BPD Compass: Introductory Webinar
Live – May 16, 2025 at 2-5PM EST
BPD Compass: Introductory Webinar
- Streamline your clinical practice by targeting the personality dimension that underscore borderline personality disorder and related conditions
- 3 Continuing Education credits for Psychologists
- Free for Students with code: FREE4TRAINEES
BPD Compass (Cognitive-behavioral Modules for Personality Symptoms) is a short-term, customizable treatment for people with BPD and commonly comorbid conditions (e.g., anxiety, depression, substance use, PTSD). This workshop will first briefly review the theories of BPD that underscored the development of BPD Compass. This will be followed by a description and demonstration of how to apply core BPD Compass modules, along with the similarities and differences between the BPD Compass and traditional CBT. Audio and videotaped illustrations of core treatment interventions (e.g., mindful awareness, emotion exposures) will be presented, along with detailed case examples involving complex comorbidity.
Your Instructor, Shannon Sauer-Zavala, PhD
Dr. Sauer-Zavala is Licensed Clinical Psychologist with over 15 years of experience working with people struggling with anxiety and depression. She is also an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Kentucky (UK) where she develops new treatments for common mental health conditions and tests them in rigorous clinical trials.
Dr. Sauer-Zavala is the lead developer of a short-term intervention personality difficulties to address common mental health problems – COMPASS (a loose acronym for cognitive behavioral modules for personality symptoms).
