A must-read for Mentalization-Based Therapy for Adolescents (MBT-A)

This book covers practical techniques and examples of working with adolescents using MBT-A in individual, family, and group settings.
Written by world-renowned experts, this book presents practical methods for counseling and treating adolescents, based on mentalization and attachment theory and adolescent brain development.
They share their experiences treating adolescents and their parents who have underdeveloped or unstable mentalizing abilities, and introduce treatment principles and useful intervention strategies through actual treatment cases and detailed explanations.

To briefly present the structure and content of this book, Part 1 covers the concept of mentalization and the neurobiological changes in adolescence related to mentalization, while Part 2 introduces the techniques and treatment structure of MBT for adolescents, parent and family interventions, and mentalization-based supervision with examples.
Part 3 addresses the application of MBT to specific challenges faced by adolescents, including self-harm, gender diversity, conduct disorder, crisis-level mental states, and early signs of personality disorders.
The final chapter of Part 3 also introduces Adaptive Mentalization-Based Integrated Therapy (AMBIT) for adolescents experiencing difficulties in multiple areas of life.