AMBIT

AMBIT (Adaptive Mentalization Based Integrative Treatment) is an approach to support teams develop systems of help around particularly vulnerable, excluded, and underserved clients who may have little confidence or trust in the possibility of ‘help’ being helpful in their lives, and whose many difficulties often attract large numbers of different teams and professionals around them, that can make it complicated to coordinate who does what, and when, and may sometimes be rather overwhelming to the very people we are trying to help.

AMBIT assumes that working alongside people who are experiencing significant distress can (and should) at times cause powerful emotions in workers and therefore that it is inevitable that breakdowns in mentalizing will impact the people to whom we offer help, their friends and family, us as workers and our colleagues and multi-agency partners, impacting in turn on the effectiveness of the help we provide.

AMBIT helps workers to apply mentalizing in:

  • Direct work with clients;
  • How we function and support one another in teams;
  • How we integrate and make sense of complex helping networks;
  • How teams and systems can maintain a culture of learning and adaptation.


Upcoming Training

AMBIT training is available in Australia, for further details about Australian training contact Dr Michael Daubney at drdaubney@gmail.comand put ‘AMBIT training’ in the email subject line.