Mindscape: Peter Fonagy, PhD, on Child & Adolescent Relationship Development

Menninger's Chief of Staff John M. Oldham, MD, MS, interviews attachment expert Peter Fonagy, PhD, University College London, and discusses how Menninger helps teens and families relearn essential skills, including mentalizing, to help improve a child's ability to develop and sustain relationships.

[@rogerdavidson6236]

I like Fonagy and admire his work - I do feel he's really just describing Person-Centered Therapy as espoused by Carl Rogers in the 1940s, where clients are helped to explore, organise and integrate their inner worlds, thoughts, feelings, etc. by way of a relationship with a therapist who reflects back to them their feelings, thoughts, inner meanings, etc,, helping them make inner contact with themselves.

[@FrancisNortonLondon]

Interesting at the end, Fonagy suggests that outcome studies show Menninger's approach of combining behavioural and cognitive treatments in a mentalizing framework is more effective than treatments in a number of other centres which use more restrictive approaches.

[@napsguns]

I would have liked some more insight on the background and causes of rampant mental health issues in children and adolescents nowadays vs a few decades ago. 5:58 is followed by a non-answer really.