Adaptive Mentalization Based Integrative Treatment (AMBIT)

AMBIT is an approach to support teams develop systems of help around particularly vulnerable, excluded, and underserved clients and whose many difficulties often attract large numbers of different teams and professionals which may sometimes be rather overwhelming to the very people we are trying to help.

What is AMBIT?

AMBIT is designed for clients who have multiple and often overlapping and intersecting needs, who often present with significant risk, and for whom accessing and using ‘conventional’ forms of help may be particularly challenging.

Who is AMBIT for?

There is compelling evidence for the relevance of mentalizing as having a key role in the help seeking processes, especially the establishment of trust (specifically “epistemic trust”).

Does AMBIT work?

The AMBIT programme at the Anna Freud Centre offers a wide range of different ways to help disseminate AMBIT ideas and practices to the diverse kinds of teams and workers that have benefited from this approach. We distinguish between trainings, teaching, consultation to teams.

Training, consultation and supervision

AMBIT is developed by the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, and is comprised of a team of experts and a large and growing community of practice whose feedback continues to support the development of the model of practice.

Meet the AMBIT programme team

Our monthly AMBIT space has changed in format from ‘webinar’ to ’meeting’, to better support our ‘community of practice’. This is a principle that sits at the heart of the AMBIT framework. It's a chance to meet, talk and share with others around the world doing similar work to you, and of course us - the AMBIT programme team.

AMBIT gathering