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The Role of Parental Reflective Functioning in Associations between Daily Autonomy-Relevant Parenting, Parenting Stress, and Early and Middle Adolescents’ Day-to-Day Difficulties

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Breaking the Intergenerational Cycle of Abuse: A Randomized Controlled Prevention Trial in Parents with Serious Mental Illness

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Addressing Emotion Regulation with Children: Play, Verbalization of Feelings, and Reappraisal

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Primary school mentalisation-based art therapy (Primary-smART): a Person-Based Approach optimisation study

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CHATogether Skit Development and Healing of Asian American Generation Z’s Unspoken Agonies: A Qualitative Study

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The role of parental mentalizing on the link between parental depression and child emotion regulation

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What’s on your mind? The effects of an attachment-based intervention on residential youth workers’ reflexive functioning

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Cultural Adaptation of the Lighthouse Parenting Programme: Mentalization-Based Treatment to Address Child Maltreatment

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A transdiagnostic mentalization-based parenting intervention versus care as usual for parents with mental disorders in adult mental health services in Denmark: protocol for a randomized clinical trial

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Parent Learning Groups in Alternative Provision: A Mixed-Methods Study of Psychoeducation, Mentalization, and Peer Support for Parents of Children with Neurodevelopmental and Conduct Difficulties

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Feasibility and acceptability of the MentiParent AI chatbot for training parental reflective functioning

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Caregiver Mentalizing and Child Emotional Regulation: A Novel Approach to Examining Bidirectional Impact

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Assessment of Mentalization-Based Interventions with School-Age Children

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Investigating the Effectiveness of Mentalization-Based Treatment on the Life Quality and Mental Status of Women with Hypothyroidism

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Mentalizing in Infancy and Early Childhood

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Competing with TikTok: How To Help Guide Youth Through the Social Media Mental Health Diagnosis Maze

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The Mediational Intervention for Sensitizing Caregivers: an evaluation of feasibility and acceptability among mothers with borderline personality disorder

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The Effectiveness of the Lighthouse Parenting Programme‐Online Version in Primary Care: A Feasibility Trial

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When Teachers Mentalize: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Teacher Responses to Disruptive Classroom Behaviour

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Brief education supported psychological treatment for adolescent borderline personality disorder: the BEST feasibility RCT

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Investigating the Effect of Mentalization-based Therapy (MBT) and Filial Therapy on Interactions of Student with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Parent and Teacher-child Interactions

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‘I feel like they understand me a bit more’: The experiences of young people with borderline personality disorder following their parents taking part in a mentalisation‐based intervention for parents and carers (MBT‐FACTS)

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The Process and Effects of Group Sandplay on the Intervention of the Children’s Problem Behaviour From the Perspective of MentalizationPreprint

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Social function in adolescent eating disorders: lived experience framework for clinical practice

Nicholls, D., Boules, D., Julius, N., Sheridan, E., & Burmester, V. (2025) · BJPsych Open · doi:10.1192/bjo.2025.10816

Understanding adolescent stress and coping through psychodynamic constructs: evidence from a comparative study

Akın, A., Goth, K., Seiffge‐Krenke, I., & Sarrar, L. (2025) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1668051

Sunshine of My Life

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Study Protocol: Single-Arm Pilot Feasibility of a Short-Term Family-Based Mentalization Approach for Early Adolescents with Depression

Morán, J., Duarte, J., Zapata, J., Alkabes-Esquenazi, L., González, S., Solervicens, P., Klagges, M., Díaz, F., Marcelo Arancibia, M., García, F., et al. (2025) · F1000Research · doi:10.12688/f1000research.169442.1

The development of a brief parenting intervention to improve children's understanding of emotions: A Delphi study

Lavender, S. R., Hobson, C., & Waters, C. S. (2026) · Psychology and Psychotherapy Theory Research and Practice · doi:10.1111/papt.70043

Retrospective Experiences of Mentalization‐Based Group Therapy for Borderline Personality Features in Adolescence

Christensen, A. B., Michelsen, E., Nielsen, J., Jørgensen, M. S., Bo, S., Beck, E., & Simonsen, E. H. (2026) · Counselling and Psychotherapy Research · doi:10.1002/capr.70098

Mentalization-Based Therapy for Children and Families: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Recent Literature

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Mentalization-based intervention for parents with elevated parenting stress: protocol of a RCT of the lighthouse parenting programme in China

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Advancing therapeutic approaches for agitation: A neurorelational perspective

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Seeing the World Through the Lens of Adolescents: A Mixed-Methods Study on Film Stylo Project

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Parental Psychiatric Symptoms and Child Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties: Exploring the Mediating Role of Parental Reflective Functioning in Parents With Mental Disorders

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The Classroom Climate and the Role of Teachers’ Mentalized Affectivity: Mediation Through Job and Life Satisfaction

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Reflective functioning skills mediating the relationship between attachment security and therapeutic alliance in mentalization‐based treatment for children

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How Maternal Mentalizing Deficits Relate to Adolescent Mentalizing Deficits: The Role of Negative Parenting in a Cross-Sectional Study

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Cultivating Compassion: Experiences of Children and Families with ADHD in Mentalization Informed Psychodynamic Therapy

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Mentalization-Based Therapy for Children and Families: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Recent Literature

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Introduction to the Special Issue of Mentalization-Based Treatment with Children, Adolescents, and Families.

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Mentalization-Based Interventions for Children Aged 6-12 and Their Carers: A Narrative Systematic Review

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The efficacy of group delivered mentalization-based parenting interventions: A systematic review of the literature

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Mentalization‐based treatment and its evidence‐base status: A systematic literature review

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