Mentalization-Based Treatment for Adolescents

Mentalization-Based Treatment for Adolescents (MBT-A) is a practical guide for child and adolescent mental health professionals to help enhance their knowledge, skills and practice. The book focuses on describing MBT work with adolescents in a practical way that reflects everyday clinical practice. With chapters authored by international experts, it elucidates how to work within a mentalization-based framework with adolescents in individual, family and group settings. Following an initial theoretical orientation embedded in adolescent development, the second part of the book illuminates the MBT stance and technique when working with young people, as well as the supervisory structures employed to sustain the MBT-A therapist. The third part describes applications of MBT-A therapies to support adolescents with a range of presentations. This book will appeal to therapists working with adolescents who wish to develop their expertise in MBT as well as other child and adolescent mental health professionals.

Trudie Rossouw, MD, is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, fully registered with the General Medical Council. She has over 20 years of experience treating the full range of child and adolescent mental health conditions. Dr Rossouw currently works as consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Priory Hospital, North London and in her own child and adolescent mental health service, the Stepping Stones Clinic in London. Maria Wiwe, MA, is a Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist and qualified MBT-A therapist, supervisor and trainer as well as a certified MBT-F practitioner. Together with Trudie Rossouw, Maria is training and assessing new MBT-A supervisors at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families. She is an experienced lecturer and supervisor in MBT-A and has written several books on the subject in Swedish. Ioanna Vrouva, PhD, DClinPsy, is a Clinical Psychologist, MBT-A therapist and supervisor, and an Honorary Research Associate at UCL. She works in North London in a CAMHS team for the National Health Service and in private practice.

Foreword: PETER FONAGY; Introduction; Section I - The concept of 'mentalization' and relevant neurobiological changes in adolescence; 1. An introduction to mentalizing theory, HAIKO JESSURUN; 2. Adolescent brain development and the development of mentalizing, PATRICK LUYTEN, SASKIA MALCORPS AND PETER FONAGY; Section II - Clinical practice; 3. MBT technique when working with young people, TRUDIE ROSSOUW; 4. The structure of therapy, TRUDIE ROSSOUW; 5. Working with parents and families of adolescents, NICOLE MULLER AND HOLLY DWYER HALL; 6. Varifocal vision in a world of storm and stress. Supervising MBT-A practice, HOLLY DWYER HALL AND MARIA WIWE; Section III - Specific applications; 7. Working with adolescents who self-harm, MARIA WIWE AND TRUDIE ROSSOUW; 8. Working with gender diverse young people and their families, IOANNA VROUVA, JASON MALDONADO-PAGE AND NICOLE MULLER; 9. Conduct disorder - working with externalising behavioural problems in teens and their families, SVENJA TAUBNER AND SOPHIE HAUSCHILD; 10. Working with at-risk mental states in adolescence, MARK DANGERFIELD; 11. MBT-A Group therapy with adolescents with emerging personality disorders, NICOLE MULLER AND HOLLY DWYER HALL; 12. AMBIT, HAIKO JESSURUN AND DICKON BEVINGTON