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Innovations in Practice: Adolescent Mentalization-Based Integrative Therapy (AMBIT) – a new integrated approach to working with the most hard to reach adolescents with severe complex mental health needs

  1. Dickon Bevington1,
  2. Peter Fuggle2,
  3. Peter Fonagy3,
  4. Mary Target3,
  5. Eia Asen4

Article first published online: 4 MAY 2012

DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-3588.2012.00666.x

Issue

Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Volume 18, Issue 1, pages 46–51, February 2013

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Bevington, D., Fuggle, P., Fonagy, P., Target, M. and Asen, E. (2013), Innovations in Practice: Adolescent Mentalization-Based Integrative Therapy (AMBIT) – a new integrated approach to working with the most hard to reach adolescents with severe complex mental health needs. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 18: 46–51. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-3588.2012.00666.x

Author Information

  1. 1

    Cambridge and Peterborough Foundation Trust and Anna Freud Centre, London, UK

  2. 2

    Anna Freud Centre and Islington PCT, London, UK

  3. 3

    University College London and Anna Freud Centre, London, UK

  4. 4

    Marlborough Family Service, London, UK

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 23 JAN 2013
  2. Article first published online: 4 MAY 2012
  3. Manuscript Accepted: 6 FEB 2012

Funded by

  • Comic Relief, the City Bridge Trust
  • James Wentworth Stanley Memorial Fund
  • Anna Freud Centre

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