Mentalization-Based Treatment for Adolescents: A Practical Treatment Guide

Mentalization-Based Treatment for Adolescents (MBT-A) is a practical guide for child and adolescent mental health professionals to help enhance their knowledge, skills and practice.

The book focuses on describing MBT work with adolescents in a practical way that reflects everyday clinical practice. With chapters authored by international experts, it elucidates how to work within a mentalization-based framework with adolescents in individual, family and group settings. Following an initial theoretical orientation embedded in adolescent development, the second part of the book illuminates the MBT stance and technique when working with young people, as well as the supervisory structures employed to sustain the MBT-A therapist. The third part describes applications of MBT-A therapies to support adolescents with a range of presentations.

This book will appeal to therapists working with adolescents who wish to develop their expertise in MBT as well as other child and adolescent mental health professionals.

Trudie Rossouw, MD, is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, fully registered with the General Medical Council. She has over 20 years of experience treating the full range of child and adolescent mental health conditions. Dr Rossouw currently works as consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Priory Hospital, North London and in her own child and adolescent mental health service, the Stepping Stones Clinic in London.

Maria Wiwe, MA, is a Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist and qualified MBT-A therapist, supervisor and trainer as well as a certified MBT-F practitioner. Together with Trudie Rossouw, Maria is training and assessing new MBT-A supervisors at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families. She is an experienced lecturer and supervisor in MBT-A and has written several books on the subject in Swedish.

Ioanna Vrouva, PhD, DClinPsy, is a Clinical Psychologist, MBT-A therapist and supervisor, and an Honorary Research Associate at UCL. She works in North London in a CAMHS team for the National Health Service and in private practice.