Mentalization-Based Treatment for Beginners

di Edmund Matthew Rami (Autore)

Edmund Matthew Rami, 2026

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. When Clinical Education Lags Behind Clinical Practice Mental health professionals working in personality disorder services, community mental health teams, and eating disorder settings routinely encounter Mentalization-Based Treatment before having a structured introduction to the model. The foundational texts are authoritative, but they assume grounding in psychodynamic theory and attachment research that many practitioners have not yet acquired. This book is a structured clinical introduction designed for those practitioners. Understanding the MBT Framework MBT is a structured, evidence-based psychotherapy developed by Bateman and Fonagy, originally for borderline personality disorder and now applied across eating disorders, antisocial personality disorder, adolescent self-harm, and family presentations. Its core focus is the capacity to understand behavior in terms of mental states. This distinguishes it from dialectical behavior therapy, which addresses emotional dysregulation through skill acquisition, and from mindfulness-based approaches, with which MBT shares no theoretical or clinical overlap. What This Book Covers Across thirteen chapters and three appendices, this guide presents the full MBT framework in accessible clinical language: the attachment foundations of mentalizing, the three pre-mentalizing modes, the epistemic trust framework, the collaborative mentalizing formulation, the program structure, the mentalizing stance, and the four-level intervention hierarchy. MBT adaptations for eating disorders, adolescents, antisocial presentations, and families are also covered, along with a comparison of MBT with DBT and schema therapy. A formulation template, a 25-term clinical glossary, and a tiered training resource guide are included.

• Autore: Edmund Matthew Rami
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 04:59:56
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Edmund Matthew Rami
• Lingua: Inglese
• EAN: 9780466492007