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CAT Practitioner Training - Brighton
1st October 2011 to 30th June 2013

Applications are invited now for this two year Practitioner training accredited by ACAT and Sheffield Hallam University.

CAT Practitioner Training
Cognitive Analytic Therapy is a time limited psychotherapy (normally 16 to 24 sessions) which integrates theories derived from cognitive psychology, psychoanalytic psychotherapy (mainly object relations) and ideas derived from Vygotsky and Bakhtin. CAT involves developing an active collaborative therapeutic relationship with the patient and is particularly applicable to work in NHS settings with people with complex needs.
CAT Practitioner Training is relevant to the needs of a diverse range of people working within the NHS and caring professions who wish to establish CAT as one of their core skills.
CAT Practitioner Training aims to develop trainees’ ability to work clinically with patients drawing on the theory and practice of CAT.

Qualification
Following successful completion of the course trainees will be accredited to practise CAT within their core professions and will be entitled to become full members of the Association for Cognitive Analytic Therapy, in addition to receiving a Post Graduate Diploma from Sheffield Hallam University. Those completing the PGDip will be eligible to apply for an additional research module and dissertation in CAT with SHU, leading to an MSc.
The course is also relevant to individuals who wish to acquire the Practitioner Training as a prelude to applying for further training as a CAT Psychotherapist and registration with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). This involves further selection procedures and two additional years of training on completion of the Practitioner Training.

Course Structure
Each year is divided into three modules: September/October to December, January to March, and April to July. The intake for this course is biennial. This course is a sister course to the CAT Practitioner training at St Thomas’s Hospital in London, and intakes will be timed so that together we provide an annual intake for the South East of England.

The Course Director is Dr Jane Blunden.

For further information please download the information leaflet further down this page.
 

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