Full Description
Childhood has long been recognized as a developmental process. This book examines parenting through a similar lens, offering mental health providers a mentalizing framework for working with parents at all stages of parental development.
Parenting is a developmental process that fluctuates and transforms throughout the lifespan. To support working with parents, the authors present a mentalizing approach that considers the current socio-cultural environment and its impact on the developmental process of parenting. This approach integrates a wealth of psychodynamic clinical research, theory, and practice.
This book provides the reader with principles to inform evaluation, formulation, and treatment in their work with parents. It provides clinical examples followed by clinical formulations offering illustrations of the application of one approach to diverse clinical challenges in the context of working with parents, grandparents, and other caregivers.
Contents
Foreword
Peter Fonagy
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Our Framework to Mentalization-Based Therapy With Parents
I. A MENTALIZATION-BASED FRAMEWORK FOR WORKING WITH PARENTS
Chapter . Mentalization and Parental Reflective Functioning in the Context of Development
Chapter 2. Our Mentalizing Framework: Building on a Foundation of Epistemic Trust and Mentalized Affectivity
Chapter 3. Developmental Psychopathology: Ghosts in the Nursery
Chapter 4. Assessment With Parents From a Mentalizing Approach
Chapter 5. Mentalization-Informed Treatment With Parents: A Scaffolding Process
II. MENTALIZING PARENTING ACROSS THE LIFESPAN
Chapter . Parenting Today
Chapter 7. Just a Twinkle in My Eye: Mentalizing and the Transition to Parenthood
Chapter 8. Learning to Let Your Child Walk Away and Come Back: Mentalizing the Toddler Years
Chapter 9. Working With Parents of School-Age Children (5- 2)
Chapter . Adolescence: Redefining Boundaries
Chapter . David and Goliath: Mentalizing Young Adulthood
Chapter 2. Couples Therapy With and for Parents
Chapter 3. Concluding Remarks: Bringing It All Together Is Never Easy
Appendix A: Assessment Measures for Mentalizing Reflective Functioning
Appendix B: Mentalizing-Informed Work With Parents-Assessment and Formulation Worksheet
Appendix C: Mentalizing-Informed Work With Parents Adherence Scale
References
Index
About the Authors
