A Mentalization-Based Approach to Working With Adolescents in Groups

The term mentalization refers to the process by which humans make sense of the behavior of self and others, implicitly and explicitly, in terms of subjective states and mental processes (Fonagy, Gergely, Jurist, & Target, 2002). In less technical language, we might refer to this ability as mind-mindedness , or the capacity to see ourselves from the outside and others from the inside.