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Center Hecht Trainings offers a variety of short and longer courses. We specialize in Mentalizing Based Therapy for children, youth and families. In consultation, we also provide customized courses for specific professional groups, teams and institutions. In addition, we offer individual or group supervision.
Our Course Offer
MBT-A is a treatment approach for working with adolescents with a wide range of interpersonal problems, emotional dysregulation, impulsivity and self-harm. MBT-A combines individual weekly sessions for adolescents with mentalizing-enhancing family therapy sessions (MBT-F) and/or MBT-A group therapy. The approach aims to increase adolescents' ability to continue to experience and represent their own and others' feelings and thoughts accurately and in emotionally challenging situations. MBT-A has been scientifically proven effective in reducing self-harm and depressive symptoms in adolescents (Rossouw & Fonagy 2012).
Start date: Sep 15, 25
Mentalizing Based Treatment with Children (MBT-C) is a model for working with children in the latency years (ages 4-12) and their parents. MBT-C is a psychoanalytic integrative approach that combines psychodynamic principles with findings from attachment and affect regulation theory, systemic family therapy and empirical research. MBT-C is transdiagnostic and suitable for addressing a range of problems, including emotional and behavioral problems, anxiety, trauma, depression and attachment problems.
Start date: Oct 13, 25
Mentalization based treatment for Families (MBT-F) is a systemic treatment aimed at (re)starting mentalizing within families and partner relationships. This improves the quality of mutual relationships. The basis lies in the explicit or implicit feeling of psychological connection with another person, which allows family members to feel seen, understood and loved. The harmful effects of conflict (divorce) on children has been exhaustively described. Treatment in clinical practice is often extremely difficult. Social workers sometimes get caught up in conflict themselves or see minimal effects of their interventions. A mentalizing-promoting therapy framework can provide tools for diagnosis, motivation and treatment in situations such as: - chronic conflicts between divorced parents over dealing with each other, living situation and dealing with the children - a long-term history of ongoing negative lawsuits and accusations by both parents about the quality of parenting or in cases of parental repudiation the desire to intervene early to protect the child/children and to reduce the impact of litigation on interpersonal relationships.
Start date: Nov 19, 26
Center Hecht Training: specialists in courses on MBT for child, youth and family.
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Courses Offered
Our offer consist of a cohesive package of courses and workshops on MBT and attachment treatment methodologies. They offer a combination of solid professional knowledge and profound self-knowledge and self-care as a therapist. This follows from our belief in the continuously supporting circle of theoretical and personal knowledge and skill. Attention to and balance in both of these pillars is essential if you really want to work from a mentalizing-promoting therapy framework.
Knowledge
The balance between understanding and experiencing is central in all our courses. Accents may vary. Some courses are more theoretical in nature, In other courses the emphasis is on the combination of increasing knowledge and skills as in the MBTF course for parents in conflict where the emphasis is more on knowledge transfer.
Skills
In other courses, you engage more experientially with yourself as a person and therapist. By combining these courses in your own way and possibly supplementing them with supervision, you map out an educational path that suits your formation as a therapist. For example, in the Embodied Mentalizing course, you will first do and experience the body-centered exercises yourself, and then be able to apply them in your own practice.
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