Mentalizing in Clinical Practice

2008
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Mentalizing in Clinical Practice

Author: Jon G. Allen

Publisher: American Psychiatric Pub

ISBN: 9781585623068

Category: Medical

Page: 400

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This timely and ambitious book helps clarify the meaning and clinical applications of the mentalization construct. The authors propose that mentalizing is the central corrective process of all psychotherapies.

Handbook of Mentalizing in Mental Health Practice, Second Edition

2019-04-18
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Handbook of Mentalizing in Mental Health Practice, Second Edition

Author: Anthony W. Bateman, M.A., FRCPsych

Publisher: American Psychiatric Pub

ISBN: 9781615371402

Category: Medical

Page: 472

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Table of Contents: 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 Individual therapy techniques / Anthony Bateman, Brandon Unruh and Peter Fonagy Group therapy for adults and adolescents / Anthony Bateman, Mickey Kongerslev and Sune Bo Hansen Working with families / Eia Asen and Nick Midgley Couples therapy / Efrain Bleiberg and Ellen Safier Therapeutic models / Peter Fonagy, Chloe Campbell and Elizabeth Allison Creative arts therapies / Dominik Havsteen-Franklin Partial hospitalization settings / Dawn Bales Ambit : engaging the client and communities of minds / Dickon Bevington and Peter Fuggle Social systems : beyond the microcosm of the individual and family / Eia Asen, Chloe Campbell, and Peter Fonagy Children / Nick Midgley, Nicole Muller, Norka Malberg, Karin Lindqvist and Karin Ensink Parenting and foster care / 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 Antisocial personality disorder in community and prison settings / Anthony Bateman, Anna Motz, Jessica yakeley Avoidant and narcissistic personality disorder / Sebastian Simonsen and Sebastian Euler Eeating disorders / Paul Robinson and Finn Skarderud Depression / Patrick Luyten, Alessandra Lemma and Mary Target Comorbid substance use disosrder and personality disorderr / Nina Arefjord, Katharina Morken and Kari Lossius Psychosis / Martin Debban and Anthony Bateman.

Mentalizing in Group Art Therapy

2019-12-19
 |  Psychology
Mentalizing in Group Art Therapy

Author: Kula Moore

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

ISBN: 9781784508937

Category: Psychology

Page: 240

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By creating a therapeutic outlet for processing and self-expression, art therapy is an especially effective way to help emerging adults to develop their mentalizing faculty. With an 8-week syllabus, this professional guide provides detailed directives on putting mentalizing-based arts interventions into clinical practice with those aged 18-30, in a group or individual setting. With a specific focus on the differences in treating this age group, and case examples to demonstrate how art therapy interventions enhance mentalizing, this guide is an ideal resource for all professional art therapists looking to utilize their distinct capabilities and specialized training in a psychiatric hospital setting.

Mentalizing in the Development and Treatment of Attachment Trauma

2018-03-08
 |  Psychology
Mentalizing in the Development and Treatment of Attachment Trauma

Author: Jon G. Allen

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9780429916267

Category: Psychology

Page: 362

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This book brings together the latest knowledge from attachment research and neuroscience to provide a new approach to treating trauma for therapists from different professional disciplines and diverse theoretical backgrounds. The field of trauma suffers from fragmentation as brands of therapy proliferate in relation to a multiplicity of psychiatric disorders. This fragmentation calls for a fresh clinical approach to treating trauma. Pinpointing at once the problem and potential solution, the author places the experience of being psychologically alone in unbearable emotional states at the heart of trauma in attachment relationships. This trauma results from a failure of mentalizing, that is, empathic attunement to emotional distress. Psychotherapy offers an opportunity for healing by restoring mentalizing, that is, fostering psychological attunement in the context of secure attachment relationships-in the psychotherapy relationship and in other attachment relationships. The book gives a unique overview of common attachment patterns in childhood and adulthood, setting the stage for understanding attachment trauma, which is most conspicuous in maltreatment but also more subtly evident in early and repeated failures of attunement in attachment relationships.

