Handbook of mentalizing in mental health practice

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mentalization-based therapy in the light of contemporary neuroscientific research / Martin Debban and Tobias Nolte -- Assessment of mentalizing / Patrick Luyten, Saskia Malcorps, Peter Fonagy and Karin Ensink -- Mentalizing, resilience, and epistemic trust / Peter Fonagy, Elizabeth Allison and Chloe Campbell -- Mentalizing and trauma / Patrick Luyten and Peter Fonagy -- Mentalization-based treatment : individual therapy techniques / Anthony Bateman, Brandon T. Unruh and Peter Fonagy -- Mentalization-based group therapy for adults and adolescents / Anthony Bateman, Mickey Kongerslev and Sune Bo Hansen -- Mentalization-based approaches to working with families / Eia Asen and Nick Midgley -- Mentalization-based couples therapy / Efrain Bleiberg and Ellen Safier -- Mentalizing and therapeutic models / Peter Fonagy, Chloe Campbell and Elizabeth Allison -- Mentalization-based creative arts therapies / Dominik Havsteen-Franklin -- Mentalization-based treatment in partial hospitalization settings / Dawn Bales -- Ambit : from worker and client to communities of minds / Dickon Bevington and Peter Fuggle -- Social systems : mentalizing beyond the microcosm of the individual and family / Eia Asen, Chloe Campbell, and Peter Fonagy -- Mentalization-based treatment for children / Nick Midgley, Nicole Muller, Norka Malberg, Karin Lindqvist and Karin Ensink -- Mentalizing and parenting / Sheila Redfern -- Borderline personality pathology in adolescence / Carla Sharp and Trudie Rossouw -- Conduct disorder / Svenja Taubner, Thorsten-Christian Gablonski and Peter Fonagy -- Borderline personality disorder / Anthony Bateman, Peter Fonagy and Chloe -- Campbell -- Mentalization-based treatment for antisocial personality disorder in community and prison settings / Anthony Bateman, Anna Motz and -- Jessica yakeley -- Avoidant and narcissistic personality disorder / Sebastian Simonsen and Sebastian Euler -- Mentalization-based treatment for eating disorders / Paul Robinson and Finn Skarderud -- Mentalizing and depression / Patrick Luyten, Alessandra Lemma and Mary Target -- Mentalizing and substance use disorder / Nina Arefjord, Katharina Morken and Kari Lossius -- Psychosis : a rationale for a mentalization-based approach / Martin Debban and Anthony Bateman.

This new edition of Handbook of Mentalizing in Mental Health Practice reflects a vibrant field undergoing development along a number of dimensions important for mental health. As evidenced by the number of experts contributing chapters that focus on specialized approaches to mentalization-based treatment (MBT), the range of mental disorders for which this therapy has proved helpful has substantially increased, and now includes psychosis. Second, the range of contexts within which the approach has been shown to be of value has grown. MBT has been found to be useful in outpatient and community settings, and, more broadly, with children, adolescents, couples, and families, and the social contexts where they are found, such as in schools and even prisons. Finally, the framework has been shown to be generalizable to an understanding of the social context of mental health. The model advanced in this book goes beyond an understanding of the development of mentalizing and aims to provide an understanding of its role in a range of social processes. Key concepts, themes, and approaches clearly articulated throughout the book include the following: Mentalizing is a transdiagnostic concept applicable to a range of mental health conditions, including trauma, personality disorders, eating disorders, depression, substance use disorder, and psychosis. The chapters devoted to these disorders emphasize MBT skills acquisition and techniques for introducing mentalizing into psychotherapy. Mentalizing plays an important role in understanding how teams, systems, and services interact to facilitate or undermine interventions and service delivery. Chapters on mentalizing in teams and wider systems are included to help clinicians reduce negative impacts on clinical care and support reliable and responsive pathways to treatment. In an effort to encourage clinicians to integrate mentalizing into their clinical practice, empirical research on the developmental origins of mentalizing and how a focus on mentalizing can improve outcomes for patients is incorporated throughout the volume. Improved mentalizing increases resilience to adversity, perhaps protecting individuals from relapse, and improves therapeutic outcomes. The relevant research, as well as proven techniques for promoting resilience and trust, are discussed at length in the book. Finally, as an established component of the literature on neurobiology and higher-order cognition, mentalizing benefits from a number of different strands of research, ranging from neurobiology through child development to adult psychopathology. The book fully explores these relationships and their ramifications. Authoritative, comprehensive, and cutting-edge, the Handbook of Mentalizing in Mental Health Practice is the single most important resource for clinicians and trainees learning about -- and incorporating -- MBT into their therapeutic repertoire.