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Adaptive mentalization-based integrative treatment is a novel adaptation of the theory of mentalization and practices of mentalization-based treatment to address the needs of chaotic, complex and multiply comorbid youth, via team-based multimodal practices.
Previously called "Adolescent Mentalization Based Integrative Treatment", AMBIT changed its name to "Adaptive..." in recognition of the fact that it is now being used by a wide range of teams across the UK and internationally, that extend beyond the adolescent age range Adaptation is also at the heart of AMBIT, which encourages local teams to adapt, build upon, and share these adaptations to its core components; AMBIT aspires to be an Open-source model of therapy innovation. This name change was recognised in the recent book published by Oxford University Press
These practices, shaped by an eightfold principled therapeutic stance and using mentalization as the integrating framework, balance the development of a strong therapeutic attachment to a key worker with strong peer-to-peer relationships between workers that are designed counteract the potential for destabilizing effects from such intense work.
Mentalization is applied and fostered explicitly in four directions in AMBIT: