“Mentalising is the capacity to interpret one’s own and other people’s behaviour in relation to underlying mental states.”
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#ChildMentalHealth
👉 Read the full article
#ChildMentalHealth
Mentalising and Emotion Regulation in Children and Families
Midgley et al. describe the ERiC trial, the first large randomised clinical trial designed to evaluate a brief form of Mentalization-Based Treatment for children aged 6–12 with co-occurring internalising and externalising difficulties.
www.acamh.org
November 1, 2026 at 3:15 PM
“Mentalising is the capacity to interpret one’s own and other people’s behaviour in relation to underlying mental states.”
👉 Read the full article
#ChildMentalHealth
👉 Read the full article
#ChildMentalHealth
🧠 Understanding what’s happening beneath behaviour can help us work differently with children and families.
In this ACAMH Learn video, Dr. Emma Morris explores mentalising, its development, and the impact of #trauma and stress on #mentalising. https://bit.ly/3VHKUEL
In this ACAMH Learn video, Dr. Emma Morris explores mentalising, its development, and the impact of #trauma and stress on #mentalising. https://bit.ly/3VHKUEL
October 27, 2026 at 10:43 PM
🧠 Understanding what’s happening beneath behaviour can help us work differently with children and families.
In this ACAMH Learn video, Dr. Emma Morris explores mentalising, its development, and the impact of #trauma and stress on #mentalising. https://bit.ly/3VHKUEL
In this ACAMH Learn video, Dr. Emma Morris explores mentalising, its development, and the impact of #trauma and stress on #mentalising. https://bit.ly/3VHKUEL
“A child who smiles and causes no trouble at school is easy to overlook.”
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#ChildMentalHealth
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#ChildMentalHealth
Compliance as a trauma response in children
In the session on mentalising with complex trauma in children and families, Dr Emma Morris described how, in some children who have experienced early relational trauma, compliance may be mistaken for a sign that all is well.
www.acamh.org
October 29, 2026 at 3:15 PM
“A child who smiles and causes no trouble at school is easy to overlook.”
👉 Read the full article
#ChildMentalHealth
👉 Read the full article
#ChildMentalHealth
Listening to Jeremy Holmes talking about defensive spirituality vs mentalising spirituality and it’s so good.
This is how I’ve seen religion and spirituality for a long time. It’s the *relationship* with it that we need to pay attention to.
This is how I’ve seen religion and spirituality for a long time. It’s the *relationship* with it that we need to pay attention to.
October 24, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Listening to Jeremy Holmes talking about defensive spirituality vs mentalising spirituality and it’s so good.
This is how I’ve seen religion and spirituality for a long time. It’s the *relationship* with it that we need to pay attention to.
This is how I’ve seen religion and spirituality for a long time. It’s the *relationship* with it that we need to pay attention to.
🧠 What is #mentalising, & why does it matter when working with children & families?
In this ACAMH Learn video, Dr. Emma Morris explores how mentalising develops, factors that can disrupt this capacity, and the impact of #trauma and stress on mentalising. https://bit.ly/3VHKUEL
In this ACAMH Learn video, Dr. Emma Morris explores how mentalising develops, factors that can disrupt this capacity, and the impact of #trauma and stress on mentalising. https://bit.ly/3VHKUEL
October 21, 2026 at 10:33 AM
🧠 What is #mentalising, & why does it matter when working with children & families?
In this ACAMH Learn video, Dr. Emma Morris explores how mentalising develops, factors that can disrupt this capacity, and the impact of #trauma and stress on mentalising. https://bit.ly/3VHKUEL
In this ACAMH Learn video, Dr. Emma Morris explores how mentalising develops, factors that can disrupt this capacity, and the impact of #trauma and stress on mentalising. https://bit.ly/3VHKUEL
Simulation Theory argues that failures to understand other minds need not imply a damaged mentalising module. Differences in affect, salience and availability may distort simulation instead. The mechanism matters.
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#SimulationTheory #PhilosophyOfMind
Learn more
#SimulationTheory #PhilosophyOfMind
October 22, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Simulation Theory argues that failures to understand other minds need not imply a damaged mentalising module. Differences in affect, salience and availability may distort simulation instead. The mechanism matters.
Learn more
#SimulationTheory #PhilosophyOfMind
Learn more
#SimulationTheory #PhilosophyOfMind
How can trauma and stress affect a child’s capacity to mentalise?