Mentalizing

2018-10-24
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Mentalizing

Author: Clara Möller

Publisher: Linköping University Electronic Press

ISBN: 9789176851890

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Page: 43

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Mentalizing means making sense of oneself and others in terms of mental states, such as thoughts and feelings. The Reflective Functioning (RF) scale is the golden standard in measuring mentalizing. This thesis aimed to explore the concept of mentalizing and its operationalization RF in different contexts and what RF means in human interaction. The first part of the thesis focused on capturing the applicability of RF in difficult situations of adulthood. The concept of mentalizing was studied as a trait capacity (in young criminal offenders and in mothers who reflected upon their relations to their children and upon limit setting in relation to their children). Findings in the first study indicated that mentalizing might be considered to function as a buffer against committing criminal acts. The second study showed that limit setting RF was more predictive of the mothers’ behavior, measured as emotional availability in interaction with their children, than their general RF concerning the child. In the second part of the thesis, mentalizing was investigated in therapy sessions and analyzed as a state and interactional phenomenon. In study III, therapist interventions were studied and found to be related to the degree of mentalizing that occurred in patient statements, implying that interventions that demanded mentalizing predicted higher levels of RF in patient statements. In study IV, a new instrument to investigate dyadic mentalizing (i. e. both patient and therapist together) was tested. In one of the cases studied, higher dyadic RF predicted patient rated symptom relief in the next session, indicating that dyadic RF might be a mechanism of change. In conclusion, the studies of this thesis suggest that mentalizing can be meaningfully viewed both as an individual competence and as an interactional phenomenon and that RF seems to be highly context- and relationship-specific. Mentalisering är att begripliggöra sig själv och andra utifrån bakomliggande mentala tillstånd såsom tankar och känslor. Det mest använda sättet att mäta mentalisering är Reflective functioning scale (RF-skalan) som appliceras på anknytningsintervjuer. Avhandlingen syftade till att utforska begreppet mentalisering och RF i olika kontexter samt vad RF har för betydelse i mellanmänskligt samspel. Första delen av avhandlingen fokuserades kring att fånga användbarheten av RF gällande svåra situationer i vuxenlivet. Då undersöktes mentaliseringsbegreppet som en förmåga hos individen (hos unga män som satt i fängelse dömda för olika brott och hos mödrar som reflekterade över relationen till sina barn och över gränssättningssituationer i relation till barnen). Resultaten i den första studien indikerade att mentalisering kan fungera som buffert mot att begå brott. Den andra studien visade att förmågan att mentalisera kring gränssättning i högre utsträckning predicerade mödrarnas beteende i form av emotionell tillgänglighet i samspelet med barnet än generell mentaliseringsförmåga kring barnet. I andra delen av avhandlingen undersöktes mentalisering i terapisessioner, alltså som ett interaktionsfenomen. Studie III handlade om att undersöka hur terapeutens interventioner påverkade graden av mentalisering i patientensuttalanden under en terapisession. Resultaten visade att interventioner som direkt uppmanade till mentalisering ledde till högre RF hos patienten, vilket ger stöd för teorin bakom mentaliseringsbaserad terapi. I den sista studien, en fallstudie, prövades ett nytt instrument avsett att bedöma graden av mentalisering hos den terapeutiska dyaden, dvs både terapeut och patient tillsammans. Ett av resultaten var att högre dyadisk RF kunde predicera minskade symtom i nästföljande session, vilket tyder på att dyadisk RF kan vara en terapeutisk mekanism. Sammanfattningsvis pekar den här avhandlingen på att mentalisering bör ses som både en individuell förmåga och ett interaktionsfenomen samt att RF i hög grad är både relations- och kontextspecifikt.

