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|Poll|May 5, 2016

Mini Quiz: Mentalization-Based Treatment Goals

Key Takeaways

What are the benefits of traditional psychoanalytic concepts and new discoveries of mentalization-based treatment?

The primary goal of MBT treatment is to help the patient:

A. Develop insight into the way their childhood influences their current relationship dynamics
B. Repeat their schematized ways of reacting to relationships for limited re-parenting
C. Understand their object relations and tendency towards aggression
D. Gain capacity to reflect on what happens between themselves and others in relationships
E. Change self-sabotaging behaviors

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