mentalization-based treatment

(noun)

A psychiatric treatment model that combines individual and group therapy with case management.

Related Terms

  • psychodynamic

Examples of mentalization-based treatment in the following topics:

  • Defining Psychology

    • This field ultimately aims to benefit society, partly through its focus on better understanding of mental health and mental illness.
    • The resulting knowledge is then applied to various spheres of human activity, including the problems of individuals' daily lives and the treatment of mental illness.
    • Clinical psychology focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders and mental illness.
    • Psychologists working in a clinical capacity (such as therapists or counselors) work with clients who are struggling with mental illness to assess, diagnose, and implement various forms of therapeutic treatment.
    • Much of this treatment is based on clinical research.
  • Classifying Abnormal Behavior: The DSM

    • The first version of the DSM was created in response to the large-scale involvement of psychiatrists in the treatment, processing, and assessment of World War II soldiers.
    • One of the strengths of the DSM is its use in researching and developing evidence-based treatments.
    • As studies get published, mental-health service providers learn how to incorporate the most evidence-based treatments into their practice.
    • Providers must often use the DSM in order to get coverage for their clients from insurance companies, which require certain DSM diagnoses for treatment.
    • It claims to collect them together based on statistical or clinical patterns.
  • Introduction to Psychotherapy

    • Psychotherapy is defined by the interaction or treatment between a trained professional and a client, patient, family, couple, or group.
    • In the Western tradition, by the 19th century a mental-treatment movement (then referred to as "moral treatment") developed based on certain therapeutic methods.
    • Psychoanalysis is based on overcoming the desires and negative influences of the unconscious mind.
    • Psychotherapists employ a range of techniques based on experiential relationship-building, dialogue, communication, and behavior change that are designed to improve the mental health of a client or patient, or to improve group relationships (such as in a family).
    • Some dismiss psychotherapy altogether in favor of biomedical treatments.
  • Goals of Psychology

    • The overarching goal of psychology is to understand the behavior, mental functions, and emotional processes of human beings.
    • The overarching goal of psychology is to understand the behavior, mental functions, and emotional processes of human beings.
    • Psychologists usually work in one of three fields – basic research, mental health, or applied psychology.
    • Clinical psychology focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders, with much of this practice based on research.
    • Neuropsychology studies the brain involvement in mental processes.
  • Body-Oriented Psychotherapies

    • Body-oriented psychotherapies focus on the importance of working with the body in the treatment of mental health issues.
    • Psychotherapists employ a range of techniques based on experiential relationship-building, dialogue, communication, and behavior change that are designed to improve the mental health of a client or to improve family or group relationships (such as in a family).
    • Body-oriented therapies are based on the principles of somatic psychology, which was founded by Wilhelm Reich in the 1930s.
    • EMDR is commonly used in the treatment of psychological trauma, particularly post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex PTSD (C-PTSD).
    • Hatha yoga has been studied as an intervention for many mental health conditions, including stress and depression.
  • Influences of Culture and Gender in Psychotherapy

    • Cultural and gender norms significantly shape how mental illness as well as therapy and various other treatment methods are perceived.
    • For example, a counselor whose treatment focuses on individual decision-making may be ineffective at helping a Chinese client with a collectivist approach (or more group-based approach) to problem-solving (Sue, 2004).
    • Therapists who use multicultural therapy work with clients to obtain and integrate information about their cultural patterns into a unique treatment approach based on their particular situation.
    • This approach also examines how certain ethnicities in the United States are less likely to access mental health services than their White middle-class American counterparts.
    • Barriers to treatment include lack of insurance, transportation, and time; cultural views that mental illness is a stigma; fears about treatment; and language barriers.
  • Introduction to Biomedical Therapies

    • The mind and body are viewed as connected; poor physical health leads to poor mental health, and vice versa.
    • "Pharmacotherapy" refers to the use of medications in biomedical treatment.
    • Another biologically based treatment that continues to be used, although infrequently, is electroconvulsive therapy (ECT; formerly known by the unscientific name "electroshock therapy").
    • Psychosurgery, also called neurosurgery for mental disorder (NMD), is the neurosurgical treatment of mental illness.
    • These studies may compare outcomes of treatment with multiple medications.
  • Feeding Disorders

    • Feeding disorders are a type of eating disorder that prevents the consumption of certain foods, often based on color, texture, or other factors.
    • When the disorder occurs concurrently with another medical or mental condition, the disturbance must exceed what is normally caused by that condition.
    • Some children with ARFID benefit from a four stage in-home treatment program based on the principles of systematic desensitization.
    • The four stages of the treatment include record, reward, relax, and review:
    • Children with feeding disorders may refuse to eat certain foods based on color, texture, temperature, or other factors.
  • Decision Making

    • Heuristics are simple rules of thumb that people often use to form judgments and make decisions; think of them as mental shortcuts.
    • This is called the base-rate fallacy, and it is the cause of many negative stereotypes based on outward appearance.
    • It remains when the subjects are offered money as an incentive to be accurate, or when they are explicitly told not to base their judgment on the anchor.
    • Treatment A was predicted to result in 400 deaths, whereas Treatment B had a 33% chance that no one would die but a 66% chance that everyone would die.
    • Negative framing: "Treatment A will let 400 people die; Treatment B has a 33% chance of no one dying and a 66% chance of everyone dying."
  • Defining "Normal" and "Abnormal"

    • This internalization contributes to feelings of shame and usually leads to poorer treatment outcomes.
    • Refusal to receive treatment.
    • An individual's fear of stigmatization and alienation may lead them to refuse treatment altogether.
    • By causing people to not seek out treatment, society's stigma of mental illness leads to fewer diagnoses and fewer people getting help.
    • The National Alliance on Mental Illness aims to reduce societal stigma and shaming of various mental illnesses.
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