22nd November 2017
This is a necessarily abbreviated list of references and influences - mainly including systemic rather than cognitive behavioural or psychodynamic references, although these are certainly also highly influential on the model.
The developers of Mentalization-based practices are at pains to repeat that in many important ways there is nothing new in theories of mentalizing, and its application in therapeutic work. Indeed, Prof Fonagy has written that
Bevington, Fuggle, Cracknell and Fonagy (2017) Adaptive Mentalization Based Integrative Treatment: a guide for teams to develop systems of care. (Book, pub. OUP) - as at 2017, and except for this online manual, this is the most complete description of AMBIT. Note the name-change from "Adoelescent.." to "Adaptive..." - there are many teams working with other age groups using AMBIT nowadays.
Bevington, Fuggle, Fonagy (2015) Applying attachment theory to effective practice with hard-to-reach youth: the AMBIT approach
Bevington D, Fuggle P (2012) Supporting and enhancing mentalization in community outreach teams...
Bevington et al (2012) Adolescent Mentalization-Based Integrative Therapy (AMBIT)
Asen, Bevington (2007) Barefoot practitioners
Fuggle et al (2014) The AMBIT approach to outcome evaluation and manualization: adopting a learning organization approach
Griffiths et al (2016) Innovations in Practice: evaluating clinical outcome and service utilization in an AMBIT-trained Tier 4 CAMHS service.
Account of AMBIT presentation - ACAMH magazine (Autumn 2013)
Krueger and Glass (2013) Integrative Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents: A practice-oriented literature review
Gilvarry et al (2012) Practice standards for young people with substance misuse problems
CSJ (2012) Rules of Engagement: Changing the heart of youth justice
Khan et al (2010) You just get on and do it: healthcare provision in Youth Offending Teams
Siri (2012) Mentalization-based therapy for adolescents
Straussner and Fewell (2011) Children of Substance-Abusing Parents: Dynamics and Treatment
Bachler (2014) Differential effects of the working alliance in family therapeutic home-based treatment of multi-problem families
Ungar et al (2013) Service use, risk factors and resilience in adolescents using multiple services
Bearman et al (2010) Adapting CBT to fit diverse youths and contexts: applying the deployment-focused model...
Chorpita, Daleiden and Weisz (2005)
Weisz, Simpson-Gray (2008) Evidence-Based Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents
Weisz, Jensen-Doss, Hawley (2006) Evidence-based youth psychotherapies versus Usual Care
Rossouw, Fonagy (2012) Mentalization-based treatment for self-harm in adolescents: a randomized controlled trial
Fearon, P., Target, M., Sargent, J., Williams, L. L., McGregor, J., Bleiberg, E., et al. (2006). Short-Term Mentalization and Relational Therapy (SMART): An Integrative Family Therapy for Children and Adolescents. In J. G. Allen & P. Fonagy (Eds.), Handbook of Mentalization Based Treatment. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
Asen, E., & Fonagy, P. (In press) Mentalization-based Therapeutic Interventions for families. Journal of Family Therapy, x, 1-24.
Keaveny, E., Midgley, N., Asen, E., Bevington, D., Fearon, P., Fonagy, P., Jennings-Hobbs, J. & Wood, S. (2012) Minding the Family Mind: The development and evaluation of Mentalization Based Treatment for Families at the Anna Freud Centre in London. In N. Midgley & I. Vrouva (Eds.), Minding the Child: Mentalization-based Interventions with Children, Young People and their Families. London: Routledge.
Allen, J.G., and Fonagy P., (Eds.) Handbook of Mentalization-Based Treatment, 2006, Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons
Bateman, A., & Fonagy, P. (2004). Mentalization based treatment of borderline personality disorder. Journal of Personality Disorder, 18, 36-51.
Choi-Kain, Gunderson (2008) Mentalization: ontogeny, assessment, and application - good on the overlapping concepts of mindfulness, empathy, etc.
Fonagy, P., Bateman, A., & Bateman, A. (2011) Commentary: The widening scope of mentalizing: A discussion. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 84, 98-110.
Fonagy, P., Gergely, G., Jurist,E., and Target, M. Affect Regulation, Mentalization, and the Development of the Self, pub. 2002 by Other Press
Fonagy, P., Steele, H., Moran, G., Steele, M., & Higgitt, A. (1991). The capacity for understanding mental states: The reflective self in parent and child and its significance for security of attachment. Infant Mental Health Journal, 13, 200-217.
Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (1996). Playing with reality I: Theory of mind and the normal development of psychic reality. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 77, 217-233.
Gergely, G (2004) The social construction of the subjective self
Luyten, P., Mayes, L., Fonagy, P., & Van Houdenhove, B. (2009) The interpersonal regulation of stress. Unpublished manuscript.
