ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book aims to provide a growing need in mental health care for children and young people for an integrated treatment–that is, one using several different modes of treatment simultaneously when the problems are complex. It describes a point in time in the development of therapeutic possibilities that can be achieved with mentalization-based child therapy. The book focuses on children who have difficulty to sense intuitively what they, and others, express in their actions. It focuses on a project in which the observations were carried out: the initial stages of six treatments were followed intensively, and the observing therapists wrote down interventions they had noted in each observed therapeutic session. The book discusses matters such as becoming acquainted, the therapeutic setting, and the various stages in the course of a treatment.
