Treatment Strategies for Narcissistic, Borderline, Antisocial & Histrionic Personality Disorders – Free Training with Daniel J. Fox
Work with Cluster B personality disorders can feel difficult to organize, especially when symptoms overlap, relationships become volatile, or safety concerns emerge. Even experienced clinicians may need clearer frameworks for understanding what is happening and deciding how to respond.
This one-day training with psychologist and author Dr. Daniel J. Fox presents a structured approach to narcissistic, borderline, antisocial, and histrionic personality disorders. The focus is on practical assessment, case conceptualization, treatment planning, boundaries, crisis preparation, and clinically responsible intervention.
You will explore evidence-based strategies informed by DBT, CBT, schema therapy, and parts work. Case studies, worksheets, and video examples will help connect the concepts to recognizable clinical presentations without suggesting that one method fits every client.
The training is designed to support more thoughtful decisions when the work feels complex, emotionally demanding, or uncertain. It provides general professional education rather than individualized clinical, legal, or risk-management advice.
Why Attend “Narcissistic, Borderline, Antisocial & Histrionic Personality Disorders”
Cluster B presentations can involve overlapping traits, rapidly changing emotions, boundary testing, interpersonal conflict, self-harm concerns, and strong reactions within the therapeutic relationship. Without a clear conceptual structure, it can be difficult to separate immediate behavior from underlying fears, defenses, attachment patterns, and treatment needs.
This training examines the distinguishing features of antisocial, borderline, narcissistic, and histrionic personality disorders while also addressing mixed and shifting presentations. That distinction matters because assessment, treatment goals, crisis planning, and expectations may need to be adapted to the individual rather than applied uniformly.
Dr. Fox will connect diagnostic frameworks with practical interventions, case material, worksheets, and video examples. The aim is to help clinicians consider their options more systematically while continuing to use professional judgment, consultation, supervision, and setting-specific protocols.
Who Should Attend
This training is designed for mental health professionals who assess, treat, support, or coordinate care for people with Cluster B personality disorder traits or diagnoses. It may be particularly relevant when clinical work involves emotional volatility, splitting, idealization and devaluation, treatment ruptures, self-harm risk, or repeated boundary challenges.
The material can support professionals at different experience levels, from clinicians building foundational knowledge to experienced practitioners seeking a more organized framework. Because scope, licensure requirements, workplace procedures, and client needs vary, participants should apply the education within their own professional role and consult qualified colleagues when needed.
- Counselors working with complex personality presentations
- Social workers providing therapy, assessment, or case coordination
- Psychologists seeking structured case-conceptualization tools
- Marriage and family therapists navigating relational volatility
- Psychiatrists involved in multidisciplinary treatment planning
- Registered psychotherapists supporting clients with Cluster B traits
- Addiction counselors working with co-occurring concerns
- Case managers and nurses involved in crisis or continuity planning
- Other mental health professionals working within an appropriate scope of practice
What You’ll Learn
Throughout the training, you’ll examine how Cluster B symptoms, defenses, attachment wounds, fears, and interpersonal patterns may appear in clinical work. This creates a foundation for distinguishing related presentations without reducing a client to a diagnosis.
You’ll also explore treatment strategies informed by DBT, CBT, schema therapy, and parts work, with attention to how interventions may need to change across diagnoses and clinical situations. In addition, case studies and video examples will demonstrate how concepts can appear in practice.
The final areas connect treatment with clinician safety, documentation, boundaries, countertransference, crisis planning, and level-of-care decisions. Together, these topics provide a framework for considering complex cases while recognizing the limits of general education and the need for individualized assessment.
- How Cluster B symptoms, defenses, and interpersonal patterns may differ
- Ways to distinguish antisocial personality disorder, sociopathy, and psychopathy
- How shame, fragile self-esteem, grandiosity, and empathic difficulties may shape narcissistic presentations
- How approval dependence, abandonment anxiety, and identity instability may appear in histrionic presentations
- How affective instability, impulsivity, relational volatility, and splitting may appear in borderline presentations
- Considerations for differential diagnosis, comorbidity, and dimensional assessment
- Approaches to emotional escalation, rupture, boundary testing, and relational strain
- Frameworks for self-harm, suicidality, non-suicidal self-injury, and crisis planning
- Documentation, safety, countertransference, and level-of-care considerations
- How structured worksheets and case examples can support clinical reflection
Event Schedule
The live webinar takes place Wednesday, October 14, 2026, from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Central Time. That is 7:00 AM to 3:00 PM Pacific Time.
The published schedule includes a 70-minute lunch break and two 15-minute breaks. Break timing will be determined at the speaker’s discretion during the presentation.
Free registrants who cannot attend live may access the no-CE replay for three days after the recording becomes available, which is expected within 48 hours of the live event.
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
- Narcissistic, Borderline, Antisocial & Histrionic Personality Disorders: Treatment Strategies, Crisis Planning and Safety Protocols for Cluster BDr. Daniel J. Fox — 9:00 AM–5:00 PM CT / 7:00 AM–3:00 PM PT
About Dr. Daniel J. Fox and PESI
Daniel J. Fox, PhD, is a licensed psychologist whose work focuses on the assessment and treatment of personality disorders. He has specialized in this area for more than 20 years and teaches clinicians about Cluster B presentations, case conceptualization, and practical treatment strategies.
Dr. Fox is the author of The Narcissistic Personality Disorder Toolbox, The Clinician’s Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment of Personality Disorders, and Antisocial, Borderline, Narcissistic & Histrionic Workbook: Treatment Strategies for Cluster B Personality Disorders. The supplied event information identifies these works as award-winning publications.
His teaching and supervision experience includes work with students at West Virginia University, Texas A&M University, the University of Houston, Sam Houston State University, and Florida State University. For this event, he will present the clinical training and demonstrate how structured frameworks may be applied to complex personality-disorder presentations.
PESI is the host of the event and provides continuing education and professional training for therapists and other helping professionals. Its stated purpose is to connect practical professional knowledge with the needs clinicians encounter in their work.
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Join Dr. Daniel J. Fox and PESI for a practical examination of assessment, intervention, boundaries, crisis planning, and safety considerations in work with Cluster B personality disorders.
- Oct 14 2026
- 7:00 am - 3:00 pm
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- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: Oct 14 2026
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