Personality Disorders: Working With Challenging Individuals
Live Broadcast: Tuesday, November 18, 2025 at 11 am - 12 pm Central Time
In correctional settings, staff frequently encounter individuals with challenging personality traits that can complicate care and interactions. This webinar will introduce the alternative DSM-5 model for personality disorders, focusing on personality functioning and the key elements of identity, self-direction, empathy, and intimacy. Participants will explore how these elements exist along a continuum, from little to severe impairment, and how they shape behavior and interpersonal dynamics.
The session will provide strategies for tailoring interactions with individuals who have more serious impairments, helping professionals break out of unproductive patterns and reduce frustration. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of personality functioning and leave with practical tools to foster more effective, collaborative relationships with patients who often present the greatest challenges—while also gaining insights that may enhance their own professional growth.
Learning Objectives
-Review the four basic elements of personality functioning as presented in the DSM-5
-Describe personality as falling along a continuum of pathology
-Discuss practical skills for working effectively with individuals who exhibit challenging personality functioning
Presenter
Sharen Barboza, PhD, CCHP-MH is a clinical and consulting psychologist who has worked in correctional mental health for more than 25 years. She provides monitoring, consultation, training, and expert opinion on the delivery of mental health services in correctional settings as well as behavioral and emotional wellness. Dr. Barboza’s publication topics include suicide risk, criminal thinking, and the reduction of self-injury. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in psychology from Tufts University and her PhD in clinical psychology from Fairleigh Dickinson University. She is also certified in Wholebeing Positive Psychology.
Webinar Fee:
$69 ($59 for CCHPs), includes access to the power point presentation, the webinar recording and CE credit – 1.00 hours for ACCME, ANCC, APA, and General (CCHP and others).
Continuing education credit (1.00 hour) available for:
Nurses: The National Commission on Correctional Health Care is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. NCCHC designates this educational activity for 1.0 contact hour. Nurses must attend the entire program to receive credit.
Physicians: The National Commission on Correctional Health Care is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
NCCHC designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Psychologists: The National Commission on Correctional Health Care is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. NCCHC maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This educational activity has been approved for up to 1.00 hour of credit.
CCHPs: Certified Correctional Health Professionals may earn up to 1.00 contact hour of Category I continuing education for recertification.
Social Workers, counselors and others: When evaluating the presentation, select the “General” category, print your certificate, and use it to report directly to your certifying board.
Disclosure Statement
In accordance with the disclosure policy of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care, everyone who is in a position to control the educational content of the Personality Disorders: Working With Challenging Individuals webinar (including planners, speakers, and moderators) has been asked to disclose all relevant financial interests, all affiliations, or other financial relationships within 24 months (1) with the manufacturers of any commercial product(s) and/or provider(s) of commercial services discussed in an educational presentation and (2) with any ineligible companies. Such disclosure is not intended to suggest or condone bias in any presentation but rather is elicited to provide information that attendees might deem important to their evaluation of an educational presentation. All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated prior to this activity. No individuals have disclosed a relevant financial relationship with any ineligible companies/commercial interests.
Financial Disclosure:
Faculty Disclosures
Dr. Sharen Barboza does not have any financial relationships with ineligible companies/commercial interests to disclose.
NCCHC Education Committee
The NCCHC Education Committee members have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Sylvie Stacy, MD, MPH, CCHP-CP (Chair)
Joel Andrade, PhD, LICSW, CCHP-MH
Sharen Barboza, PhD, CCHP-MH
David Dawdy, MA, LLP, CCHP
LaToya Duckworth, RN, BSN, MHA, CCHP-RN
Keith Ivens, MD
Kenya Key, PsyD, CCHP-MH
Andrea Knittel, MD, PhD
Susan Laffan, RN, CCHP-RN, CCHP-A
Marci MacKenzie, PhD, LCSW, CCHP
Jim Martin, MPSA, CCHP
Pauline Marcussen, DHA, RHIA, CCHP
Rebecca Rock, PsyD, CCHP-MH
Lori Roscoe, PhD, DNP, CCHP-RN
Deborah Shelton, PhD, RN-C, CCHP
Nancy White, LPC, MA
Alysse Wurcel, MD
Staff Liaisons: Ana Olivares, Toyin Alaka, Kim Sterling, MBA, CAE