Mentalization-Based Treatment for Personality Disorders

2016-01-28
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Mentalization-Based Treatment for Personality Disorders

Author: Anthony Bateman

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780191669910

Category: Medical

Page: 480

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Mentalizing - the ability to understand oneself and others by inferring mental states that lie behind overt behaviour - develops within the context of attachment relationships. It is crucial to self-regulation and constructive, intimate relationships, both of which are impaired in personality disorders because of sensitivity to losing mentalizing at times of anxiety and attachment stress. Loss of mentalizing leads to interpersonal and social problems, emotional variability, impulsivity, self-destructive behaviours, and violence. This practical guide on mentalization-based treatment (MBT) of personality disorders outlines the mentalizing model of borderline and antisocial personality disorders and how it translates into clinical treatment. The book, divided into four parts - the mentalizing framework, basic mentalizing practice, mentalizing and groups, and mentalizing systems - covers the aims and structure of treatment, outlines how patients are introduced to the mentalizing model so that their personality disorder makes sense to them, explains why certain interventions are recommended and others are discouraged, and systematically describes the process of treatment in both group and individual therapy to support more stable mentalizing. People with personality disorders commonly have comorbid mental health problems, such as depression and eating disorders, which complicate clinical treatment. Therefore, the book advises the clinician on how to manage comorbidity in treatment. In addition, mentalizing problems in families and social systems, for example, schools and mental health services are also covered. A families and carers training and support guide is provided as families and others are often neglected during the treatment of people with personality disorder. The book is a valuable guide for all mental health workers on how to effectively treat personality disorders.

Trauma and Beyond

2020-06-08
 |  Psychology
Trauma and Beyond

Author: Ursula Wirtz

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781000208191

Category: Psychology

Page: 370

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In this seminal work on the clinical, archetypal and spiritual dimension of trauma, the author offers a compelling vision of the transformative potential of suffering and the dialectic of Dying and Becoming. Wirtz outlines a healing path from fragmentation to integration and illuminates the resilience of the human spirit in the face of severe trauma. Trauma and Beyond will be essential reading and a valuable resource for counsellors, therapists and Jungian analysts who are challenged in their practice with individual and collective traumata.

Mentalizing and Epistemic Trust

2021
 |  History
Mentalizing and Epistemic Trust

Author: Robbie Duschinsky

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780198871187

Category: History

Page: 305

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This is an open access title available under the terms of a [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International] licence. It is free to read at Oxford Clinical Psychology Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The theory of mentalizing and epistemic trust introduced by Peter Fonagy and colleagues at the Anna Freud Centre has been an important perspective on mental health and illness. Mentalizing and Epistemic Trust is the first comprehensive account and evaluation of this perspective. The book explores twenty primary concepts that organize the contributions of Fonagy and colleagues: adaptation, aggression, the alien self, culture, disorganized attachment, epistemic trust, hypermentalizing, reflective function, the P factor, pretend mode, the primary unconscious, psychic equivalence, mental illness, mentalizing, mentalization-based therapy, non-mentalizing, the self, sexuality, the social environment, and teleological mode. The biographical and social context of the development of these ideas is examined. The book also specifies the current strengths and limitations of the theory of mentalizing and epistemic trust, with attention to the implications for both clinicians and researchers. This book will be of interest to historians of the human sciences, developmental psychologists, and clinicians interested in taking a broader perspective on psychological theory and concepts.

