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Tools to Strengthen Team Communication and Client Care: Mentalization in Practice

Session 4: Disintegration, Reintegration, and Team Cohesion

Shelly Simpson, LCSW
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Date & Time

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • Summarize the impact of disintegration on client care and team functioning.

  • Identify at least 2 common signs of disintegration within teams.

  • Explain how to use a reintegration skill that utilizes mentalization to address disintegration and strengthen team cohesion and client care.

Educational Goal

The educational goal of this workshop is to increase understanding of how disintegration affects client care and team functioning and how mentalization can support reintegration.

Description

In the final session of our workshop, we will integrate key concepts from previous sessions to examine how disintegration affects client care and team functioning, often leading to conflict and unmet needs. Disintegration commonly occurs when teams struggle to reach a shared understanding of the problem and how to address it. We will explore what integrated teams look like in practice and how mentalization can support the process of reintegration. Participants will also learn and apply a skill designed to address disintegration in client care, with the goal of fostering greater mentalization across the team.

Target Audience

  • Addiction Professional
  • Counselor
  • Psychologist
  • Social Worker

Presenters

Shelly Simpson, LCSW
Shelly serves as the Director of AMBIT (Adaptive Mentalization Based Integrative Treatment) at Ellenhorn and was previously the Clinical Director of Ellenhorn Los Angeles. She oversees, supervises, and actively participates in AMBIT teams. Shelly has also contributed to the field, having authored a chapter on Ellenhorn's implementation of AMBIT in a Dutch publication titled "AMBIT in Practice," and takes part in the global AMBIT community. Before joining the Ellenhorn team, Shelly relocated from Houston, Texas, where she served as the Program Manager for the Pathfinder Community Integration Program at The Menninger Clinic. It was during her tenure at Menninger that Shelly developed a deep passion for learning, practicing and educating others about mentalization. Her clinical interests are particularly focused on addressing disruptions in attachment, mistrust, trauma, and interpersonal relationship struggles.

Financially Sponsored By

  • Ellenhorn
  • Accord