Mentalization-Based Treatment for Children: A Time-Limited Approach, Second Edition
Book Details
- Publisher : American Psychoanalytic Association
- Published : March 2026
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 270
- Category :
Forthcoming - Category 2 :
Child and Adolescent Studies - Catalogue No : 98406
- ISBN 13 : 9781433844980
- ISBN 10 : 1433844982
Also by Nick Midgley
Also by Karin Ensink
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Mentalization—the ability to make sense of one’s own mind and the minds of others—is fundamental to developing emotional resilience, self-regulation, and successful relationships. Now in its second edition, this book presents mentalization-based treatment for children (MBT-C), a transdiagnostic, time-limited therapeutic approach designed to help children and their parents navigate emotional and behavioral difficulties, from anxiety and depression to interpersonal struggles.
MBT-C blends psychodynamic principles, attachment theory, and empirical research on mentalization to provide practical, evidence-based strategies for clinicians. Written by an international team of pioneering clinician-researchers, this fully updated second edition guides practitioners through the entire process of MBT-C, from assessment and case formulation to therapy termination.
This edition contains a promising new assessment tool, new theory and research on the interrelated aspects of trauma and culture, and groundbreaking findings from the first clinical trial of time-limited MBT-C for children with emotional and behavioral difficulties.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Peter Fonagy
Introduction: Why We Developed Time-Limited MBT for Children
Part I - Theoretical Framework and Evidence Base
1. The Development of Mentalizing
2. When the Capacity for Mentalizing Is Underdeveloped or Breaks Down
3. The Evidence Base for MBT
Part II - The Therapeutic Approach
4. The Structure and Aims of Time-Limited MBT-C
5. The “Therapist Stance”
6. The Process of Assessment
7. Working With Children on the Building Blocks of Mentalizing
8. Working With Children on Explicit Mentalizing and Breakdowns in Mentalizing
9. Working With Parents From a Mentalization-Based Framework
10. Moving Toward Goodbye: Endings in Time-Limited MBT-C
11. A Case Study
Conclusion: Looking Forward
References
Appendix A. Measures of Mentalization in Children and Parents
Appendix B. The MBT-C Adherence Scale
About the Author(s)
Nick Midgley is Academic Course Director of the doctorate in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy at the British Psychotherapy Foundation/Anna Freud Centre and Lecturer in the Research Department of Clinical Educational and Health Psychology, UCL.
Karin Ensink, PhD, is a professor of child and adolescent psychology at the Universit amp eacute Laval in Qu amp eacute bec, Canada, where she teaches mentalization-based treatment (MBT) and psychodynamic psychotherapy with children, adolescents, and parents. She completed her PhD under the direction of Mary Target and Peter Fonagy. Her research and clinical work continue to focus on the development and assessment of mentalization in children, adolescents, and parents. She has a particular interest in understanding failures of mentalization in the context of parent amp ndash child interactions and how this relates to psychopathology and personality, as well as treatment.
Karin Lindqvist, MSc, is a clinical psychologist trained in MBT for children (MBT amp ndash C) and parents at the Erica Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden, where she works part time as a researcher and clinical psychologist. Dr. Lindqvist's research concerns psychodynamic psychotherapy with children, adolescents, and adults. She is trained in reflective functioning and has done research on mentalizing capacity in clinical samples. In addition to working at the Erica Foundation, she works with children in foster placement and their families in Stockholm.
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Norka Malberg, PsyD, is a certified child and adolescent psychoanalyst who trained at the Anna Freud Centre in London and obtained her doctorate at University College London for her adaptation of MBT to group work in a pediatric hospital setting. She is currently an assistant clinical professor at the Yale Child Study Center in New Haven, Connecticut, where she is also in private practice. She has a special interest in the applications of MBT to children in foster care as well as those experiencing chronic illness and other impinging somatic conditions (e.g., epilepsy, chronic eczema, asthma).
Nicole Muller is a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist and family therapist at Centrum Hecht Opleidingen in Holland, a specialist centre for training of professionals and treatment centre of children, youth and their families, specialized in attachment and trauma disorders. She is a MBT-CYP practitioner, supervisor and trainer.
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