The Handbook of Mentalization-Based Treatment

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Twenty-seven international experts on mentalisation, currently of great interest to therapists. This comprehensive book reviews current research and explores diverse clinical applications, particularly for childhood disorders and BPD. It also relates mentalisation-based treatment to established therapies. Valuable for a wide range of mental health practitioners.

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Table of contents

About the Editors. List of Contributors. Foreword by Susan W. Coates. Preface by Jon G. Allen and Peter Fonagy. Part I: CONCEPTUAL AND CLINICAL FOUNDATIONS. 1 Mentalizing in Practice (Jon G. Allen). 2 Mentalizing from a Psychoanalytic Perspective: What's New? (Jeremy Holmes). Part II: DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOPATHOLOGY. 3 The Mentalization-Focused Approach to Social Development (Peter Fonagy). 4 Mentalizing Problems in Childhood Disorders (Carla Sharp). 5 A Neurobiological Perspective on Mentalizing and Internal Object Relations in Traumatized Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder (Glen O. Gabbard, Lisa A. Miller and Melissa Martinez). Part III: INCORPORATING MENTALIZING IN ESTABLISHED TREATMENTS. 6 Integrating Mentalization-Based Treatment and Traditional Psychotherapy to Cultivate Common Ground and Promote Agency (Richard L. Munich). 7 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Promotes Mentalizing (Throstur Bjorgvinsson and John Hart). 8 Enhancing Mentalizing Capacity through Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training and Positive Psychology (Lisa Lewis). Part IV: MENTALIZATION-BASED THERAPY. 9 Mentalizing and Borderline Personality Disorder (Anthony Bateman and Peter Fonagy). 10 Short-Term Mentalization and Relational Therapy (SMART): An Integrative Family Therapy for Children and Adolescents (Pasco Fearon, Mary Target, Peter Fonagy, Laurel L. Williams, Jacqueline McGregor, John Sargent and Efrain Bleiberg). 11 Training Psychiatry Residents in Mentalization-Based Therapy (Laurel L.Williams, Peter Fonagy, Mary Target, Pasco Fearon, John Sargent, Efrain Bleiberg and Jacqueline McGregor). 12. Treating Professionals in Crisis: A Mentalization-Based Specialized Inpatient Program (Efrain Bleiberg). 13. Enhancing Mentalizing through Psycho-Education (G. Tobias G. Haslam-Hopwood, Jon G. Allen, April Stein and Efrain Bleiberg). Part V: PREVENTION. 14. Minding the Baby: A Mentalization-Based Parenting Program (Lois S. Sadler, Arietta Slade and Linda C. Mayes). 15. Transforming Violent Social Systems into Non-Violent Mentalizing Systems: An Experiment in Schools (Stuart W. Twemlow and Peter Fonagy). 16. Does Mentalizing Promote Resilience? (Helen Stein). Epilogue (Robert Michels). Index.

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General Fields

• ISBN : 9780470015612
• Publisher : wiley
• Imprint : wiley
• Publication date : July 2006
• Dimensions : 231mm X 185mm X 20mm
• Produced in : United Kingdom
• Product Type : books

Special Fields

• Illustrations : Illustrations
• Pages : 362
• Dewey classification : 616.891
• Bind : Paperback
• Author : J.G. Allen