Family Therapy

1.75 APA CE Credit Hours- General

Jennifer Benjamin, PhD, LPC & Jessica Walters, MA

About This Course:

With a single statement, the hopeless caregivers anxiously dismiss the systemic family therapist’s intervention, “they are just manipulating you!” A power struggle ensues and now the therapist takes on the pressure to fix the family. When working with youth diagnosed with R/O Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) treatment feels controlled by the presence of life-threatening behaviors. Just as powerful is the derailment by caregivers’ abdication, anxiousness, and perpetuation of a hopeless narrative. Tragically, the system has pathologized the youth’s lived experience of generational trauma, tragedy and hardship. Making the stakes even higher as the youth believe they are a burden, and their caregivers would be better off with them dead. This introductory level program will focus on seeing the extremely emotionally sensitive youth as a member of a system. Participants will increase their understanding of BPD symptomology and family dynamics through the biosocial theory and family systems theory. Participants will apply concepts to a recorded session.

*There is no known conflict of interest or commercial support for the CE program, presentation, or instructor.

Learning Objectives:

1.Participants will identify how BPD symptomology relates to the biosocial theory.
2.Participants will define interactional pattern using a case study, based on a systemic conceptualization.
3.Participants will identify “dialectical tension” to engage a healing interactional pattern with caregiver’s leading the way.

ADA: Contact Jennifer Benjamin for accommodations, training@pcfttc.com

Intended Audience:

Social Work, Psychologist, Social Workers, Mental Health Professionals, Marriage & Family Therapists, Counselors, and Human Service Providers.

Instructional Level:

Intermediate

*Participants should have previous experience with assessing life threatening behaviors and providing family therapy.

CE Credit Hours are available:

1.75 APA CE Credit Hours- General

Cost: $35.00

Policies/Refunds/Cancellation:

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Completion Requirements:

Participants must purchase the CE Program, watch videos (both are 1 hour in length) completely, pass the corresponding post-tests with a score of 75% or better to access the evaluation and certificate of credit. Assignments- none.

*EMAIL training@pcfttc.com for additional information regarding training contents and questions.

REFERENCES

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Guillén, V., Díaz-García, A., Mira, A., García-Palacios, A., Escrivá‐Martínez, T., Baños, R., & Botella,
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Jones, C. W. (2019). Setting the stage for change: An eco-systemic approach to in-home family- based treatment (2nd ed.). The Center for Family Based Training

Linehan, M. M. (2018). Cognitive-behavioral treatment of borderline personality disorder. Guilford Publications.
Papadopoullos, R., Fisher, P., Leddy, A., Maxwell, S., & Hodgekins, J. (2022). Diagnosis and dilemma: Clinician experiences of the use of ‘borderline personality disorder’ diagnosis in children and adolescents. Personality and Mental Health, 16(4), 300-308.

Rathus, J. H., & Miller, A. L. (2002). Dialectical behavior therapy adapted for suicidal adolescents. Suicide and life-threatening behavior, 32(2), 146-157.

Sutherland, R., Baker, J., & Prince, S. (2020). Support, interventions and outcomes for families/carers of people with borderline personality disorder: A systematic review. Personality and mental health, 14(2), 199-214.

Thompson, J. (2022). Culturally safe integrative systemic therapy for first nations families living with borderline personality disorder. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 43(1), 118-139.

Instructor- Jennifer Benjamin, PhD, LPC

Dr. Jennifer Benjamin received her doctorate degree (PhD) in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Capella University and a Master of Arts degree in Counseling Psychology from Immaculata University. She is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) an independent practitioner in the greater Philadelphia Region focusing on youth and families with complex developmental trauma, life threatening behaviors and failed treatment experiences. Dr. Benjamin is the Clinical Fidelity Specialist for the Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center. Her responsibilities include oversite of continuing education programs, curriculum development, researching the ESFT model and assessment tools, and developing the organizational practices to ensure the integration of social ecology and family culture across all trainings, supervisions, case conceptualizations, and clinical consultations. As a former Clinical Director Dr. Benjamin led a comprehensive Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) program for youth (11–18 years old) in Pennsylvania, and an in-home systemic family therapy program in Delaware for severally emotionally disturbed youth in life altering circumstances and life-threatening behaviors. While in this role she provided program implementation/development/training, systemic supervision, emergency consultation, oversaw the doctoral practicum students, parent training, and site management of treatment outcomes. Finally, as a former adjunct Dr. Benjamin taught in the Graduate Counseling Program and the Undergraduate Psychology Program at Rosemont College.

Instructor- Jessica Walters, MA

Mrs. Jessica Walters received her master’s degree in counseling psychology from Argosy University in 2011. Since 2021 Mrs. Jessica Walters has been the Program Director and clinical supervisor of an intensive in-home systemic family therapy program in rural PA that specializes in youth with extreme emotional disturbance, developmental & complex trauma, and rule outs on Cluster B personality disorders. Her clinical supervisions incorporate the Ecosystemic Structural Family Therapy isomorphic process and using person of the therapist.

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