Dr. Emma Morris introduces key concepts in mentalising work and explores why a mentalising lens can be particularly helpful when supporting #trauma-exposed children and complex families. https://bit.ly/3VHKUEL
Dr. Emma Morris introduces key concepts in mentalising work and explores why a mentalising lens can be particularly helpful when supporting #trauma-exposed children and complex families. https://bit.ly/3VHKUEL
October 18, 2026 at 8:36 AM
How can trauma and stress affect a child’s capacity to mentalise?
Dr. Emma Morris introduces key concepts in mentalising work and explores why a mentalising lens can be particularly helpful when supporting #trauma-exposed children and complex families. https://bit.ly/3VHKUEL
Dr. Emma Morris introduces key concepts in mentalising work and explores why a mentalising lens can be particularly helpful when supporting #trauma-exposed children and complex families. https://bit.ly/3VHKUEL
2/5
Using a novel mentalising paradigm, three established executive function (EF) tasks and structural equation modelling, we tested how EFs relate to mentalising:
🧠 Memory updating
🚫 Interference resolution
🔀 Set shifting
The results? Their contributions were subtle and highly specific.
Using a novel mentalising paradigm, three established executive function (EF) tasks and structural equation modelling, we tested how EFs relate to mentalising:
🧠 Memory updating
🚫 Interference resolution
🔀 Set shifting
The results? Their contributions were subtle and highly specific.
October 16, 2026 at 6:40 PM
2/5
Using a novel mentalising paradigm, three established executive function (EF) tasks and structural equation modelling, we tested how EFs relate to mentalising:
🧠 Memory updating
🚫 Interference resolution
🔀 Set shifting
The results? Their contributions were subtle and highly specific.
Using a novel mentalising paradigm, three established executive function (EF) tasks and structural equation modelling, we tested how EFs relate to mentalising:
🧠 Memory updating
🚫 Interference resolution
🔀 Set shifting
The results? Their contributions were subtle and highly specific.
3/5
🧠 Better memory updating was associated with slower perspective-taking judgements.
🚫 Faster interference resolution was associated with slower false-belief judgements.
🔀 Set shifting showed no effects.
Executive functions may support mentalising in more selective ways than often assumed.
🧠 Better memory updating was associated with slower perspective-taking judgements.
🚫 Faster interference resolution was associated with slower false-belief judgements.
🔀 Set shifting showed no effects.
Executive functions may support mentalising in more selective ways than often assumed.
October 16, 2026 at 6:40 PM
3/5
🧠 Better memory updating was associated with slower perspective-taking judgements.
🚫 Faster interference resolution was associated with slower false-belief judgements.
🔀 Set shifting showed no effects.
Executive functions may support mentalising in more selective ways than often assumed.
🧠 Better memory updating was associated with slower perspective-taking judgements.
🚫 Faster interference resolution was associated with slower false-belief judgements.
🔀 Set shifting showed no effects.
Executive functions may support mentalising in more selective ways than often assumed.
📢 New publication! 📢
Excited to share our new paper "Preserved higher-order mentalising during strategic interactions after medial prefrontal cortex damage" in collaboration with @thepsychologist.bsky.social's lab - out now in Nature Communications!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Excited to share our new paper "Preserved higher-order mentalising during strategic interactions after medial prefrontal cortex damage" in collaboration with @thepsychologist.bsky.social's lab - out now in Nature Communications!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 12, 2026 at 5:17 PM
📢 New publication! 📢
Excited to share our new paper "Preserved higher-order mentalising during strategic interactions after medial prefrontal cortex damage" in collaboration with @thepsychologist.bsky.social's lab - out now in Nature Communications!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Excited to share our new paper "Preserved higher-order mentalising during strategic interactions after medial prefrontal cortex damage" in collaboration with @thepsychologist.bsky.social's lab - out now in Nature Communications!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
ICYMI: Preserved higher-order mentalising during strategic interactions after medial prefrontal cortex damage @natcomms.nature.com
Preserved higher-order mentalising during strategic interactions after medial prefrontal cortex damage
Nature Communications, Published online: 10 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-77235-3Mentalising is essential for social interaction and is thought to rely on the medial prefrontal cortex. Here, the authors show that damage to the medial prefrontal cortex leaves mentalising intact but alters how quickly people make social decisions.
dlvr.it
October 12, 2026 at 10:08 AM
ICYMI: Preserved higher-order mentalising during strategic interactions after medial prefrontal cortex damage @natcomms.nature.com
Everyone mentalises to some degree – so what makes it a therapeutic tool?
