ACAT Training: Two day introduction to Cognitive Analytic Therapy
10th November 2011 to 11th November 2011
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Introducing Cognitive Analytic Therapy
A two-day introduction to key skills and concepts
This highly rated short course is offered by the Association for Cognitive Analytic Therapy (ACAT) for people new to the CAT way of working.
Dates: Thursday and Friday, 10th and 11th November, 2011
Times: 10:00 - 17:00 on Thursday || 9:30 - 16:30 on Friday
Venue: Chancellors Hotel and Conference Centre, Chancellors Way, Manchester (postcode available upon request).
Aims and Background
An introduction to the ideas, methods and skills of Cognitive Analytic Therapy. Participants will gain skills in mapping, tracking and negotiating problem patterns of interactions 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 conceptual tools to be taught
- The influence of early interactions in shaping personality
- Developing therapeutic attitudes, working with enactments and therapeutic moments
- Relational understanding of trauma
- Reciprocal roles and a dialogic understanding of problem patterns
Typical methods to be practiced
- Making maps side by side with the client
- Use of reformulatory diagrams and writing to hold and guide therapy
- Working directly and indirectly with a client in a variety of clinical applications
- 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
Who for? Clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, nurses, counsellors, social workers and others working professionally with mental health
Course Trainers: Sarah Littlejohn and Steve Potter have been teaching and training CAT for many years
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