Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT): Basic Training Spring (Apr 2018)

Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT): Basic Training Spring is organized by McLean Hospital and will be held during Apr 19 - 21, 2018 at Conference Center at Waltham Woods, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America.

The target audience for this medical event is Psychotherapists. Psychologists. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 17.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.

Course Description:
This will be a 3 full-day intensive course specializing in Mentalization Based Therapy training for the treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder.

Common clinical situations are discussed and ‘role played’ to practice skills. MBT requires therapists to focus on the patient’s mental state and on their understanding of interactions with the patient. The therapist stance is of particular importance and differs from the usual therapist stance encountered in psychodynamic and cognitive therapies. It is more active and participatory than dynamic therapy but less specifically so than cognitive therapy and not only focuses on the mind of the patient but also openly juxtaposes the mind of the therapist with that of the patient/family.

This workshop will equip participants to understand :
• How mentalizing handicaps derive from early parent-child interactions
• How mentalizing failures reflect and cause insecure attachments
• How psychotherapeutic interventions are efforts to correct mentalizing & attachment handicaps

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.