Mentalization-Based Treatment

This is a powerfully evidenced approach to psychotherapy for adults with Borderline Personality Disorder, first developed by Profs Anthony Bateman and Peter Fonagy.

It has produced some impressive results in a number of Randomised Controlled Trials, with long follow ups, and is one of a small number of NICE approved treatments for Borderline Personality Disorder. This approach has been adapted for use with Adolescents in MBT-A and a simple version is given here at MentalizationBasedWork - one of a wide range of Specific interventions in this manual.

Head of an expanding family of treatment approaches

Because the core principles of MBT are relevant beyond just the predicament of people with Borderline Personality Disorders, there are versions of MBT for a widening range of other disorders in adulthood, and latterly with children and adolescents (see MBT-F and MBT-A as well as AMBIT itself).