On 14 Oct, ACAMH will host an event on mentalising with complex clinical presentations in children and families.
We caught up with Dr. Emma Morris about the topic itself and her hopes for the event. https://bit.ly/4aQYtXk
On 14 Oct, ACAMH will host an event on mentalising with complex clinical presentations in children and families.
We caught up with Dr. Emma Morris about the topic itself and her hopes for the event. https://bit.ly/4aQYtXk
Meet the expert on mentalising - Dr. Emma Morris
Discover how mentalising therapy supports children and families facing complex trauma. Join Emma Morris at the ACAMH workshop on 14 October 2026.
bit.ly
October 12, 2026 at 9:12 AM
Everyone mentalises to some degree – so what makes it a therapeutic tool?
On 14 Oct, ACAMH will host an event on mentalising with complex clinical presentations in children and families.
We caught up with Dr. Emma Morris about the topic itself and her hopes for the event. https://bit.ly/4aQYtXk
On 14 Oct, ACAMH will host an event on mentalising with complex clinical presentations in children and families.
We caught up with Dr. Emma Morris about the topic itself and her hopes for the event. https://bit.ly/4aQYtXk
Children referred to mental health services often experience overlapping emotional and behavioural difficulties—anxiety alongside anger, sadness alongside conflict—yet treatment can focus on a single diagnosis. The ERiC trial set out to address that gap. https://bit.ly/45JlQ27
Mentalising and Emotion Regulation in Children and Families
Midgley et al. describe the ERiC trial, the first large randomised clinical trial designed to evaluate a brief form of Mentalization-Based Treatment for children aged 6–12 with co-occurring internalis...
bit.ly
October 13, 2026 at 6:59 AM
Children referred to mental health services often experience overlapping emotional and behavioural difficulties—anxiety alongside anger, sadness alongside conflict—yet treatment can focus on a single diagnosis. The ERiC trial set out to address that gap. https://bit.ly/45JlQ27
Preserved higher-order mentalising during strategic interactions after medial prefrontal cortex damage @natcomms.nature.com
Preserved higher-order mentalising during strategic interactions after medial prefrontal cortex damage
Nature Communications, Published online: 10 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-77235-3Mentalising is essential for social interaction and is thought to rely on the medial prefrontal cortex. Here, the authors show that damage to the medial prefrontal cortex leaves mentalising intact but alters how quickly people make social decisions.
dlvr.it
October 11, 2026 at 3:07 AM
Preserved higher-order mentalising during strategic interactions after medial prefrontal cortex damage @natcomms.nature.com
How can a #mentalising lens support work with trauma-exposed children and complex families? 🧠
Dr. Emma Morris explores mentalising, how it develops, and how #trauma and stress can affect this capacity in this #ACAMHLearn video. https://bit.ly/3VHKUEL
Dr. Emma Morris explores mentalising, how it develops, and how #trauma and stress can affect this capacity in this #ACAMHLearn video. https://bit.ly/3VHKUEL
October 8, 2026 at 8:46 AM
How can a #mentalising lens support work with trauma-exposed children and complex families? 🧠
Dr. Emma Morris explores mentalising, how it develops, and how #trauma and stress can affect this capacity in this #ACAMHLearn video. https://bit.ly/3VHKUEL
Dr. Emma Morris explores mentalising, how it develops, and how #trauma and stress can affect this capacity in this #ACAMHLearn video. https://bit.ly/3VHKUEL
How can mentalising support regulation?
Mentalising is the capacity to interpret one’s own and other people’s behaviour in relation to underlying mental states. The ERiC model proposes strengthening mentalising should support emotion regulation. https://bit.ly/45JlQ27
Mentalising is the capacity to interpret one’s own and other people’s behaviour in relation to underlying mental states. The ERiC model proposes strengthening mentalising should support emotion regulation. https://bit.ly/45JlQ27
Mentalising and Emotion Regulation in Children and Families
Midgley et al. describe the ERiC trial, the first large randomised clinical trial designed to evaluate a brief form of Mentalization-Based Treatment for children aged 6–12 with co-occurring internalis...
bit.ly
October 7, 2026 at 7:26 AM
How can mentalising support regulation?
