AMBIT has been developed to help people with multiple needs including mental health. This book shows how it has been applied in social settings to provide help through practical use and case study. It describes recent developments in the AMBIT model and provides new thinking about how "helping" services can provide meaningful help and change.

1: Why Has AMBIT Come About? 2: An Introduction to AMBIT 3: Epistemic Trust and Mistrust in Helping Systems 4: Working Out What is Going On: Using the AIM Cards with Clients 5: Getting Started With AMBIT: The ECID Project in Barcelona 6: Connecting Psychotherapy to the Streets: The Malmö Approach 7: AMBIT for Adults With Severe Personality Disorders: Experience from Utrecht, the Netherlands 8: Enhancing Multiprofessional Cooperation In a Child and Youth Social Service Institution: Vorarlberger Kinderdorf, Austria 9: Creating and Supporting a Team Around the Worker 10: Working with Networks: Implementing AMBIT in Disrupted Healthcare Systems 11: Applying AMBIT to Teacher Training: Innovations in Germany 12: Applying AMBIT Principles to the Training Process 13: Adopting a Mentalizing Approach to Evaluating Outcomes 14: What Are The Future Directions For AMBIT?

Peter Fuggle PhD is a clinical psychologist who has worked in child mental health services for over thirty years. He was Clinical Director of a community based mental health service in London for 20 years and became concerned about young people with mental health needs who did not wish to attend mainstream services. His collaboration with Dickon Bevington at the Anna Freud Centre was a turning point of his career and resulted in the start of the AMBIT programme. He is now delighted to be part of a growing AMBIT team in London who together continue to evolve the approach. Laura Talbot is a Clinical Psychologist who has specialised in working with adolescents and young adults in community outreach services since 2010. Laura has held clinical lead roles in multi-agency projects with MAC-UK and Brent Inclusion Services. Laura has been a trainer with the AMBIT Programme since 2015 and is now the AMBIT Joint Programme Lead. Chloe Campbell is Deputy Director of the Psychoanalysis Unit at University College London. She was educated at Cambridge, LSE and SOAS. She is interested in pursuing the interdisciplinary implications of recent theoretical developments in the area of epistemic trust, culture and psychopathology. Peter Fonagy is Head of the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences at University College London and is Chief Executive of the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Academy of Social Sciences and the American Association for Psychological Science, and was elected to Honorary Fellowship by the American College of Psychiatrists. He has received Lifetime Achievement Awards from several national and international professional associations including the British Psychological Society, the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorder, the British and Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorder, the World Association for Infant Mental Health and was in 2015 the first UK recipient of the Wiley Prize of the British Academy for Outstanding Achievements in Psychology by an international scholar. Dickon Bevington is Medical Director at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families. He is also a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS FT where he leads CASUS, an outreach service for complex substance-using youth, and he is also a Fellow of the Cambridge and Peterborough CLARHC.

Outlines an effective mentalization based team approach to working with people with severe and multiple needs who are often receiving services from multiple agencies Approaches those with limited trust in the capacity of services to help them Highly relevant to integrated care systems which are a central part of health and social care government policy in many countries in the world Provides an effective approach to partnership working for front line practitioners from many agencies Addresses key issues of practitioner stress and burn out by emphasising the importance of a team approach to therapeutic work