Training

Mentalizing refers to our ability to attend to mental states in ourselves and in others as we attempt to understand our own actions and those of others on the basis of intentional mental states.

If we are mentalizing successfully, we are able to understand what is going on in our own minds and in the minds of other people, and realise how this is affecting the emotions, thoughts, and actions of ourselves and others. This understanding of our own perspectives as well as those of other people leads to more successful interactions and social relationships.

In some mental health disorders, such as personality disorders, individuals can be impaired in their ability to mentalize. This can lead to misunderstandings regarding emotions, thoughts and actions, and result in breakdowns in interactions and relationships. It is vital that individuals learn to mentalize successfully in order to improve mental health and social function.

Teaching individuals to mentalize as a therapeutic intervention forms the core of Mentalization Based Treatment

MBT Basic

Introduction to mentalizing principles and clinical interventions

MBT Practitioner

Advanced training for clinicians implementing MBT

MBT for Families

Reducing conflict in families through mentalizing

Parental Reflective Functioning

Supporting parents to mentalize their child

MBT for Adolescents

Promoting mentalizing in adolescents

MBT-C

Working with young children and their parents

AMBIT

Working as a team

MBT Webinars

And other continuous learning opportunities

This interactive course forms the first component of learning to apply mentalizing principles to clinical work. The course covers theory and evidence for mentalizing and is peppered with both clinical and social examples which highlight how mentalizing difficulties disrupt relationships, including the therapeutic relationship. The course covers:

Assessment of mentalizing,
Developing a mentalizing formulation,
Relating mentalizing problems to the clinical presentation
Interventions aimed at stimulating mentalizing
How to respond to the non-mentalizing modes to recover mentalizing
And much more…

The course is very interactive with use of video material, discussion and role play to maximise opportunities for learning. MBT Basic training is also available to be run internally for teams wishing to incorporate MBT into their work.

Training for teams

MBT Basic is available to be run internally for teams wishing to incorporate MBT into their work. Use the contact form below to enquire about internal training.

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Assessment of mentalizing,
Developing a mentalizing formulation,
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Interventions aimed at stimulating mentalizing
How to respond to the non-mentalizing modes to recover mentalizing
And much more…

Training for teams

MBT Basic is available to be run internally for teams wishing to incorporate MBT into their work. Use the contact form below to enquire about internal training.

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The Practitioner course further develops MBT knowledge and skills and is for clinicians who have already completed the MBT Basic and who have been attempting to implement MBT principles in their clinical work. Ideally they will have had some accredited MBT supervision as well. Following a brief overview of core MBT principles and any updates to the model we review clinical videos of MBT with a variety of patients and discuss what is occurring from a mentalizing perspective. Again, this is a very interactive training.

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Mentalization Based Treatment for Families (MBT-F) focuses on the application of mentalizing ideas in work with families to enhance communication and minimise misunderstandings leading to stressful interactions and controlling behaviours. MBT-F is an integrative approach bringing together psychodynamic principles, systemic theory, CBT practices and a social ecological framework to understanding and working with families. It is a flexible approach and time limited approach for use in clinical settings to address a range of difficulties experienced in families including emotional and behavioural problems, anxiety, depression, relational difficulties, and family conflict.

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Being able to mentalize oneself and have some reasonably accurate idea what might be going on for an infant, child or young person is a critical capacity for parents and is called parental reflective functioning (PRF). Parents who can understand what is going on in their child’s mind or heart and respond to it somewhat sensitively have more harmonious relationships with their children and the children have better outcomes across a range of domains. Yet the intensity of demands on parents and the emotionally laden environment of the family are often not conducive to maintaining PRF. Moreover some parents find their own experience of trauma can interfere with being able to hold the child in mind.

The focus of this two day training is the clinical application of mentalizing principles and interventions to our work with parents to stimulate their capacity to perceive their child’s internal experience.

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Mentalization Based Treatment for Adolescents (MBT-A) is treatment approach for working with adolescents presenting with a wide range of mental health needs including interpersonal difficulties, emotional dysregulation, impulsivity, and self-harm. MBT-A combines individual weekly sessions for adolescents along with Mentalization Based Family Therapy sessions (MBT-F) and aims to enhance an adolescent’s capacity to represent their own and others’ feelings accurately and in emotionally challenging situations. MBT-A has been shown to be effective in reducing self-harm and depressive symptoms in adolescents (Rossouw & Fonagy, P. 2012).

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Follow this link to the Anna Freud Centre to view upcoming MBT-CYP trainings .

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Mentalization Based Treatment for Children (MBT-C) is a time-limited approach to working with children in middle childhood (ages 5-12) and their parents. MBT-C is an integrative approach, which brings together psychodynamic principles with findings from attachment and affect-regulation theory, systemic family therapy and empirical studies of mentalization. It is a flexible approach for use in clinical settings to address a range of childhood difficulties including emotional and behavioural problems, anxiety, depression, and relational difficulties.

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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.

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A series of five MBT webinars are run annually. Each webinar covers an aspect of MBT clinical practice. The topics that we cover are:

Talking about mentalizing: Introducing mentalizing- How to explain mentalizing to clients (hint: it depends). Presenting mentalizing as a capacity to build upon.

Assessing mentalizing: Assessing mentalizing in initial sessions-mentalizing assessment questions. What we are looking for? -noticing areas where mentalizing is difficult, goes offline or is out of balance.

Mentalizing case formulation: The function of the case formulation, what it looks like, clinical examples. How to work with client to develop a collaborative focus for the work.

Attachment, mentalizing and therapy: Attachment & mentalizing. Attachment processes within therapy- fear and the development, maintenance and ongoing distortion of attachment relationships.

Relational mentalizing & affect focus: Indications for an affect focus or for relational mentalizing: clinical examples. How it helps. Discovering process and finding the words.

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Talking about mentalizing: Introducing mentalizing- How to explain mentalizing to clients (hint: it depends). Presenting mentalizing as a capacity to build upon.

Mentalizing case formulation: The function of the case formulation, what it looks like, clinical examples. How to work with client to develop a collaborative focus for the work.

Attachment, mentalizing and therapy: Attachment & mentalizing. Attachment processes within therapy- fear and the development, maintenance and ongoing distortion of attachment relationships.

Relational mentalizing & affect focus: Indications for an affect focus or for relational mentalizing: clinical examples. How it helps. Discovering process and finding the words.

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Training for 2024 will be announced soon...

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