Adaptive Mentalization-Based Integrative Treatment

2017-08-14
 |  Psychology
Adaptive Mentalization-Based Integrative Treatment

Author: Dickon Bevington

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780191028816

Category: Psychology

Page: 416

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Socially excluded youth with mental health problems and co-occurring difficulties (e.g. conduct disorder, family breakdown, homelessness, substance use, exploitation, educational failure) attract the involvement of multiple agencies. Poorly coordinated interventions often multiply in the face of such problems, so that a young person or family is approached by multiple workers from different agencies working towards different goals and using different treatment models; these are often overwhelming and may actually be experienced as aversive by the young person or their family. Failure to provide effective help is costly throughout life This is the first book to describe Adaptive Mentalization-Based Integrative Treatment (AMBIT). This is an approach to working with people - particularly young people and young adults - whose lives are often chaotic and risky, and whose problems are not limited to one domain. In addition to mental health problems, they may have problems with care arrangements, education or employment, exploitation, substance misuse, offending behaviours, and gang affiliations; if these problems are all occurring simultaneously, any progress in one area is easily undermined by harms still occurring in another. AMBIT has been designed by and for community teams from Mental Health, Social Care, Youth work, or that may be purposefully multi-disciplinary/multi-agency. It emphasises the need to strengthen integration in the complex networks that tend to gather around such clients, minimising the likelihood of an experience of care that is aversive. AMBIT uses well evidenced ‘Mentalization-based’ approaches, that are at their core integrative - drawing on recent advances in neuroscience, psycho-analytic, social cognitive, and systemic "treatment models".

Neurobiology and Mental Health Clinical Practice

2017-10-02
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Neurobiology and Mental Health Clinical Practice

Author: Dennis Miehls

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317505372

Category: Medical

Page: 272

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This book illustrates the current findings of interpersonal neurobiology that inform knowledge building and clinical practice. Contributions cover an impressive range of material including how neurobiology interfaces with clinical work with children, individuals with substance abuse issues, couples and clients with trauma histories. Leading mental health clinician-scholars describe path-breaking explorations at the neurobiological frontiers of 21st century clinical theory and practice. Representing the fields of social work, psychology and psychiatry, these authors creatively apply research findings from the ongoing revolution in social and behaviour neuroscience to a diverse array of clinical issues. Contributions include elaborations of theory (the evolving social brain; new directions in attachment, affect regulation and trauma studies); practice (neurobiologically informed work with children, adults, couples and in the conduct of supervision); and emerging neuroscientific perspectives on broader mental health issues and concerns (substance abuse; psychotropic medications; secondary traumatic stress in clinicians; the neurodynamics of racial prejudice; the dangers of forfeiting humanism to our current romance with the biological). Together, these chapters equip readers with state-of-the-art knowledge of the manner in which new understandings of the brain inform and shape today’s professional efforts to heal the troubled mind. This book was originally published as a special issue of Smith College Studies in Social Work.

The Art and Science of Brief Psychotherapies

2017-09-07
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The Art and Science of Brief Psychotherapies

Author: Mantosh J. Dewan

Publisher: American Psychiatric Pub

ISBN: 9781615371518

Category: Medical

Page: 400

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With all of the expert-authored content that made previous editions indispensable references for students and practitioners alike, this third edition of The Art and Science of Brief Psychotherapies: A Practitioner's Guide has been updated to reflect this rapidly changing field. Most chapters include new material that documents recent developments within existing models, and new chapters tackle topics that include the following: Multicultural practice Mentalizing Motivational interviewing Dialectical behavior therapy Telepsychiatry Internet-based interventions All chapters summarize the ideas underlying each modality, the evidence for effectiveness, and the techniques and interventions central to each. In this edition, the DVD of videos has been replaced with 40 updated streaming videos -- available on desktop and mobile devices -- that show experienced practitioners engaged in a range of brief therapies, allowing for a deeper and richer learning experience for readers. In a national and global environment of limited economic resources and multiple demands on patients' time, short-term treatment modalities are increasingly important. Integrating theory, research, and step-by-step procedures, The Art and Science of Brief Psychotherapies is an ideal introduction to the range of short-term therapies for psychiatry residents, psychology interns, social work students, and experienced practitioners looking to broaden their practice.

The Art and Science of Brief Psychotherapies

2017-09-07
 |  Medical
The Art and Science of Brief Psychotherapies

Author: Mantosh J. Dewan, M.D.

Publisher: American Psychiatric Pub

ISBN: 9781615370795

Category: Medical

Page: 400

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Each chapter is thoroughly updated, and new chapters cover such topics as dialectical behavior therapy, multicultural practice, and mentalizing, as well as fresh approaches to intervention, such as telepsychiatry and Internet-based interventions. There are also new videos on dialectical behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing.