The role of mentalization in child psychotherapy, interpersonal trauma, and recovery: A scoping review.

D Oehlman Forbes, M Lee, R Lakeman - Psychotherapy, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Children who are exposed to trauma often develop difficulties with reflective functioning,
affect, and emotion regulation. These problems are thought to arise from and are reflective of …

Culture and psychopathology: An attempt at reconsidering the role of social learning

P Fonagy, C Campbell, M Constantinou… - Development and …, 2022 - cambridge.org
This paper proposes a model for developmental psychopathology that is informed by recent
research suggestive of a single model of mental health disorder (the p factor) and seeks to …

Maternal and child reflective functioning in the context of child sexual abuse: Pathways to depression and externalising difficulties

K Ensink, M Bégin, L Normandin… - European journal of …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Background Sexual abuse is a well-recognised risk factor for child psychopathology. Little is
known regarding whether child and maternal mentalization can be considered a potential …

The French version of the Reflective Functioning Questionnaire: Validity data for adolescents and adults and its association with non-suicidal self-injury

D Badoud, P Luyten, E Fonseca-Pedrero, S Eliez… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Introduction The capacity to understand one's own actions and those of others in terms of
cognitive and affective mental states (ie, reflective functioning or mentalizing) is thought to …

A multilevel perspective on the development of borderline personality disorder

P Fonagy, P Luyten - Developmental psychopathology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter provides an update of the mentalizing approach to borderline personality
disorder (BPD). We present a multilevel approach to BPD from a developmental …

Mentalization and dissociation in the context of trauma: Implications for child psychopathology

K Ensink, M Bégin, L Normandin… - Journal of trauma & …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Dissociation is a common reaction subsequent to childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and has
been identified as a risk factor for child psychopathology. There is also evidence that …

Adolescence in lockdown: The protective role of mentalizing and epistemic trust

F Locati, A Milesi, F Conte, C Campbell… - Journal of clinical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Mentalizing is the ability to interpret one's own and others' behavior as driven by
intentional mental states. Epistemic trust (openness to interpersonally transmitted …

Mentalizing and trauma

P Luyten, P Fonagy - Handbook of mentalizing in mental health …, 2019 - books.google.com
In this chapter we present an update of the mentalizing approach to the conceptualization
and treatment of trauma, building on our previous work in this area (Allen 2005, 2013; Allen …

Mentalizing mediates the association between emotional abuse in childhood and potential for aggression in non-clinical adults

NH Schwarzer, T Nolte, P Fonagy, S Gingelmaier - Child abuse & neglect, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Emotional abuse in childhood has been linked to a higher expression of
aggressive behavior in adulthood. The identification of protective factors that mitigate this …

Attachment and reflective functioning in children with somatic symptom disorders and disruptive behavior disorders

F Bizzi, K Ensink, JL Borelli, SC Mora… - European Child & …, 2019 - Springer
Our goal in conducting this study was to examine whether children with somatic symptom
disorders (SSD) and disruptive behavior disorders (DBD) have higher rates of insecure or …