The Ailment - Applying CAT to Working with Complex Cases
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24th Apr 2010

The Ailment - Applying CAT to working with Complex Cases and the Contextual Reformulation of these Cases

Venue: Franklin Wilkins Building, King's College, London

Date: Saturday 24th April 2010

Time: 10am - 4.30pm

Led by Claire Tanner

Claire Tanner is a Senior CAT trainer and supervisor and has worked in a wide variety of settings in the NHS over the past 18 years. Her main expertise is with personality disordered patients and eating disordered patients. She is currently working at the Maudsley Hospital supervising in three specialist units and at Vincent Square Eating Disorder Service two days a week as well as maintaining a small private practice.

CAT is increasingly used for complex cases in CMHTs, Specialist Services, Psychological Services and in IAPT.  Complex cases often have obscure or poor outcomes and this affects the therapists and the treatment teams.  Competition between models can flare up, staff stress levels increase, patients are discharged and re-referred in a revolving door scenario.

In 1957 Thomas Main wrote the Ailment to describe the process and effect these types of patients had on staff both individually and as a team.   The insights his paper provided about these patients can be applied today with as great a benefit as almost 60 years ago.

Using the CAT model I would like to continue to develop the insights from the Ailment in order to help us to understand how difficult hard to treat patients impact on us as therapists and on us as colleagues in MDT settings.  Using the CAT language we can first of all understand our relationships with such patients and the difficult relationships we can re-enact with colleagues when we treat these patients.

The day will be divided into two parts, firstly a talk about complex cases and the CAT model and secondly there will be experiential exercises that will help us explore using CAT with complex cases.

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