Autorentext

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.

Emma Morris is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and MBT-CYP practitioner, supervisor and trainer based in the UK. She is the founder and co-director of The Multi-Family Project and co-director of The Trauma Recovery Space, a specialist trauma clinic. She is co-author of High Conflict Parenting Post Separation: The Making and Breaking of Family Ties (2020) and Systemic Multi-Family Therapy: Concepts and Interventions (2024).

Nick Midgley is a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist and Professor of Psychological Therapies with Children and Young People at UCL and Anna Freud, London, UK. His books include Therapeutic Work for Children with Complex Trauma: A Three-Track Psychodynamic Approach (2023), Short-term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Adolescents with Depression: A Treatment Manual (2016) and Minding the Child: Mentalization-Based Interventions with Children, Young People and their Families (2012).

Klappentext

Mentalization-Based Treatment for Developmental Trauma offers mental health practitioners a transdiagnostic model to support the needs of traumatised children with both internalising and externalising difficulties and shows how MBT can be applied to meet the needs of children who have experienced various types of developmental trauma.

Inhalt

Part I: Introduction and Theoretical Overview

0: Introduction

Nicole Muller, Emma Morris and Nick Midgley

Holland, United Kingdom

1. The impact of developmental trauma on children: a mentalizing perspective

Nicole Muller and Emma Morris

Holland, United Kingdom

Glossary

Part II: The mentalization-based assessment of children who have experienced developmental trauma

2. Drawing the picture: assessment of children as scaffolding for treatment in the context of developmental trauma

Nicole Vliegen and Norka Malberg

Belgium, Spain

3. A mentalization-based approach to the assessment of parents and carers and families

Karin Ensink and Jordan Bate

Canada, United States of America

Part III Mentalization-based treatment with the traumatized child

4. with young children who have experienced developmental trauma: the case of Isidora

Marcia Olhaberry

Chile

5. Time-limited Mentalization Based Treatment with school-age children who have experienced developmental trauma: the Case of Taro

Momoko Nakanishi and Junko Yagi

Japan

6. Time-limited Mentalization Based Treatment with school-age children who have experienced developmental trauma: The case of Pamir

Sibel Halfon, Hazal Çelik and Dilara Güvenç

Turkey

7. Unraveling traumatic 'luggage' and paving the way to Mentalization Based Treatment: the case of Yurko, a forcefully displaced Ukrainian boy and his family

Natasha Dobrova-Krol and Nicole Muller

Ukraine, Holland

8. Mentalization-based group treatment with children who have experienced developmental trauma

Maria Højer Nannestad

Denmark

PART IV Mentalization-based work with parents, carers and the systems around traumatised children

9. A mentalization-based approach to working with traumatized children and parents together: the case of Sara and her parents

Saara Salo

Finland

10. Working with parents who have experienced adverse childhood experiences in Mentalization-Based Treatment: the challenge of blocked care

Masja Juffermans and Hanneke van Aalst

Holland

11. Mentalization-Based Treatment from the perspective of a parent of a traumatised child: an interview with C. Evans

Emma Morris

United Kingdom

12. A mentalizing approach in youth protection services: Working with those who care for traumatized children

Vincent Domon-Archambault and Miguel M. Terradas

Canada

13. The Reflective Fostering Programme: A psychoeducational mentalizing group for foster and kinship carers

Sheila Redfern and Nick Midgley

United Kingdom

14. Concluding remarks: Clinical adaptations of the Mentalization-based treatment model for children in the context of developmental trauma

Emma Morris, Nick Midgley and Nicole Muller

United Kingdom, Holland