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Mentalization-based Interventions in Child Psychiatry and Youth Protection Services II: A Model Founded on the Child’s Prementalizing Mode of Psychic Functioning

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The systematic and rigorous observations of children in child psychiatry and Youth Protection Services in Quebec revealed that most of these children presented multiple, complex and often severe problems, and did not seem to benefit much from classic psychodynamic psychotherapy. Owing to a poorly developed mentalizing capacity, many of these children did not use symbolic play as a means of expressing their intrapsychic conflicts and relational difficulties and did not communicate much verbally with clinicians. It was noted also that these children’s inner world was dominated by prementalizing modes of thinking, namely, the teleological mode, the psychic equivalence mode, and the pretend mode. This article is the last in a series of three. The first concerns the clinical assessment of prementalizing modes of psychic functioning in children and their parents. The second lays out the general objectives, principles and interventions of a mentalization-based treatment for children. This third article presents specific intervention strategies adapted to children’s predominant mode of thinking. The objectives and techniques regarding each mode are discussed. Three clinical examples serve to illustrate the interventions. The authors suggest that these children must develop a certain degree of mentalizing capacity before they can benefit from classic psychodynamic psychotherapy.
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hal-02922878 , version 1 (26-08-2020)

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Vincent Domon-Archambault, Miguel Terradas, Didier Drieu, Natalie Mikic. Mentalization-based Interventions in Child Psychiatry and Youth Protection Services II: A Model Founded on the Child’s Prementalizing Mode of Psychic Functioning. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 2020, 19 (3), pp.1-14. ⟨10.1080/15289168.2020.1799476⟩. ⟨hal-02922878⟩
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