Understanding the Dark Triad of Personality Traits: Therapeutic Implications
About this Webinar
The Dark Triad—typically understood as Machiavellianism, Psychopathy, and Narcissism— has been coined to address aggressive if not dangerous personality structures. Typically associated with people in power or in leadership positions, they may be also present in more everyday encounters. Although possibly more familiar to forensic practitioners, these personalities. Practitioners may encounter these individuals directly, or perhaps indirectly via people who suffered from interactions relationships.
The webinar will clarify the three personality concepts, their prevalence and relationship to other disorders. We will then introduce the HEXACO personality model as tool for better understanding how the Dark Triad. Indeed, the possible role of the honesty-humility domain (the H trait in the HEXACO) will be explored as an underlying feature of the Dark Triad. Finally, specific clinical focus will also be given to how the HEXACO might supplement the childhood/adolescence study of Relational Aggression (RA)—a possible antecedent of the Dark Triad—by identifying possible presence of RA in emerging adulthood.
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Understand what sits beneath charm, power, and aggression
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Power. Charm. Exploitation. Learn what drives them — and how to respond
About Dr Kevin Keith
Kevin Keith, PhD, is a therapist, supervisor, educator and academic/researcher. He has a distinct interest in the study of human emotions, derived in part from his PhD study of attachment theory completed in 2017 at the University of Sydney. He is a member of several/academic research societies, including, the International Society for Psychotherapy Research (ISPR), Association for the Advancement of Philosophy & Psychiatry (AAPP), International Society for Study of Traumatic Stress (ISSTS), International Society for Emotion Research (ISER) and the Society for History of Emotions (SHE).