Luyten, Patrick;
Malcorps, Saskia;
Bateman, Anthony;
Fonagy, Peter;
(2024)
Mentalizing individuals, families and systems: Towards a translational socioecological approach.
Psychology and Psychotherapy
, 97
(S1)
pp. 105-113.
10.1111/papt.12544.
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Abstract
Mentalization-based treatment (MBT) is a spectrum of interventions that share a central focus on improving the capacity for mentalizing. Although MBT was originally developed as a treatment for individuals with borderline personality disorder, its scope and focus have been broadened to become a socioecological approach that stresses the role of broader sociocultural factors in determining the closely related capacities for mentalizing and epistemic trust. This special issue brings together some of the newest developments in MBT that illustrate this shift. These contributions also highlight several current limitations in mentalization-based approaches, providing important pointers for further research. In this editorial, we first outline the broadening scope of the mentalizing approach, and then provide a discussion of each of the contributions to this special issue in the context of the need for further research concerning some of the key assumptions of mentalization-based approaches and their implementation in clinical practice. We close this editorial with considerations concerning future research.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Mentalizing individuals, families and systems: Towards a translational socioecological approach |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/papt.12544 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12544 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2024 The Author(s). Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of The British Psychological Society. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | mentalizing, reflective functioning, attachment, mental health treatment, personality disorder, psychological treatments |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Clinical, Edu and Hlth Psychology |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10196128 |
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