CAT Practitioner Training - North London
20th September 2011 to 25th June 2013


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North London CAT Practitioner Training/
PG Diploma in CAT

The course is run by the Psychological Therapies Service Haringey at Halliwick St Ann’s Hospital, BEH-MHT, and accredited by
The Association for Cognitive Analytic Therapy (ACAT)
and Sheffield Hallam University (SHU)

Applications for this course have now closed.

CAT Practitioner Training

CAT Practitioner Training is a two-year course leading to ACAT and SHU Accreditation. Following accreditation you become eligible for full membership of the Association for Cognitive Analytic Therapy (ACAT) and may practice CAT within your core profession. Course graduates are eligible to apply to do a further two years’ Psychotherapy Training in CAT, leading to UKCP registration. There is also the option of an MSc in CAT directly with SHU on completion of the training.

Course Aim & Structure

The course aims to provide a training in the theory and clinical application of Cognitive Analytic Therapy. This enables professionals with established competence in their own field to enhance their understanding and skills in psychotherapy using the CAT model. The taught component of the course is spread over two years and consists of training days, seminar groups, supervised clinical work and a personal therapy experience of a 16 session CAT.

How to Apply

Applicants are asked to submit a completed application form (requests to Course Director, details below) and a current CV (two referees are required). Additionally, if you are an external applicant (i.e. not from beh-mht), we ask you to provide details of a likely source of referrals, supervision arrangements and a venue for seeing patients/clients.

Application forms and full course information can be downloaded from further down this page.

In addition, applicants are asked to provide a Personal Statement, giving a brief outline of :

• Your current therapeutic approach and what you hope to gain from training in CAT (300 words)
• Why it is important for clinicians to develop an understanding of their own emotional life (500 words)

Application forms along with the initial (non returnable) application fee of £20 by cheque, are to be made payable to BEH-MHT and sent to:

Shirley Akgun, Course Director,
Psychological Therapies Service at Halliwick,
St Ann’s Hospital, St Ann’s Road,
Tottenham, London N15 3TH

Enquiries via e-mail to:
Shirley.Akgun@beh-mht.nhs.uk

Short-listed applicants will then be invited for interview in March 2011. If you are short-listed you will be required to pay a further £55 interview fee. The yearly fee is £2400 per annum (£2,000 for BEH employees), which includes training, seminar groups, tutorials, supervision (if clinical work is undertaken at the Halliwick), the ACAT Trainee membership fee and Sheffield Hallam University fees.
 


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