Mentalizing and Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT) Seminar 4

Join us on this series to equip you with further knowledge, understanding and continue your development in mentalizing.

About this seminar series

If we are mentalizing successfully, we are able to understand what is going on in our own minds and in the minds of other people, and realise how this is affecting the emotions, thoughts, and actions of ourselves and others. This understanding of our own perspectives as well as those of other people leads to more successful interactions and social relationships.

Join us on this series to equip you with further knowledge, understanding and continue your development in mentalizing. Each half day seminar will encompass two topics accompanied by group discussion. We will invite participants to take part in small group work and encourage active participation.

This 4th Seminar in our series will be delivered by professors Martin Debbane, Nader Perroud and Svenja Taubner.

About this seminar

Since its inception the capacity to mentalize, as conceptualized by Fonagy and colleagues, is proposed to rest upon three main developmental pillars: affect representation, reflective function and attentional control. Curiously, attentional control has been left out of the focus of both mentalization-informed research and mentalization-based therapy manuals. Additionally, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorders along the lifespan have been timidly approached by clinicians trained in MBT. In this presentation, we will present some recent work on the relationships entertained between attention control and mentalizing. Pr Perroud and Debbané will briefly survey empirical research demonstrating the close ties mentalizing entertains with attentional control along the lifespan. They will then present the therapeutic framework developed and researched over the past 8 years, and some preliminary results which suggests that MBT may hold value in the clinical management of ADHD along the lifespan.

MBT has since its development focused on problems in personality functioning related to impulsive self-destructive or other-destructive behavior. As such, MBT has been applied to Anti-Social-Personality Disorder and recently to conduct disorder in adolescents. Prof. Taubner will present the clinical model how to adress violent behavior in adolescents and their families effectively by summarizing the research and showing clinical vignettes.

Timetable

14.00-15.45 - Mentalizing and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). - Profs Martin Debbane and Nader Perroud

BREAK

16.15-18.00 - Mentalizing and conduct disorder - Prof Svenja Taubner

Aims of this seminar

To develop clinical skills.
To gain further knowledge on Mentalizing and MBT.
To gain an understanding on developments and clinical research on Mentalizing.
An opportunity to engage in discussion and small group work with leading speakers.

Who is this seminar for?

The series is designed and suitable for those who have a working knowledge of Mentalizing and MBT, those who are engaged in areas of psychological treatments and research, and anyone who is interested in learning more about Mentalizing and MBT as part of their personal programme of continuing professional development.

Martin Debbané
Prof. Martin Debbané is Professor of Psychopathology at the Research Department of Clinical, Educational, and Health Psychology, University College London (UK), and at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva (Switzerland). With Mario Speranza, he co-founded (2016) the French speaking MBT Network (réseau francophone des thérapies basées sur la mentalization, RF-TBM) based at the University of Geneva. Martin Debbané and his team conduct training and supervision in MBT (basic, practitioner, supervision, family, adolescents) for practitioners in Geneva, Paris, and other francophone countries globally. His research involves a number of longitudinal projects following youth cohorts with clinical risk (schizotypy, borderline, ADHD, antisocial traits and trauma) for severe psychopathology. He is a trained and licensed psychodynamic psychotherapist. He acts as associate and trainer in mentalization-based therapies at Anna Freud in London. He teaches, practices and supervises mentalization-based psychotherapy with adolescent and adult patients.
Nadar Perroud
Nader Perroud is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva, Switzerland in the Department of Psychiatry, and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada). He is particularly interested in psychiatric pathologies characterized by difficulties in managing emotions such as borderline personality disorder and attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Among other things, he participated in the implementation, in French-speaking countries, of specific psychotherapeutic approaches for borderline personality disorder, including dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) and, with Professor Martin Debbané, mentalization-based treatment (MBT). Nader Perroud focuses his research on borderline personality disorder as well as on ADHD and on the mechanisms involved in the regulation of emotions. His latest work has been oriented towards a better understanding of the psychotherapeutic factors favouring a better regulation of emotions.
Svenja Taubner
Svenja Taubner is a psychoanalyst, full professor and director at the Institute for Psychosocial Prevention at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. Among her many interests is clinical applications, development and research on mentalization based treatments (MBT) for adolescents with externalizing problems and violent behaviour. She is an accredited trainer and supervisor of MBT and currently president of the MBT-D-A-CH (MBT association in German-speaking countries).
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