Handbook of Mentalizing in Mental Health Practice
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Author: Anthony Bateman
Publisher: Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc
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ISBN 10: 1615371400
ISBN 13: 978-1615371402
This new edition of Handbook of Mentalizing in Mental Health Practice reflects a vibrant field undergoing development along a number of dimensions important for mental health. As evidenced by the number of experts contributing chapters that focus on specialized approaches to mentalization-based treatment (MBT), the range of mental disorders for which this therapy has proved helpful has substantially increased, and now includes psychosis. Second, the range of contexts within which the approach has been shown to be of value has grown. MBT has been found to be useful in outpatient and community settings, and, more broadly, with children, adolescents, couples, and families, and the social contexts where they are found, such as in schools and even prisons. Finally, the framework has been shown to be generalizable to an understanding of the social context of mental health. The model advanced in this book goes beyond an understanding of the development of mentalizing and aims to provide an understanding of its role in a range of social processes.Key concepts, themes, and approaches clearly articulated throughout the book include the following: ? Mentalizing is a transdiagnostic concept applicable to a range of mental health conditions, including trauma, personality disorders, eating disorders, depression, substance use disorder, and psychosis. The chapters devoted to these disorders emphasize MBT skills acquisition and techniques for introducing mentalizing into psychotherapy. ? Mentalizing plays an important role in understanding how teams, systems, and services interact to facilitate or undermine interventions and service delivery. Chapters on mentalizing in teams and wider systems are included to help clinicians reduce negative impacts on clinical care and support reliable and responsive pathways to treatment.? In an effort to encourage clinicians to integrate mentalizing into their clinical practice, empirical research on the developmental origins of mentalizing and how a focus on mentalizing can improve outcomes for patients is incorporated throughout the volume.? Improved mentalizing increases resilience to adversity, perhaps protecting individuals from relapse, and improves therapeutic outcomes. The relevant research, as well as proven techniques for promoting resilience and trust, are discussed at length in the book.? Finally, as an established component of the literature on neurobiology and higher-order cognition, mentalizing benefits from a number of different strands of research, ranging from neurobiology through child development to adult psychopathology. The book fully explores these relationships and their ramifications.
Authoritative, comprehensive, and cutting-edge, the Handbook of Mentalizing in Mental Health Practice is the single most important resource for clinicians and trainees learning about -- and incorporating -- MBT into their therapeutic repertoire.
Review
This, the second edition of the Handbook of Mentalizing in Mental Health Practice, illustrates the vast growth in both research and clinical treatment on mentalization. As a transdiagnostic concept, the process of mentalizing is applicable to a wide variety of mental health conditions. This groundbreaking volume is an essential and timely Handbook that belongs in the libraries of all clinicians, regardless of their theoretical persuasion. The editors, Anthony Bateman and Peter Fonagy, deserve high praise for producing this major interdisciplinary work. I highly recommend it. --Dante Cicchetti, Ph.D., McKnight Presidential Chair, William Harris Professor, Institute of Child Development and Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota, Editor, Development and Psychopathology
The study of mentalizing has been an extraordinarily important addition to the mental health field. Bateman and Fonagy, who are largely responsible for the development of this concept, have done a magnificent job in this revision of their classic textbook. They have added new clinical and research data that will be relevant to all mental health practitioners. This book is a 'must-read' contribution, and I highly recommend it. --Glen O. Gabbard, M.D., Author, Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice
From the Inside Flap
Mentalizing is not only at the heart of human existence but at the heart of human society. The distinguished editors of this second edition of Handbook of Mentalizing in Mental Health Practice have assembled a team of experts who make accessible the ground-breaking practical, research, and theoretical approaches to this transdiagnostic concept -- giving weight to its powerful applicability across a variety of disorders, communities, and populations.
Of utmost importance to practitioners, this book provides coherent, tried-and-tested approaches to both common and hard-to-treat conditions. In addition, the authors present a conceptual framework for clinicians who are helping patients to consider their own thoughts and feelings and to differentiate them from the perspectives of others.
As the applicability of mentalization-based treatment reaches across a growing range of evidence-based uses, this pioneering model helps clinicians to understand the social processes embedded in relationships between parents and children, the experience of childhood adversity, and the nature of learning within interpersonal communication -- as well as an understanding of the emergence and maintenance of mental disorder.
The book's foremost experts offer profound insights that veteran clinicians and trainees alike will find eminently useful. The Handbook of Mentalizing in Mental Health Practice, Second Edition, is an indispensable guide to the current state of clinical work and research on mentalization-based approaches in mental health practice.
About the Author
Anthony Bateman, M.A., FRCPsych, is Visiting Professor at University College London, Affiliate Professor in Psychotherapy at Copenhagen University, and Consultant to Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families in London.
Peter Fonagy, Ph.D., FBA, FMedSci, FAcSS, is Professor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Developmental Science at University College London, and Chief Executive of the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families in London.