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Noxious People: Living And Working With High-Conflict Individuals

Tracking # 20-403994

$79.00

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What you'll learn

Participants completing this program should be able to:

  1. Describe how trauma and stress can alter the brain and impair social reasoning.
  2. Identify diagnostic features of high-conflict individuals with selected disorders of personality, mood, anxiety and anger.
  3. List several skills that health professionals can use to interact more effectively with high-conflict people.
  4. List interventions that health professionals can apply to help protect and enhance their health when working with noxious people.

Course overview

Noxious people are defined as problematic relationships that can engender mental or physical illness in others. This program will help you recognize and deal more effectively with individuals with disorders of personality, mood, thought, and impulse control. In this 6-hour program, emphasis is placed on practical, evidence-based solutions for health professionals in medical, dental, behavioral, and educational settings.

Subject areas

This course counts toward the state boards and subject areas below.

Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling

Certified Master Social Worker

6h General

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

6h General

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

6h General

Licensed Mental Health Counselor

6h General

Florida Board of Massage Therapy

Massage Therapist

6h General

Florida Board of Nursing

Advanced Practice Registered Nurse

6h General

Clinical Nurse Specialist

6h General

Licensed Practical Nurse

6h General

Registered Nurse

6h General

Florida Board of Occupational Therapy

Occupational Therapist

6h General

Florida Board of Pharmacy

Pharmacist

6h General

Florida Board of Psychology

Limited License Psychologist

6h General

Psychologist

6h General

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Learning Objectives

Participants completing this program should be able to:

  1. Describe how trauma and stress can alter the brain and impair social reasoning.
  2. Identify diagnostic features of high-conflict individuals with selected disorders of personality, mood, anxiety and anger.
  3. List several skills that health professionals can use to interact more effectively with high-conflict people.
  4. List interventions that health professionals can apply to help protect and enhance their health when working with noxious people.

Joseph Shannon, Ph.D. (Ohio State University) is an acclaimed psychologist, clinician, researcher and lecturer in the areas of personality disorders, chemical dependency, character pathology, anxiety and depression. Dr. Shannon has appeared on the CBS Morning Program and PBS Viewpoint.

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