Cole, M (2009) Using Wiki technology to support student engagement: Lessons from the trenches
Lave and Wenger (1991). Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation
Seddon, J. (2008) Systems Thinking in the Public Sector
Senge (2006, 2nd edition) The Fifth Discipline: the Art and Practice of the Learning Organisation. Random House Business Books
Kyratsis Y, Ahmad R, Holmes A (2012) Technology adoption and implementation in organisations - BMJ
Jason Shaw (2013) Developing a Hypertext Educational Environment using TiddlySpace
Byng-Hall, J. (1995). Rewriting Family Scripts. New York, London: Guilford Press. New York, London: Guilford Press.
Cecchin, G. (1987). Hypothesising, circularity and neutrality revisited: an invitation to curiosity. Family Process, 26, 405-413.
de Shazer, S. (1982). Patterns of Brief Therapy: An Ecosystemic Approach. New York: Guilford Press.
Diamond, G. S., & Josephson, A. (2005). Family based treatment research: a 10 year update. Journal of American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 44(9), 872-887.
Donovan, M. (2009). Reflecting processes and reflective functioning: shared concerns and challenges in systemic and psychoanalytic therapeutic practice. In C. Flaskas & D. Pocock (Eds.), Systems and Psychoanalysis. Contemporary Integrations in Family Therapy. London: Karnac.
Larner, G. (2000). Towards a common ground in psychoanalysis and family therapy: on knowing not to know. Journal of Family Therapy, 22, 61-82.
Mason, B (1993) Towards positions of Safe Uncertainty
Minuchin, S. (1974). Families and Family Therapy. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
Pocock, D. (2009). Working with emotional systems: four new maps. In C. Flaskas & D. Pocock (Eds.), Systems and Psychoanalysis. Contemporary Integrations in Family Therapy. London: Karnac.
Rober, P. (1999). The therapist's inner conversation in family therapy practice: some ideas about the self of the therapist, therapeutic impasse and the process of reflection. Family Process, 38, 209-228.
Selvini Palazzoli, M., Boscolo, L., Cecchin, G., & Prata, G. (1980). Hypothesizing-circularity-neutrality; three guidelines for the conductor of the session. Family Process, 19, 3-12.
Fonagy, Cottrell, Phillips, Bevington, Glaser and Allison (2014) What Works for Whom
Attride-Stirling, J. (2002). Development of methods to capture users' views of child and adolescent mental health services in clinical governance reviews: Commission for Health Improvement.
Goals-based outcome measures - Report, ed. Duncan Law, chair of the CO-OP group in Child IAPT (UK): A Practical Guide to Using Service User Feedback & Outcome Tools to Inform Clinical Practice in Child & Adolescent Mental Health (2012).
Gowers, S. G., Harrington, R. C., Whitton, A., Lelliott, P., Beevor, A., Wing, J., et al. (1999). Brief Scale for measuring the outcomes of emotional and behavioural disorders in children: Health of the Nation Outcome Scales for Children and Adolescents (HoNOSCA). British Journal of Psychiatry, 174(5), 413-416.
Shaffer, D., Gould, M. S., Brasic, J., Ambrosini, P., Fisher, P., Bird, H. R., et al. (1983). A Children’s Global Assessmemt Scale (CGAS). Archives of General Psychiatry, 40, 1228-1231.
Target M, Fonagy P. Raters’ Manual for the Hampstead Child Adaptation Measure (HCAM). 1992.
Eilis Kennedy and Nick Midgley (Eds.) "Process and Outcome Research in Child, Adolescent and Parent-Infant Psychotherapy: A Thematic Review" Pub. North Central London Strategic Health Authority March 2007 - includes a review of HCAM (adapted into the AIM for AMBIT) - "A comprehensive coding scheme, with a highly detailed rating manual, has been developed and preliminary investigations of the HCAM’s psychometric properties have been good. The HCAM rating scale was used as part of the Anna Freud Centre's Retrospective Study (Target and Fonagy, 1994; Fonagy and Target, 1994) and was shown to be a clinically-significant measure of overall functioning."
Schneider, T. (2000). Measuring adaptation in middle childhood: the development of the Hampstead Child Adaptation Measure. Unpublished PhD thesis, University College London
The developers of Mentalization-based practices are at pains to repeat that in many important ways there is nothing new in theories of mentalizing, and its application in therapeutic work. Indeed, Prof Fonagy has written that
"mentalization-based therapy is the least novel approach imaginable..."There is a reasonable argument to be made that most therapeutic approaches, insofar as they are successful, are probably acting by stimulating, or repairing mentalizing function. The only difference in the MB approaches is the extent to which this function is explicitly focused on as the target for treatment, and to some extent the 'stance' and core features that support this.
