This book seeks to illustrate, with clinical examples, the various applications and modifications of the Mentalization-Based Treatment model in its formulation as for school-age children and their parents (MBT-C).

The contemporary theory and technique of Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) and its clinical applications have developed significantly in the last 25 years, since Fonagy et al. presented in 2002 their masterful integration of evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, evolutionary psychoanalysis and genetics. Its formulation as a treatment for school-age children and their parents (MBT-C) represents, in turn, an evolution of Anna Freud's ideas on the importance of applying evolutionary knowledge to clinical work.

This book seeks to illustrate, with clinical examples, the various applications and modifications of the MBT-C model and the ways in which therapists adapt to the needs of the child, to his internal and external world. With the contribution of professionals from different fields of mental health and from different geographical areas, but with a common evolutionary psychodynamic language, the reader is invited to know the versatility of a model that organizes the internal and external clinical functioning of the professional, while freeing his ability to play, create and co-build.