Mentalizing Initiative
Presents
MBT-Basic & Practitioner Training
in
LOS ANGELES
with
Professor Anthony Bateman
OCTOBER 24th - 27th, 2024
8:30 am - 4:30 pm
*Los Angeles venue TBA
Mentalization Based Treatment
Note:
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to attend one of the most
requested courses taught by the creator of MBT!
In order to provide a personal and valuable learning experience, this course will be offered in person only.
CE credits available*
Target Audience:
Licensed mental health clinicians in the community and/or academic settings of various disciplines, (namely MDs, PhDs, LCSWs, and LMFTs) who represent various settings including private practice, mental health clinics, inpatient psychiatry units, psychoanalytic institutes and clinics, emergency departments and/or residential treatment programs.
About the Course
Mentalizing refers to our ability to attend to and understand our own actions and those of others on the basis of, mental states. This is the focus of MBT, initially developed by Dr. Anthony Bateman for the treatment of borderline personality disorder (BPD) but now used on a wide range of disorders. MBT was developed based on studies of early childhood development and attachment, and is an evidenced-based treatment for borderline personality disorder.
Details
In this 3-day basic training course, participants will learn how to implement MBT techniques within their clinical practice as a specialist treatment.
Common clinical situations are discussed and ‘role played’ to practice skills. MBT requires therapists to focus on the patient’s mental state and on their understanding of interactions with the patient. The therapist takes a ‘not knowing’ stance and yet explicitly develops with the patient or family alternative perspectives about what is happening. Participants will learn how to use their own experiences of the patient to increase mentalizing within therapeutic encounters. The course considers techniques, such as clarification, challenge and basic mentalizing in the context of some of the common clinical scenarios encountered in treatment with patients.
This workshop will equip participants to understand:
- How mentalizing difficulties derive from early parent-child interactions
- How mentalizing failures reflect and cause insecure attachments
- How psychotherapeutic interventions are efforts to correct mentalizing difficulties and insecure attachment
Course Objectives
By the end of this conference, participants will to able to:
1. Describe the derivation of the concept of mentalization and summarize the basic theory
2. Differentiate mentalizing from cognitive behavioral psychodynamic and systemic psychotherapies
3. Contrast implicit from explicit mentalization
4. Explain the role of attachment in the development of mentalization
5. Contrast non-mentalizing from mentalizing. Recognize the three social cognitive precursors to mentalization.
6. Demonstrate use of the MBT therapist stance (i.e., not knowing)
7. Distinguish the four poles of mentalizing
8. Recognize in their patients reliance on the three antecedents to mentalizing (psychic equivalence, pretend mode, and teleological function) and alter their therapeutic stance to be able to manage them
9. Compare and contrast empathic from sympathetic interactions
10. Demonstrate ability to lower high levels of emotional arousal
11. Demonstrate basic mentalizing techniques: empathy, clarification and exploration, “rewind,” “stop and stand,” and “challenge”
12. Practice the use of affect focus and perspective-taking
13. Recognize and formulate the interpersonal context underlying the loss of mentalizing
14. Evaluate suicidality as a loss of mentalization in the context of an attachment relationship
15. Construct a case formulation based on MBT developmental theory
16. Compare and contrast traditional use of transference to the MBT use of the relationship
17. Employ use of self-observation in work with a patient
18. Recognize in patients with trauma the role of the alien self
19. Implement the intervention algorithm of MBT
20. Implement MBT techniques into a group therapy practice
What’s Included
1. 3-day MBT- Basic training
2. 21 CE credits*
*The Mentalizing Initiative is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Mentalizing Initiative maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Please check with your licensing board for further information on CE requirements.
3. Mandatory Pre-requisite course: Introduction to MBT
Taught virtually by the faculty of the Mentalizing Initiative on one of the following dates:
NOTE: Sign-up information for the Intro to MBT prerequisite course will be emailed to you upon Basic course registration.
The MBT Intro course must be completed prior to the MBT Basic Course.
Instructor: Anthony Bateman MA, FRCPsych
Professor Bateman is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist and MBT coordinator, Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families; Visiting Professor University College, London; Honorary Professor in Psychotherapy University of Copenhagen.
He developed mentalization based treatment with Peter Fonagy for borderline personality disorder and studied its effectiveness in research trials. Adapted versions are now being used in multi-centre trials for antisocial personality disorder, eating disorders, and drug addiction. He was an expert member of National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) development group for treatment guidelines for Borderline Personality Disorder in UK and is currently Chair of the National Guideline Development Group for Eating Disorders. His NHS clinical services are recognised by the Department of Health as a national demonstration site for the treatment of personality disorder. He was President of the European Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (ESSPD) from 2012-2015.
He received a senior scientist award from British and Irish group for the Study of Personality Disorder in 2012 and in 2015 the annual award for “Achievement in the Field of Severe Personality Disorders” from the BPDRC in the USA.
He has authored 14 books including Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: mentalization based treatment and, most recently, Mentalization Based Treatment for Personality Disorder: a practical guide (2016) (with Peter Fonagy), numerous book chapters, and over 120 peer-reviewed research articles on personality disorder and the use of psychotherapy in psychiatric practice.
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s)* to disclose with ineligible companies* whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
*Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.
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Featured Speakers
Eia Asen
Peter Fonagy
Objectives
“MIST has the singular aim of supporting clients in identifying and overcoming barriers to mentalizing. The model holds an optimistic view of the mind assuming that recovery of mentalizing will ensure that solutions will be found, obstacles will be overcome and the natural healing process will occur”.
Eia Asen and Peter FonagyMentalization Based Treatment of Families, 2021
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Includes 25 CE credits
The Mentalizing Initiative (MI) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The MI maintains responsibility for the program and its content.
The Mentalizing Initiative (MI) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The MI maintains responsibility for the program and its content.
What is Mentalizing?
Mentalizing refers to our ability to attend to, and understand our behaviors and those of others on the basis of, mental states. This is the focus of MBT, which was initially developed by Drs. Anthony Bateman and Peter Fonagy for the treatment of borderline personality disorder (BPD) but now used in the treatment on a wide range of psychological disorders. MBT derived from early infant attachment and childhood development and interfaces with current research and social cognition . In this course, participants will learn how to recognize mentalizing vulnerabilities and implement MBT techniques in their work with high-conflict couples and families.
Common clinical situations are discussed and ‘role played’ to practice MBT techniques. Therapists are directed to focus on the patient’s mental state and on their understanding of here and now interactions with the patient. The therapist takes a ‘not knowing’ stance and yet explicitly develops with the patient or family alternative perspectives about what is happening. Participants will learn how to use their own experiences of the patient as a way of increasing mentalizing within therapeutic encounters. The course considers techniques, such as clarification, challenge and basic mentalizing in the context of some of the common clinical scenarios encountered in treatment with couples and families.
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This 10 session course meets on select Wednesdays beginning October 19, 2022 and includes 25 continuing education credits. Don’t miss this very special learning opportunity!
System Requirements
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