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This paper reports follow-up findings for an Mentalization based treatment (MBT) parenting intervention delivered to a community mental health sample. Parents completed the 12-week version of the Lighthouse Parenting Program (LPP) and were evaluated on parenting practices, parent-child relationships, parental mental health indicators, and child problem behaviour levels. We evaluated the extent to which improvements in mentalizing at follow-up mediated changes in parenting, parental adjustment, mental health, and child outcomes. Results included a reduction in parental coercive behaviours and child problems, improved parent-child relationship, and better parental psychological adjustment and mental health. Improvement in self-focused mentalizing were observed. Self-focused mentalizing mediated the changes in most outcomes from baseline to 3-month follow-up. These results provide strong preliminary evidence that the LPP improves parent and child outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article announces an international essay competition organized by the journal with a prize of 600 euro from its publisher SAGE. It informs that students belongs to analytic psychotherapy training group can submit articles integrated with theoretical material with clinical issue. It informs that members of international senior group analyst's panel will judge the papers which include Professor Elizabeth Rohr from Germany, Jane Campbell from Great Britain and Ivan Urlich from Split.