Cambridge Guide to Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT)

· Cambridge University Press
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417
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A complete and practical guide offering a concise overview of mentalization-based treatment (MBT) and its application in different situations and with different groups of patients to help improve the treatment of mental health disorders. Featuring an introduction to mentalizing and the evidence base to support it, followed by the principles of MBT and the basic clinical model in individual and group psychotherapy. Other chapters offer extensive clinical illustrations of the treatment of patients with depression, psychosis, trauma, eating disorders, and borderline, antisocial, narcissistic, and avoidant personality disorders. The final section outlines the application of mentalizing and MBT in different populations – children, adolescents, families, couples – and their use in different contexts – teams, schools, and care settings. Part of the Cambridge Guides to the Psychological Therapies series, offering all the latest scientifically rigorous and practical information on a range of key, evidence-based psychological interventions for clinicians.

About the author

Anthony Bateman is Consultant to the Anna Freud Centre in London, Visiting Professor at University College London and Honorary Professor in Psychotherapy at the University of Copenhagen.

Peter Fonagy is Director of the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences at University College London, Chief Executive of the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families in London, and is National Clinical Advisor in NHS England on Children and Young People's Mental Health.

Chloe Campbell is Deputy Director of the Psychoanalysis Unit at University College London. She is series co-editor of the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families/Routledge Best Practice Series.

Patrick Luyten is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Leuven in Belgium and Professor of Psychodynamic Psychology at the Research Department of Clinical, Educational, and Health Psychology at University College London.

Martin Debbané is Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, and Professor of Psychopathology at the Research Department of Clinical, Educational, and Health Psychology at the University College London.

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