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ACAT: Two Day Introduction to CAT - Online
25th March 2025 to 26th March 2025

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A two-day introduction to the skills and concepts in practice, led by Steve Potter and Annalee Curran

This highly-rated short course is offered by ACAT for people new to the CAT way of working.  The course will be held online using Zoom conferencing.  Webinars in plenary format and breakout rooms will work within the following times.  No online session will be longer than 1.5 hours with times allocated for coffee, tea and lunch.     

Tuesday 25th and Wednesday 26th March 2025
09:30 –16:45 each day

Course Fee:  £200 (payment online) / £215 (if invoicing requested).  If you require an invoice your booking form must be accompanied by the relevant purchase order please.

Aims and Background

This hands-on, two day course offers an introduction to the ideas, methods and skills of Cognitive Analytic Therapy.  It combines short theoretical inputs with role play and video demonstrations by the trainers of CAT practice and work in pairs and small groups to try out CAT skills.  The versatility of the approach will be explored and a range of clinical examples highlighted.  Participants will gain skills in mapping, tracking and negotiating problem patterns with clients and for supervision.   Participants will need some familiarity with the use of psychological ideas and methods in responding to mental health problems and emotional distress. 

Key ideas to be taught: 

•    The influence of early interactions in shaping personality: reciprocal roles, multiple positions   
•    Developing therapeutic attitudes through joint activity within a structured, focused, time limited therapy  
•    Relational understanding of trauma: its origins, maintenance in current life and enactment in the helping setting 
•    reciprocal roles and a dialogic understanding of problem patterns
•    enactments and therapeutic moments

Typical methods to be practiced:

•    shared therapeutic activity of make maps side by side with the client 
•    use of reformulatory diagrams and writing to hold and guide therapy
•    using the educational and therapeutic relationship between client and therapist as the key to mechanisms of change
•    working directly and indirectly with a client
•    active and therapeutic use of time and endings

An integrative and dialogic approach:

•    to psychological therapies and mental health work
•    differences and similarities with other cognitive relational models of therapy 

Suitable for:
Clinical psychologists, psychotherapists, nurses, psychiatrists, counsellors, social workers and others working with mental health   
 
Course Trainers:  
Annalee Curran and Steve Potter have been teaching and training CAT for many years in the UK and internationally

ACAT reserves the right to change programme content and presenters.

How to book

  • If you are booking and paying for yourself this can be done by personal credit or debit card online instantly via this webpage (scroll down to Book Now below)
  • If you require an invoice or are booking for someone else, please email a completed booking form (downloadable below) along with your purchase order to:  alison.marfell@acat.me.uk  Please note if you require an invoice a copy of the purchase order (not just a note of the number) must be supplied with your booking form in order to process your booking; thank you.
  • Please note online booking is for users booking themselves in and paying with a personal debit or credit card.  If you are paying for a third party, please use the booking form below and include a copy of the purchase order.  Thank you.


Terms and Conditions

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Enquiries:  

•    Email: alison.marfell@acat.me.uk

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