Minding the Child by Vrouva Ioanna. Midgley Nick

Minding the Child by Vrouva Ioanna. Midgley Nick

Author:Vrouva, Ioanna.,Midgley, Nick
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)


The MBT-F loop

The MBT-F loop (Figure 5.1) is a framework that allows therapists to structure sessions, or at least parts of sessions, to best support both their own and the family's mentalizing. This provides a route map that can be followed.

Figure 5.1 The MBT-F loop

These steps are not a simple cycle, but are better conceived of as a spiral; a return to a previous step is never quite the same, as this can only occur in the context of shared experiences and learning that were not present at the first pass. At each or at any step it is possible to use specific mentalizing techniques which aim to stimulate mentalizing within the family.

To explain the usefulness of the MBT-F loop, the model is presented here in a linear fashion, starting from how the therapist uses his process observation(s) of intra-family interactions and/or communication exchanges and how he feeds this back to the family, in an attempt to activate reflexive process in each family member. In practice the MBT-F loop is much more fluid and encourages the creative use of links.



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