A Mentalization-based Intervention for Children of Parent(s) With Borderline Personality Disorder

MBT-C is a time-limited intervention designed to resolve the child's emotional or behavioral problems and to promote resilience, by promoting the child's and parent's mentalizing capacities. It is composed by 1) an assessment phase, composed of 3 to 4 sessions, with the family, the child and the parent(s), 2) an intervention phase, composed of a minimum block of 12 individual sessions with the child and parallel sessions for the parent(s), that can be repeated up to three times (i.e., maximum of 36 sessions), and 3) a booster session 3 to 12 months after the last session. In this clinical trial, MBT-C will be composed of: 3 assessment sessions; 12 individual sessions with the child, plus 6 parallel individual sessions with the parent with BPD; 1 booster family session, 3 months after the last session.