Machine generated contents note: Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Section I -- Chapter 1. Mentalization and Parental Reflective Functioning in the Context of Development -- Chapter 2. Our Mentalizing Framework: Building on a Foundation of Epistemic Trust and Mentalizing 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 -- Section II -- Chapter 6. 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 to 12) -- Chapter 10. Adolescence: Redefining Boundaries -- Chapter 11. David and Goliath: Mentalizing Young Adulthood -- Chapter 12. Couple Therapy with and for Parents -- Chapter 13. Concluding Remarks: Bringing It All Together Is Never Easy -- References -- Appendix: Assessment Measures and Treatment Adherence -- About the Authors.
Summary:
"This book presents parenthood as a developmental process that can be supported by a mentalization-based model of intervention"-- Provided by publisher. "This book provides the reader with principles to inform evaluation, formulation, and treatment in their work with parents. It offers 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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