Adaptive Mentalization-Based Integrative Treatment: A Guide for Teams to Develop Systems of Care
Dickon Bevington
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Description for Adaptive Mentalization-Based Integrative Treatment: A Guide for Teams to Develop Systems of Care
Paperback. This book describes Adaptive Mentalization-Based Integrative Treatment (AMBIT). This is an approach to working with people - particularly young people and young adults - whose problems are not limited to one domain. AMBIT has been designed for community teams from Mental Health, Social Care, and Youth work. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: JKS; JMH; MMJ; MMJT. Dimension: 234 x 153. .
Socially excluded youth with mental health problems and co-occurring difficulties (e.g. conduct disorder, family breakdown, homelessness, substance use, exploitation, educational failure) attract the involvement of multiple agencies. Poorly coordinated interventions often multiply in the face of such problems, so that a young person or family is approached by multiple workers from different agencies working towards different goals and using different treatment models; these are often overwhelming and may actually be experienced as aversive by the young person or their family. Failure to provide effective help is costly throughout life This is the first book to describe ... Read more
Socially excluded youth with mental health problems and co-occurring difficulties (e.g. conduct disorder, family breakdown, homelessness, substance use, exploitation, educational failure) attract the involvement of multiple agencies. Poorly coordinated interventions often multiply in the face of such problems, so that a young person or family is approached by multiple workers from different agencies working towards different goals and using different treatment models; these are often overwhelming and may actually be experienced as aversive by the young person or their family. Failure to provide effective help is costly throughout life This is the first book to describe ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198718673
SKU
V9780198718673
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About Dickon Bevington
Dickon Bevington is a Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the NHS in Cambridgeshire, and is Medical Director at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families. He specialises in the outreach treatment of complex, risky and hard to reach young people with substance use disorders and has previously worked in Adolescent inpatient hospitals. He has led ... Read more
Reviews for Adaptive Mentalization-Based Integrative Treatment: A Guide for Teams to Develop Systems of Care
Since its release... I have found myself recommending this book to colleagues left and right as situations inevitably arise in which I think to myself an AMBIT approach would be so helpful here!
Carlene MacMillan, MD, llenhorn NYC PACT Team, New York, NY and Brooklyn Minds, Brooklyn, NY., Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent ... Read more
Carlene MacMillan, MD, llenhorn NYC PACT Team, New York, NY and Brooklyn Minds, Brooklyn, NY., Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent ... Read more