AMBIT - specific references
Bevington, Fuggle, Cracknell and Fonagy (2017) Adaptive Mentalization Based Integrative Treatment: a guide for teams to develop systems of care. (Book, pub. OUP) - as at 2017, and except for this online manual, this is the most complete description of AMBIT. Note the name-change from "Adoelescent.." to "Adaptive..." - there are many teams working with other age groups using AMBIT nowadays.
Bevington, Fuggle, Fonagy (2015) Applying attachment theory to effective practice with hard-to-reach youth: the AMBIT approach
Bevington D, Fuggle P (2012) Supporting and enhancing mentalization in community outreach teams...
Bevington et al (2012) Adolescent Mentalization-Based Integrative Therapy (AMBIT)
Asen, Bevington (2007) Barefoot practitioners
Fuggle et al (2014) The AMBIT approach to outcome evaluation and manualization: adopting a learning organization approach
Griffiths et al (2016) Innovations in Practice: evaluating clinical outcome and service utilization in an AMBIT-trained Tier 4 CAMHS service.
References to AMBIT in other (independent) reviews, etc
Account of AMBIT presentation - ACAMH magazine (Autumn 2013)
Krueger and Glass (2013) Integrative Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents: A practice-oriented literature review
Gilvarry et al (2012) Practice standards for young people with substance misuse problems
CSJ (2012) Rules of Engagement: Changing the heart of youth justice
Khan et al (2010) You just get on and do it: healthcare provision in Youth Offending Teams
Siri (2012) Mentalization-based therapy for adolescents
Straussner and Fewell (2011) Children of Substance-Abusing Parents: Dynamics and Treatment
Selected other interventions with/studies on hard to reach/under-served families
Bachler (2014) Differential effects of the working alliance in family therapeutic home-based treatment of multi-problem families
Ungar et al (2013) Service use, risk factors and resilience in adolescents using multiple services
Deployment-Focused treatment development:
Bearman et al (2010) Adapting CBT to fit diverse youths and contexts: applying the deployment-focused model...
Chorpita, Daleiden and Weisz (2005)
Weisz, Simpson-Gray (2008) Evidence-Based Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents
Weisz, Jensen-Doss, Hawley (2006) Evidence-based youth psychotherapies versus Usual Care
MBT-Adolescents (MBT-A) References
- See also MBT-A and MentalizationBasedWork
Rossouw, Fonagy (2012) Mentalization-based treatment for self-harm in adolescents: a randomized controlled trial
MBT-F Specific References
- See also MBT-F and FamilyWork
Fearon, P., Target, M., Sargent, J., Williams, L. L., McGregor, J., Bleiberg, E., et al. (2006). Short-Term Mentalization and Relational Therapy (SMART): An Integrative Family Therapy for Children and Adolescents. In J. G. Allen & P. Fonagy (Eds.), Handbook of Mentalization Based Treatment. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
Asen, E., & Fonagy, P. (In press) Mentalization-based Therapeutic Interventions for families. Journal of Family Therapy, x, 1-24.
Keaveny, E., Midgley, N., Asen, E., Bevington, D., Fearon, P., Fonagy, P., Jennings-Hobbs, J. & Wood, S. (2012) Minding the Family Mind: The development and evaluation of Mentalization Based Treatment for Families at the Anna Freud Centre in London. In N. Midgley & I. Vrouva (Eds.), Minding the Child: Mentalization-based Interventions with Children, Young People and their Families. London: Routledge.
Mentalization References
Allen, J.G., and Fonagy P., (Eds.) Handbook of Mentalization-Based Treatment, 2006, Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons
Bateman, A., & Fonagy, P. (2004). Mentalization based treatment of borderline personality disorder. Journal of Personality Disorder, 18, 36-51.
Choi-Kain, Gunderson (2008) Mentalization: ontogeny, assessment, and application - good on the overlapping concepts of mindfulness, empathy, etc.
Fonagy, P., Bateman, A., & Bateman, A. (2011) Commentary: The widening scope of mentalizing: A discussion. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 84, 98-110.
Fonagy, P., Gergely, G., Jurist,E., and Target, M. Affect Regulation, Mentalization, and the Development of the Self, pub. 2002 by Other Press
Fonagy, P., Steele, H., Moran, G., Steele, M., & Higgitt, A. (1991). The capacity for understanding mental states: The reflective self in parent and child and its significance for security of attachment. Infant Mental Health Journal, 13, 200-217.
Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (1996). Playing with reality I: Theory of mind and the normal development of psychic reality. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 77, 217-233.
