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CAT and The Power Threat Meaning Framework A dialogue
19th May 2023

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CAT and the Power Threat Meaning Framework – In Dialogue:

A presentation with Dr Ray Middleton

co-facilitated by Fi Conington, CAT Psychotherapist.

9:30 – 4:00 Friday May 19^th 2023

This one day online training workshop will be an interactive training experience with space for questions and discussion. The trainer, Ray Middleton, is a member of the UK British Psychological Society (BPS) committee that oversees the dissemination of the Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF) and chairs the training sub-committee. 

We will be explaining and exploring this non-pathologising, strengths-based alternative to diagnosis for understanding how people may experience distress, adversity, troubled and troubling behaviour. The session will include considerations of how power operates in people’s lives both positively and negatively, how threats to core needs and rights may be relevant to understanding distress, and how people may respond to these threats and make sense of what is happening to them. It will explore differences and similarities in the PTMF formulation process and CAT reformulation and provide an opportunity for reflection on how CAT may offer a treatment response in the context of a PTMF formulation. 

Cost:  £50 ACAT members/£70 non-ACAT members

Ray Middleton, PhD, has over 30 years' experience of training and workforce development in mental health focusing on reaching people experiencing multiple disadvantages including combinations of; complex trauma, mental health, substance misuse and housing needs. Ray’s training offer focuses on; Trauma-Informed Practice (TIP), Psychologically Informed Environments (PIE), The Power Threat Meaning Framework, Pre-treatment and "How to facilitate Group Reflective Practice." He has written a chapter for a book comparing the USA and the UK around innovative approaches: Cross-Cultural Dialogues on Homelessness: From Pretreatment Strategies to Psychologically Informed Environments. Ray has extensive experience delivering services to people on the frontline - including managing community “Personality Disorder” services and being a Care-Coordinator in an Early Intervention in Psychosis service in the UK - where he chaired an "Open Dialogue" innovative working group. He draws on personal lived experience of surviving complex childhood trauma grounding his values and his motivation to persevere in this area of workforce development.

For booking queries please email alison.marfell@acat.me.uk

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