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Learn more about Mentalization Based Treatment with an Anna Freud Centre Accredited MBT Practitioner, Supervisor and Trainer who works across the lifespan in both public and private practice.
Presented by Dr Celeste Benetti
MBT Australia Group; Peninsula Health, Alfred Health
This event will feature a presentation in an informal setting with audience discussion.
Venue:
The Terminus Hotel
492 Queens Parade, Fitzroy North VIC 3068
Please note that this event is hosted on level 1 of the venue and the only access is via the stairs.
Learn more about Mentalization Based Treatment with an Anna Freud Centre Accredited MBT Practitioner, Supervisor and Trainer who works across the lifespan in both public and private practice.
Although not an everyday word, mentalizing is a fundamental human activity. Imaginative and complex, yet often automatic. It is a task that is both most essential in our closest relationships, but also the most difficult with those that we are attached to.
Mentalization Based Treatment was developed in 1990s in the UK to treat Borderline Personality Disorder within their public sector. Designed to be provided by clinicians who were not traditionally psychotherapists, but instead psychiatric nurses, occupational therapists, social workers, and trainee doctors. It incorporates psychodynamic, attachment, systemic and cognitive behavioural theories.
Mentalizing involves understanding one’s own and others’ behaviours as meaningful based on underlying mental states: thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and attitudes. The ability to mentalize, either automatically or consciously, is impacted by stressful or emotionally charged situations.
It is theorized that people with BPD are vulnerable to poor mentalization due to a combination of factors including reduced baseline mentalizing capacity, emotional sensitivity, the impact of attachment styles, and stress-related disruption (Bateman & Fonagy, 2016). Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) is time-limited psychotherapy that uses structured intervention techniques to help individuals maintain their mentalizing when emotionally activated and regain their capacity to mentalize when it is lost. MBT has been shown to be an effective treatment for BPD both in adults and adolescents. MBT has been adapted to different ages and settings: MBT-Children; MBT-Adolescents; MBT-Families; MBT Couples; MBT-Parenting; and for teams (AMBIT). It has also been adapted to a range of presentations including: Antisocial PD; Narcissistic PD; Depression; Psychosis; Trauma; and Eating Disorders.
This presentation will provide the attendee with an overview of mentalizing, how mentalizing develops, the relationship between mentalizing and attachment, the impact of trauma on mentalizing, the mentalizing stance (dos and don’ts) and the key objectives of mentalization based treatment.
This event is hosted by the Vic Branch of AACBT.
About this event:
This event will feature a presentation in an informal setting with audience discussion.
Please note that this event is hosted on level 1 of the venue and the only access is via the stairs.
Key Learning Objectives
This session is designed for all practitioners - attendees will be assumed to have an interest in CBT.
References - readings
Celeste Benetti is a Clinical Psychologist in Melbourne, Australia. She is an accredited MBT Practitioner, Supervisor, and Trainer. She has supervised and coordinated Public Area Mental Health Service MBT Programs in Australia and internationally. Celeste has worked with young people and adults with complex trauma and Borderline Personality Disorder and their families for over 15 years.
She is the Discipline Senior for Psychology for Peninsula Health’s Mental health and Wellbeing Services, supporting psychologists and delivering of therapeutic interventions across all ages and across inpatient, community and emergency settings.
In 2019 Celeste implemented the MBT Families and Carers Training and Support Programme (MBT-FACTS) through Alfred CYMHS as a delayed treatment Randomized Control Trial and has presented qualitative research outcomes from the perspectives of young people at conferences. Celeste continues this research with an Honorary Researcher position at The Alfred.
Additionally, she works in private practice with adults, adolescents, parents, and families and provides MBT individual and group supervision. Celeste has experience in supervising clinicians who work in a range of settings including private practice, public area mental health services in Australia and internationally, private inpatient settings, and forensic treatment settings.
Are there any refunds?
Cancellations attract a 25% processing fee. Cancellations within one week of the event attract a 50% processing fee. Cancellations within 24 hours of the event will not be refunded under any circumstances. If you wish to transfer the name of your registration to someone else there is no charge.