Gergely, G (2004) The social construction of the subjective self
Luyten, P., Mayes, L., Fonagy, P., & Van Houdenhove, B. (2009) The interpersonal regulation of stress. Unpublished manuscript.
Learning Organisations, Communities of Practice, Wikis as learning aids
Cole, M (2009) Using Wiki technology to support student engagement: Lessons from the trenches
Lave and Wenger (1991). Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation
Seddon, J. (2008) Systems Thinking in the Public Sector
Senge (2006, 2nd edition) The Fifth Discipline: the Art and Practice of the Learning Organisation. Random House Business Books
Kyratsis Y, Ahmad R, Holmes A (2012) Technology adoption and implementation in organisations - BMJ
Jason Shaw (2013) Developing a Hypertext Educational Environment using TiddlySpace
Systemic References
Byng-Hall, J. (1995). Rewriting Family Scripts. New York, London: Guilford Press. New York, London: Guilford Press.
Cecchin, G. (1987). Hypothesising, circularity and neutrality revisited: an invitation to curiosity. Family Process, 26, 405-413.
de Shazer, S. (1982). Patterns of Brief Therapy: An Ecosystemic Approach. New York: Guilford Press.
Diamond, G. S., & Josephson, A. (2005). Family based treatment research: a 10 year update. Journal of American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 44(9), 872-887.
Donovan, M. (2009). Reflecting processes and reflective functioning: shared concerns and challenges in systemic and psychoanalytic therapeutic practice. In C. Flaskas & D. Pocock (Eds.), Systems and Psychoanalysis. Contemporary Integrations in Family Therapy. London: Karnac.
Larner, G. (2000). Towards a common ground in psychoanalysis and family therapy: on knowing not to know. Journal of Family Therapy, 22, 61-82.
Mason, B (1993) Towards positions of Safe Uncertainty
Minuchin, S. (1974). Families and Family Therapy. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
Pocock, D. (2009). Working with emotional systems: four new maps. In C. Flaskas & D. Pocock (Eds.), Systems and Psychoanalysis. Contemporary Integrations in Family Therapy. London: Karnac.
Rober, P. (1999). The therapist's inner conversation in family therapy practice: some ideas about the self of the therapist, therapeutic impasse and the process of reflection. Family Process, 38, 209-228.
Selvini Palazzoli, M., Boscolo, L., Cecchin, G., & Prata, G. (1980). Hypothesizing-circularity-neutrality; three guidelines for the conductor of the session. Family Process, 19, 3-12.
General Evidence-based practice references
There are too many to reference here, but we refer readers (with apologies for blatant partiality) to the forthcoming title:Fonagy, Cottrell, Phillips, Bevington, Glaser and Allison (2014) What Works for Whom
Evaluation References
Attride-Stirling, J. (2002). Development of methods to capture users' views of child and adolescent mental health services in clinical governance reviews: Commission for Health Improvement.
Goals-based outcome measures - Report, ed. Duncan Law, chair of the CO-OP group in Child IAPT (UK): A Practical Guide to Using Service User Feedback & Outcome Tools to Inform Clinical Practice in Child & Adolescent Mental Health (2012).
Gowers, S. G., Harrington, R. C., Whitton, A., Lelliott, P., Beevor, A., Wing, J., et al. (1999). Brief Scale for measuring the outcomes of emotional and behavioural disorders in children: Health of the Nation Outcome Scales for Children and Adolescents (HoNOSCA). British Journal of Psychiatry, 174(5), 413-416.
Shaffer, D., Gould, M. S., Brasic, J., Ambrosini, P., Fisher, P., Bird, H. R., et al. (1983). A Children’s Global Assessmemt Scale (CGAS). Archives of General Psychiatry, 40, 1228-1231.
Target M, Fonagy P. Raters’ Manual for the Hampstead Child Adaptation Measure (HCAM). 1992.
Eilis Kennedy and Nick Midgley (Eds.) "Process and Outcome Research in Child, Adolescent and Parent-Infant Psychotherapy: A Thematic Review" Pub. North Central London Strategic Health Authority March 2007 - includes a review of HCAM (adapted into the AIM for AMBIT) - "A comprehensive coding scheme, with a highly detailed rating manual, has been developed and preliminary investigations of the HCAM’s psychometric properties have been good. The HCAM rating scale was used as part of the Anna Freud Centre's Retrospective Study (Target and Fonagy, 1994; Fonagy and Target, 1994) and was shown to be a clinically-significant measure of overall functioning."
Schneider, T. (2000). Measuring adaptation in middle childhood: the development of the Hampstead Child Adaptation Measure. Unpublished PhD thesis, University College London