The Resilience Program: preliminary evaluation of a mentalization-based education program

Bak, Poul Lundgaard; Midgley, Nick; Wistoft, Karen; Obel, Carsten

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00753

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“…A total of 152 abstracts were read through and from this 34 studies were included in this review. Studies in the process of recruiting at time of writing (Families First, Kalland et al, 2016; The Resilience Program, Bak et al, 2015) were not included. Similarly, studies that focused on improving RF but using an intervention that was not derived from mentalization theory (such as Developmental Individual-Difference, Relationship-Based/Floortime (DIR/FT), Sealy & Glovinsky, 2016) were not included in this review.…”

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Mentalization-based treatments with children and families: A systematic review of the literature

Byrne

Murphy

Connon

2020

Clin Child Psychol Psychiatry

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Objectives: Over the past decade, mentalization-based treatment (MBT) approaches have been developed specifically for children, adolescents and families. This study provides a systematic review of MBT applicable to both children and families. Method: Five databases were searched to identify reports of MBT studies published up to February 2020. Studies were screened and reported according to PRISMA guidelines. Results: A total of 34 studies were included in this review. Of these, 14 focused on parent–child dyads, two on child therapy, seven applied the approach to parenting, four evaluated the application of MBT to the school environment and seven focused on adolescent populations. Conclusion: Despite methodological shortcomings and heterogeneity in design, the existing literature does provide tentative support for the use of MBT approaches for these populations, specifically in increasing mentalizing/reflective functioning. Further controlled and methodologically rigorous studies are required.

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Mentalization-based treatments with children and families: A systematic review of the literature

Byrne

Murphy

Connon

2020

Clin Child Psychol Psychiatry

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“…The awareness of one’s own and others’ mental states not only allows the understanding and prediction of human behavior, but it is related to good social functioning and mental health [ 15 – 17 ]. By contrast, evidence supports that MZ impairment is related to several psychopathological conditions [ 18 ].…”

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Childhood behavioral inhibition is associated with impaired mentalizing in adolescence

Ballespí

Pérez-Domingo²,

Vives

et al. 2018

PLoS ONE

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Recent advances suggest that impairment in social cognition (SC) may play a role in the development of social anxiety (SA). However, very few studies have analyzed whether SA fosters poorer social-cognitive development as it leads to social avoidance. This study aimed to analyze whether retrospectively assessed behavioral inhibition (BI) (i.e., an early form of SA) in childhood is associated with a deficit in social cognition operationalized as impairment of mentalizing (MZ) in adolescence. A sample of 256 adolescents (range: 12–18 years; mean age: 14.7 years; SD = 1.7) from general population were assessed for MZ capacities and retrospective BI through self-report and interview measures. Results comparing three groups of adolescents with different levels of childhood BI (low, moderate or high) and controlling for concurrent SA and depression reveal that the higher the level of BI, the lower the level of MZ. These results were consistent for almost all mentalization measures, including when both extreme (i.e., high vs. low BI) and non-extreme (i.e., high vs. moderate BI) were compared in both self-report and interview measures and in both dimensions of MZ (i.e., MZ referred to others’ and to own mental states). These findings support that childhood forms of SA are associated to deficit in SC in adolescence. A possible bi-directional relationship between SA and SC, and the role that it may play in the pathway to clinical SA are discussed.

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“…Resilient individuals, who use positive emotions to cope with negative events [15] as suggested by the broadenand-build theory [16,17], might have a lower risk to experience disability due to symptoms. Variables related to resilience especially relevant for the study at hand are selfefficacy [18,19] and mentalization [20,21] as we investigated whether these 2 variables mediate the association between psychological symptom severity and disabilities in activities and participation.…”

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Mentalization and Self-Efficacy as Mediators between Psychological Symptom Severity and Disabilities in Activities and Participation in Psychotherapy Patients

Probst

Dehoust²,

Brütt

et al. 2018

Psychopathology

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Background: Psychotherapy patients can be more or less disabled by their psychological symptoms. The present study investigated whether mentalization and self-efficacy contribute to the association between psychological symptom severity and disabilities in activities and participation. Methods: The data of 216 psychotherapy inpatients were examined in a cross-sectional design. Bootstrapping-enhanced mediation analyses were performed to investigate whether self-efficacy and mentalization are mediators between psychological symptom severity and disabilities in activities and participation. The Hamburg Modules for the Assessment of Psychosocial Health-49 were used to measure psychological symptom severity and self-efficacy, mentalization was assessed with the Mentalization Questionnaire, and disabilities in activities and participation were operationalized with the ICF-Mental-A & P questionnaire. Results: Mentalization as well as self-efficacy functioned as mediators between psychological symptom severity and disabilities in activities and participation (p < 0.05). They were equally strong mediators, and both remained significant mediators when statistically controlling for the other mediator (p < 0.05). Conclusions: Mentalization as well as self-efficacy explain a significant proportion of the relationship between psychological symptom severity and disabilities in activities and participation. Working on mentalizing and self-efficacy might be important mechanisms to reduce disability due to symptoms. The cross-sectional design is a limitation of the study.

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The Resilience Program: preliminary evaluation of a mentalization-based education program

Cited by 28 publications

References 28 publications

Mentalization-based treatments with children and families: A systematic review of the literature

Mentalization-based treatments with children and families: A systematic review of the literature

Childhood behavioral inhibition is associated with impaired mentalizing in adolescence

Mentalization and Self-Efficacy as Mediators between Psychological Symptom Severity and Disabilities in Activities and Participation in Psychotherapy Patients

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