ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021
Mentalization-Based Treatment in Groups for Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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- The Efficacy of Mentalization-Based Interventions Among Autistic Individuals and Their Families: A Systematic Review.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2026Review
- The Role of Social Adversity in the Association Between Autistic Traits and Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms.Personality and mental health · 2026Article
- Subgroups of emotion dysregulation in adults: a latent profile analysis in a clinically heterogeneous population.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2025Article
- Personality Disorders and Clinical Disorders: The Challenge of Comorbid Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Eating Disorders (EDs), Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), or Somatic Symptom Disorder (SSD).Current psychiatry reports · 2025Review
- The teacher-student relationship in inclusive contexts: the role of mentalization and closeness.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Autistic and schizotypal traits exhibit similarities in their impact on mentalization and adult attachment impairments: a cross-sectional study.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Proposition of a transdiagnostic processual approach of emotion dysregulation based on core triggers and interpersonal styles.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Implications of Social Anxiety Symptoms in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Is There a Predictive Role of Interpersonal Sensitivity and Substance Abuse?Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Differential Diagnosis of ICD-11 Personality Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorder in Adolescents.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Towards a comprehensive approach to mentalization-based treatment for children with autism: integrating attachment, neurosciences, and mentalizing.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Mentalization based treatment of youth on the psychotic spectrum: clinical profiles and outcomes for youth in the ECID.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Reduced impact of nonverbal cues during integration of verbal and nonverbal emotional information in adults with high-functioning autism.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Co-Occurring Autism Spectrum and Borderline Personality Disorder: An Emerging Clinical Challenge Seeking Informed Interventions.Harvard review of psychiatryArticle
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Abstract
In order to successfully interact with others in social encounters, we have to be attentive to their mental states. This means, we have to implicitly and explicitly interpret our own actions as well as the actions of others as meaningful on the basis of the ascription of intentional mental states. However, this ability, often referred to as mentalizing, seems to be impaired in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Individuals with ADS show specific deficits relating to the representation of mental states of others. Especially, the spontaneous, intuitive attribution of and reaction to others' mental states seem to be impaired. Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) is a form of psychotherapy in individual and group settings that focuses on the education and enhancement of mentalizing. Although the scope of MBT is broad and MBT has been already proven to be useful in a variety of mental disorders, no attempt has been made to apply MBT in patients with ASD. In our study, we adapted MBT for adults with ASD in a therapeutic group setting to examine the feasibility as well as the effectiveness of the treatment in this patient group. During 15-20 weeks of weekly group therapy, we surveyed the patients' acceptability of the intervention. Additionally, changes in mentalizing difficulties were measured before and after treatment. Results show a high acceptance of the treatment and an improvement in the patients' mentalizing abilities, presenting MBT as a promising treatment option for ASD.
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