Adaptive Mentalization-Based Integrative Treatment: A Guide for Teams to Develop Systems of Care

This book describes Adaptive Mentalization-Based Integrative Treatment (AMBIT). This is an approach to working with people - particularly young people and young adults - whose problems are not limited to one domain. AMBIT has been designed for community teams from Mental Health, Social Care, and Youth work.

Dickon Bevington, Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Medical Director, Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, UK and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Mental Health (NHS) Foundation Trust, UK,Peter Fuggle, Clinical Director, Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families,Liz Cracknell, ,Peter Fonagy, Professor and Head, Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London, UK

Prior to medical training, Dickon Bevington MA MBBS MRCPsych PGCert studied Anthropology, Philosophy and Comparative Religion at Cambridge. A Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in the NHS in Cambridgeshire, he works with complex adolescents with substance use disorders. He is also Medical Director at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, where he co-leads the AMBIT project with Peter Fuggle, and develops and runs trainings in mentalization-based treatments. In collaboration with Jeremy Ruston, the inventor of TiddlyWiki, he led on the development of wiki-based treatment manuals. He has authored/co-authored papers, and chapters including the second edition of "What works for Whom: A Critical Review of Treatments for Children and Adolescents" (Guilford 2012).

Peter Fuggle, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and Clinical Director at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families. Previously, he was Clinical Director of the NHS Islington Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service for over twenty years where he helped to develop a highly integrated community focussed service approach. His primary interests are in clinical outcomes, integrated helping systems and mentalization based approaches to helping children and families, particularly those who do not seek help.