Examining the factor structure, reliability, and validity of the main outcome measure used in mentalization-based therapy skills training.

Background And Aims: Multiple national guidelines stress the importance for clinicians to possess good therapeutic skills for working with patients with significant relational difficulties (who may receive a diagnosis of personality disorder). Training clinicians in mentalization-based treatment skills (MBT-S) is one approach to address this. The main outcome measure used in MBT-S studies is the (KAMQ).

Balint-style reflective practice groups in a year 4 undergraduate general practice attachment: experience of the first two years.

Background And Aims: Many undergraduate medical curricula include reflective practice sessions based on traditional Balint-groups. Those sessions can help students to acknowledge that experiencing 'negative' feelings in relation to patients is normal and may contain important information about the clinical encounter. They may also help to protect students from some of the emotional challenges of studying medicine.

A pilot before-and-after study of a brief teaching programme for psychiatry trainees in mentalizing skills.

Background And Aims: Negative attitudes in clinicians towards people with personality disorder are common and associated with poor care. National guidelines recommend developing interventions to improve attitudes. Mentalization-based treatment theory and techniques provide a plausible intervention.

Family and carer smoking control programmes for reducing children's exposure to environmental tobacco smoke.

Background: Children's exposure to other people's cigarette smoke (environmental tobacco smoke, or ETS) is associated with a range of adverse health outcomes for children. Parental smoking is a common source of children's exposure to ETS. Older children are also at risk of exposure to ETS in child care or educational settings.

Family and carer smoking control programmes for reducing children's exposure to environmental tobacco smoke.

Background: Children's exposure to other people's cigarette smoke (environmental tobacco smoke, or ETS) is associated with a range of adverse health outcomes for children. Parental smoking is a common source of children's exposure to ETS. Preventing exposure to cigarette smoke in infancy and childhood has significant potential to improve children's health worldwide.