Mentalising is the capacity to interpret one’s own and other people’s behaviour in relation to underlying mental states. The ERiC model proposes strengthening mentalising should support emotion regulation. https://bit.ly/45JlQ27
Mentalising is the capacity to interpret one’s own and other people’s behaviour in relation to underlying mental states. The ERiC model proposes strengthening mentalising should support emotion regulation. https://bit.ly/45JlQ27
Discover how #mentalising #therapy supports children and families facing complex trauma. Join Dr. Emma Morris at the ACAMH workshop on 14 October 2026. https://bit.ly/4aQYtXk
Meet the expert on mentalising - Dr. Emma Morris
Discover how mentalising therapy supports children and families facing complex trauma. Join Emma Morris at the ACAMH workshop on 14 October 2026.
bit.ly
October 6, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Discover how #mentalising #therapy supports children and families facing complex trauma. Join Dr. Emma Morris at the ACAMH workshop on 14 October 2026. https://bit.ly/4aQYtXk
Children referred to #mentalhealth services often face overlapping emotional and behavioural difficulties—anxiety with anger, sadness with conflict. Yet treatments typically target one diagnosis. The ERiC trial aimed to address this gap. https://bit.ly/45JlQ27
Mentalising and Emotion Regulation in Children and Families
Midgley et al. describe the ERiC trial, the first large randomised clinical trial designed to evaluate a brief form of Mentalization-Based Treatment for children aged 6–12 with co-occurring internalis...
bit.ly
October 3, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Children referred to #mentalhealth services often face overlapping emotional and behavioural difficulties—anxiety with anger, sadness with conflict. Yet treatments typically target one diagnosis. The ERiC trial aimed to address this gap. https://bit.ly/45JlQ27
🧠 Understanding what’s happening beneath behaviour can help us work differently with children and families.
In this ACAMH Learn video, Dr. Emma Morris explores mentalising, its development, and the impact of #trauma and stress on #mentalising. https://bit.ly/3VHKUEL
In this ACAMH Learn video, Dr. Emma Morris explores mentalising, its development, and the impact of #trauma and stress on #mentalising. https://bit.ly/3VHKUEL
October 2, 2026 at 6:40 AM
🧠 Understanding what’s happening beneath behaviour can help us work differently with children and families.
In this ACAMH Learn video, Dr. Emma Morris explores mentalising, its development, and the impact of #trauma and stress on #mentalising. https://bit.ly/3VHKUEL
In this ACAMH Learn video, Dr. Emma Morris explores mentalising, its development, and the impact of #trauma and stress on #mentalising. https://bit.ly/3VHKUEL
On 14 October 2026, ACAMH will host 'Mentalising with complex clinical presentations in children and families: a systemic and trauma-informed approach'.
We caught up with the presenter – Dr. Emma Morris – about the topic itself, her career, and her hopes for the event. https://bit.ly/4aQYtXk
We caught up with the presenter – Dr. Emma Morris – about the topic itself, her career, and her hopes for the event. https://bit.ly/4aQYtXk
Meet the expert on mentalising - Dr. Emma Morris
Discover how mentalising therapy supports children and families facing complex trauma. Join Emma Morris at the ACAMH workshop on 14 October 2026.
bit.ly
October 1, 2026 at 9:35 AM
On 14 October 2026, ACAMH will host 'Mentalising with complex clinical presentations in children and families: a systemic and trauma-informed approach'.
We caught up with the presenter – Dr. Emma Morris – about the topic itself, her career, and her hopes for the event. https://bit.ly/4aQYtXk
We caught up with the presenter – Dr. Emma Morris – about the topic itself, her career, and her hopes for the event. https://bit.ly/4aQYtXk
What are the limits of single-disorder thinking? Mentalisation-based treatment helps children & parents connect behaviour with thoughts, feelings & intentions, supporting emotion regulation within the child & across the parent–child relationship. https://bit.ly/45JlQ27
Mentalising and Emotion Regulation in Children and Families
Midgley et al. describe the ERiC trial, the first large randomised clinical trial designed to evaluate a brief form of Mentalization-Based Treatment for children aged 6–12 with co-occurring internalis...
bit.ly
September 27, 2026 at 4:47 AM
What are the limits of single-disorder thinking? Mentalisation-based treatment helps children & parents connect behaviour with thoughts, feelings & intentions, supporting emotion regulation within the child & across the parent–child relationship. https://bit.ly/45JlQ27
🧠 What is #mentalising, & why does it matter when working with children & families?
