Main description:

Examining clinical practice with families through a mentalizing lens, this innovative book is filled with practical therapeutic strategies and in-depth case illustrations. The expert authors focus on ways to help parents, children, and adolescents to overcome blocks in how they relate to one another by gaining a deeper understanding of--and openness to--each other's experiences and points of view. The volume draws on the empirically supported mentalization-based treatment (MBT) model and interweaves it with systemic concepts and interventions. It includes guidance for setting up sessions and engaging clients; addressing emotional and behavioral difficulties that frequently lead families to seek treatment; and implementing playful activities, exercises, and games that equip family members to change problematic relationship patterns.

Contents:

1. Integrating Systemic and Mentalizing Approaches
2. Effective and Ineffective Mentalizing
3. Setting Up Mentalization-Focused Interventions
4. Not Going Around in Circles: Mentalizing Loops
5. Teaching Families to Mentalize without Explicitly Teaching Them
6. Enhancing Effective Mentalizing
7. Mentalizing beyond Diagnoses
8. Mentalizing Social Media
9. Mentalization-Informed Systemic Therapy in Multifamily Groups and in Schools
10. Mentalizing across Cultures and Societies
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Index