Handbook of Mentalizing in Mental Health Practice

by Anthony W. Bateman MA FRCPsych (Editor), Peter Fonagy PhD FBA FMedSci FAcSS (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781615371402
Publisher:	American Psychiatric Association Publishing
Publication date:	04/18/2019
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	470
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.66(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

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.

Table of Contents

PrefacePart I: PrinciplesChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Contemporary Neuroscientific ResearchChapter 3. Assessment of MentalizingChapter 4. Mentalizing, Resilience, and Epistemic TrustChapter 5. Mentalizing and TraumaPart II: Clinical PracticeChapter 6. Individual Therapy TechniquesChapter 7. Group Therapy for Adults and AdolescentsChapter 8. Working With FamiliesChapter 9. Couples TherapyChapter 10. Therapeutic ModelsChapter 11. Creative Arts TherapiesChapter 12. Partial Hospitalization SettingsChapter 13. AMBIT: Engaging the Client and Communities of MindsChapter 14. Social Systems: Beyond the Microcosm of the Individual and FamilyPart III: Specific ApplicationsChapter 15. ChildrenChapter 16. Parenting and Foster CareChapter 17. Borderline Personality Pathology in AdolescenceChapter 18. Conduct DisorderChapter 19. Borderline Personality DisorderChapter 20. Antisocial Personality Disorder in Community and Prison SettingsChapter 21. Avoidant and Narcissistic Personality DisordersChapter 22. Eating DisordersChapter 23. DepressionChapter 24. Comorbid Substance Use Disorder and Personality DisorderChapter 25. Psychosis

What People are Saying About This

Arietta Slade

This is a remarkable book, a 'must read' for anyone looking to bring the mentalizing approach into clinical practice. In this tour de force, Bateman and Fonagy offer us a brilliantly crafted and enormously useful guide to applying the principles of mentalization-based therapy in diverse settings and with diverse populations. Rich with clinical wisdom, science, theory, and deep humanity, this volume is sure to be an instant classic for beginning and experienced practitioners alike.

John Gunderson

Bateman and Fonagy's Handbook of Mentalizing in Mental Health Practice offers a scholarly, clinically vivid and intellectually engaging treat for its readers. It adds specificity to the interventions of mentalization-based treatment and expands its application into new treatment settings, such as hospitals and brief treatments, and new patient populations, such as depressed patients and children. This book will be valuable reading for all mental health professionals who want to enrich their clinical practices and their understanding of processes of change.

Dante Cicchetti

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.

Glen O. Gabbard

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.

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Brett C. Plyler, M.D.(Northwestern Memorial Hospital)
Description: This is the latest book intended to establish "mentalizing as a developmental and clinical concept." It is both an introduction to mentalizing and a primer on how to use it in clinical practice.
Purpose: The purpose is to continue the process of establishing mentalizing as a developmental and clinical concept, and to instruct clinicians in its use with patients.
Audience: It is intended for any mental health practitioner seeking to learn more about mentalizing and its use.
Features: A thorough introduction to the concept of mentalizing begins the book. A review of the ways that mentalizing can be used in different psychotherapeutic arenas, from group and family-based techniques to individual adult/child interventions, follows. The second part of the book is more patient-centered and discusses specific mentalization treatments for a variety of groups, including those with borderline/antisocial personality disorders, eating disorders, and at-risk mothers/infants. There are good clinical examples and useful tables throughout. Chapters are laid out in an orderly fashion with a conclusion and suggested readings at the end.
Assessment: Though I was familiar with the concept, this book expanded my knowledge and understanding of how and where mentalizing could be used. The chapter on the assessment of mentalizing in the first section is particularly good. The second half on treatment discussed a number of patient populations (at-risk mothers, patients with eating disorders and drug addictions) that I would not have thought of as good candidates for mentalizing, but I am intrigued by the results. The writing is clear and not overly technical or verbose, and the instructions for the application of mentalizing are direct and practical. I would highly recommend this book for clinicians interested in learning about and/or using mentalizing in their practice.

Doody's Review Service

The wide-ranging nature of the chapters by the 27 different contributing authors means that there is something here that will attract most mental health clinicians....The handbook provides detailed explanations and examples of the therapeutic approach, along with a range of practical aids to the clinician wishing to work in this manner. It is, in this way, a deeply practical as well as theoretical handbook.I strongly recommend it to any clinician working in the field of mental health or researcher interested in our capacity to hold other minds in mind.

Padraig Collins

This extremely valuable volume illuminates the capacity to mentalize as a previously sensed, but not articulated, essential component of healthy growth and development. Mentalization is an issue for patients across all diagnostic categories, and should be assessed, tracked, and enhanced in psychotherapeutic treatments of all theoretical orientations.

Journal of Psychiatric Practice January 2013 - Susan G. Lazar

Clear descriptions, with vivid vignettes, of the various ways mentalisation can break down proved useful throughout.... Sections on thinking how mentalisation-based therapy could be applied to units, wards, hospitals, prisons and even society at large were thought provoking in the best way possible and could lead clinicians to trying it in their own environs.

British Journal of Psychiatry - Jon Patrick

Anthony W. Bateman's and Peter Fonagy's Handbook of Mentalizing in Mental Health Practice offers a comprehensive guide to mentalization and its various applications in clinical settings and therapy treatments. This is a great manual for both therapists who are trying to evolve methods of treatment, and patients who are trying to understand a related situation better.

Somatic Psychotherapy Today: The USABP Magazine - Malorie Mella

Clear descriptions, with vivid vignettes, of the various ways mentalisation can break down proved useful throughout.... Sections on thinking how mentalisation-based therapy could be applied to units, wards, hospitals, prisons and even society at large were thought provoking in the best way possible and could lead clinicians to trying it in their own environs.

British Journal of Psychiatry Jon Patrick

The wide-ranging nature of the chapters by the 27 different contributing authors means that there is something here that will attract most mental health clinicians....The handbook provides detailed explanations and examples of the therapeutic approach, along with a range of practical aids to the clinician wishing to work in this manner. It is, in this way, a deeply practical as well as theoretical handbook….I strongly recommend it to any clinician working in the field of mental health or researcher interested in our capacity to hold other minds in mind.

PsycCRITIQUES Padraig Collins

Anthony W. Bateman’s and Peter Fonagy’s Handbook of Mentalizing in Mental Health Practice offers a comprehensive guide to mentalization and its various applications in clinical settings and therapy treatments…. This is a great manual for both therapists who are trying to evolve methods of treatment, and patients who are trying to understand a related situation better.

Somatic Psychotherapy Today: The USABP Magazin Malorie Mella

The wide-ranging nature of the chapters by the 27 different contributing authors means that there is something here that will attract most mental health clinicians....The handbook provides detailed explanations and examples of the therapeutic approach, along with a range of practical aids to the clinician wishing to work in this manner. It is, in this way, a deeply practical as well as theoretical handbook….I strongly recommend it to any clinician working in the field of mental health or researcher interested in our capacity to hold other minds in mind.

Psyc CRITIQUES Padraig Collins