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Mentalization-based Treatment for Families

Length: 2 days
Location: Anna Freud Centre
Tutor(s): Pasco Fearon, Emma Keaveny, Dickon Bevington, Sally Wood or Nick Midgley
Start time: 09:00
End time: 17:00
Timetable: Download timetable

The course will cover the theory and research base of mentalisation-based therapy with families, with an introduction to some of the core clinical skills used in MBT-F. The primary focus will be on the clinical practice of MBT-F.

Please note that this is a different course to Peter Fonagy & Anthony Bateman's Mentalization Based Therapy training.

Who is this course suitable for?

Applicants should have a mental health qualification e.g. psychology, counselling, psychiatry, nursing, social work, and should have experience of working therapeutically with people with families. The course assumes prior experience of therapeutic work with children and/or families and does not provide an introduction at this level.

Aims of course

The aim of the course is to provide mental health professionals with an introduction to the Mentalization Based Therapy for Families (MBT-F) model, and how to apply the approach to children and their families with a range of emotional and behavioural difficulties.

Advanced Practice: Third Day

On 12th July 2012 we will be holding an 'Advanced Practice' day, only open to those who have completed the two-day course. This course will allow intensive practice of a wider range of MBT-F techniques, games, activities, under the supervision of MBT-F trainers and members of the Anna Freud Centre MBFT team. There will be a small amount of didactic teaching, but the emphasis will be on practice through role play, examination of video and case discussion. Participants are requested to bring case material from family work they are doing.