In this ACAMH Learn video, Dr. Emma Morris explores how mentalising develops, factors that can disrupt this capacity, and the impact of #trauma and stress on mentalising. https://bit.ly/3VHKUEL
In this ACAMH Learn video, Dr. Emma Morris explores how mentalising develops, factors that can disrupt this capacity, and the impact of #trauma and stress on mentalising. https://bit.ly/3VHKUEL
September 26, 2026 at 2:33 AM
🧠 What is #mentalising, & why does it matter when working with children & families?
In this ACAMH Learn video, Dr. Emma Morris explores how mentalising develops, factors that can disrupt this capacity, and the impact of #trauma and stress on mentalising. https://bit.ly/3VHKUEL
In this ACAMH Learn video, Dr. Emma Morris explores how mentalising develops, factors that can disrupt this capacity, and the impact of #trauma and stress on mentalising. https://bit.ly/3VHKUEL
Is Mentalization Based Therapy designed to be part of broader therapeutic practice, or is it, in itself, enough?
This Oct, ACAMH will host an event on mentalising with complex clinical presentations in children & families. We caught up with Dr. Emma Morris about the topic. https://bit.ly/4aQYtXk
This Oct, ACAMH will host an event on mentalising with complex clinical presentations in children & families. We caught up with Dr. Emma Morris about the topic. https://bit.ly/4aQYtXk
Meet the expert on mentalising - Dr. Emma Morris
Discover how mentalising therapy supports children and families facing complex trauma. Join Emma Morris at the ACAMH workshop on 14 October 2026.
bit.ly
September 24, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Is Mentalization Based Therapy designed to be part of broader therapeutic practice, or is it, in itself, enough?
This Oct, ACAMH will host an event on mentalising with complex clinical presentations in children & families. We caught up with Dr. Emma Morris about the topic. https://bit.ly/4aQYtXk
This Oct, ACAMH will host an event on mentalising with complex clinical presentations in children & families. We caught up with Dr. Emma Morris about the topic. https://bit.ly/4aQYtXk
So please, if you're talking to the press, don't use mentalising terms for LLM "agent" behaviour.
It isn't like saying your printer doesn't want to print today, because there isn't a massive hype industry telling people printers are going to take over the world.
It isn't like saying your printer doesn't want to print today, because there isn't a massive hype industry telling people printers are going to take over the world.
September 24, 2026 at 1:24 PM
So please, if you're talking to the press, don't use mentalising terms for LLM "agent" behaviour.
It isn't like saying your printer doesn't want to print today, because there isn't a massive hype industry telling people printers are going to take over the world.
It isn't like saying your printer doesn't want to print today, because there isn't a massive hype industry telling people printers are going to take over the world.
Everyone mentalises to some degree – so what makes it a therapeutic tool?
On 14 Oct, ACAMH will host an event on mentalising with complex clinical presentations in children and families.
We caught up with Dr. Emma Morris about the topic itself and her hopes for the event. https://bit.ly/4aQYtXk
On 14 Oct, ACAMH will host an event on mentalising with complex clinical presentations in children and families.
We caught up with Dr. Emma Morris about the topic itself and her hopes for the event. https://bit.ly/4aQYtXk
Meet the expert on mentalising - Dr. Emma Morris
Discover how mentalising therapy supports children and families facing complex trauma. Join Emma Morris at the ACAMH workshop on 14 October 2026.
bit.ly
September 20, 2026 at 9:18 AM
Everyone mentalises to some degree – so what makes it a therapeutic tool?
On 14 Oct, ACAMH will host an event on mentalising with complex clinical presentations in children and families.
We caught up with Dr. Emma Morris about the topic itself and her hopes for the event. https://bit.ly/4aQYtXk
On 14 Oct, ACAMH will host an event on mentalising with complex clinical presentations in children and families.
We caught up with Dr. Emma Morris about the topic itself and her hopes for the event. https://bit.ly/4aQYtXk