Published in Training for Organisations on July 16th 2018
Mentalization-based therapy – Parenting under Pressure is a 10 session therapeutic model developed to help couples, parents who are together and separated parents who face a range of challenges and difficulties, particularly in relation to ongoing anger, hostility and difficulty in seeing their partner’s perspective.
These include parents locked in entrenched conflict about their children and couples/parents who are involved in domestic violence/couple conflict (also known as situational couple violence).
Our way of working is inspired by the original work of Professors Peter Fonagy and Anthony Bateman on mentalization, which they initially developed as a way of helping individuals.
About the intervention
Our 10 session mentalization-based approach helps couples/parents to:
Evidence base
Mentalization-based therapy was trialled with more than two and a half thousand parents during the Government’s Reducing Parental Conflict Programme between 2018 and 2022.
Evaluation of this programme found that:
Dates of our next training in Mentalization-based therapy (online) will appear here shortly.
Cost
The cost of this 5-day training (which includes a further two days follow-up training in the same calendar year) is £1,500 per person. Ongoing weekly supervision is required in order to be able to practice, and this is available at £100 per practitioner (over 42 weeks per year – i.e. £4,200).
The total cost of the training is therefore £5,700 per person.
Qualification
Certificate in Mentalization-based therapy – Parenting under Pressure
Eligibility criteria
Trainees will already hold a qualification in some form of counselling or therapy, have experience of working with couples in conflict or good experience of working with families in trouble.
To enquire about the training, please email Sarah Ingram, Head of Strategic Partnerships & Programmes, at
Footnotes
[1] (p.61 - https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1182516/reducing-parental-conflict-programme-2018_2022-evaluation-of-interventions.pdf ).
[2] (p64 - https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1182516/reducing-parental-conflict-programme-2018_2022-evaluation-of-interventions.pdf ).
[3] (p67 - https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1182516/reducing-parental-conflict-programme-2018_2022-evaluation-of-interventions.pdf ).
[4] (p48 https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1182516/reducing-parental-conflict-programme-2018_2022-evaluation-of-interventions.pdf ).
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10 New Street, London EC2M 4TP
Tel: 020 7380 1975
Registered Charity Number: 211058. Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology. Company number: 241618.