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CAT Skills: 6 month course
30th June 2015 to 19th January 2016

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CAT Skills Training 2015 - 2016
30th June 2015 to 19th January 2016
Southampton

With Jane Stephens and Deborah Tee

Leading to a Skills Training Certificate Accredited by the Association for Cognitive Analytic Therapy (ACAT)

This Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) Skills Training is designed for those individuals working across a variety of health care settings who wish to acquire a basic understanding of CAT and apply CAT principles in their routine work. You may be working with clients on an individual or group basis and may or may not be providing 1:1 therapy as part of your role. 

Venue:
Tatchbury Mount, Calmore, Southampton, Hampshire  SO40 2RZ

6 Training dates 2015-16:
Tuesday 30th June
Tuesday 7th July
Tuesday 6th October
Tuesday 27th October
Tuesday 24th November
Tuesday 19th January

The course consists of six Theory & Skills training days combined with 35 hours of supervised clinical work (accrued via weekly group supervision), a single personal development therapy session (typically 3 hours with an external therapist) and two reflective pieces of writing (an essay and case study, each 2,500 words) on the understanding and use of CAT. The course aims to enable professionals with competence in their own mental health field to enhance their relational and therapeutic skills, utilising CAT principles and methods within their usual practice.

The training will be of value for psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses, therapists, counsellors or social workers, working across a variety of adult mental health care settings. The course also provides excellent continuing professional development opportunities for staff from all professional backgrounds.

This post-qualifying course values the variety of professional and life experiences that trainees will bring to the training, and recognises both the enhanced contribution they can make to the training and the different learning needs they will have from those of pre-qualification students. The professional and personal contribution trainees can make to the course will be welcome and valued.

What is CAT?

Cognitive analytic therapy is a fundamentally relational model, in which the establishment of a collaborative, meaning-making relationship between client and care giver (or group of individuals) is central in the process of self-discovery and change. Its theoretical roots draw on both cognitive and psychoanalytic concepts, with the addition of current ideas from dialogism and the relational way in which we construe and make sense of ourselves, others and the world.

It is a therapy which is proving popular across a wide range of health care settings and clinical disciplines in meeting the needs of individuals with a diverse range of problems including complex / chronic difficulties and personality disorder.

Syllabus

The following core topics will be covered in this training:

1.    Definition of ‘self’ and its developmental origins from a general and in particular CAT perspective.

2.    Overview of recent developments in infant psychology.

3.    Overview of CAT as a model of individual therapy (including therapeutic focus, style, use of reformulation documents, consideration of phases of therapy, in particular time limitation).

4.    How CAT understands psychopathology (with an emphasis on the CAT view of psychopathology as fundamentally influenced by the internalisation of reciprocal roles and their procedural enactments).

5.    The CAT frame work for understanding complex disorders particularly borderline and narcissistic personality disorders.

6.    Consideration of the CAT “doing with” therapeutic style.

7.    The therapeutic alliance and the important determining factors in this, particularly from the CAT perspective.

8.    Using CAT other than in individual therapy; CAT in groups, Contextual CAT – using CAT to understand the responses of teams to complex patients.

9.    Issues of social power and context which impact on treatment (through e.g. ‘power mapping techniques’).

10.  Sessions working in small discussion/experiential groups using clinical / taught materials to explore practice e.g. reformulations, goodbye letters and diagrams. Experiential sessions may include tasks such as sketching out of personal family trees and of the roles and reciprocal procedures which may have been passed down through these; a drawing or painting session where participants may be invited to explore the development of their own self.

Who is this course for?

• Participants will need a core mental health profession, have employment in a health / mental health care setting, some familiarity with psychological approaches and interest in and aptitude for interpersonal and relational approaches to their work.
• All participants will usually be expected to have either attended a two day introduction training to CAT, or to have been in CAT supervision for at least 6 months.
• Completion of all course components and submission of written work will lead to Skills Certificate Accreditation by the Association for Cognitive Analytic Therapy (ACAT) in the UK.

Course Directors and Trainers

Jane Stephens (Director) is an accredited CAT Psychotherapist and Supervisor. She has been working in the NHS in mental health for the last 15 years, and currently works part time in Adult Mental Health in the Community Treatment team offering CAT to individuals. Her particular areas of interest are in training and supervision across the Mental Health Team. Jane has a private practice, which includes links with a private hospital where she consults and supervises. She has previously co-facilitated the CAT practitioner training in Southampton and currently co-facilitates the ACAT Relational Skills in Supervision Intensive Residential with Steve Potter. Jane is also employed by ACAT as the External Examiner for Supervisor Accreditation.

Deborah Tee (Co-director) is an ACAT accredited CAT psychotherapist and supervisor. Her professional background is mental health nursing; qualifying in 2002 and working across in-patient and community, NHS and private health settings, before training in CAT. Her particular areas of interest lie in working with adults with complex health needs and also in facilitating CAT supervision, consultation and formulation driven care delivery with individual practitioners and teams. Additionally she has extensive experience of working in the eating disorders field. She currently works within the Psychological Therapies Service, East Hampshire; providing individual and group work to people with psychosis and bi-polar disorder.

Clare Corbridge (Invited trainer) is a Clinical Psychologist, CAT Practitioner and Supervisor.

Laura Brummer (Invited trainer) is a Clinical Psychologist, CAT Practitioner and Supervisor.

External Examiner
The moderator/examiner(s) will ensure that the training course meets the standards and requirements set by ACAT for Skills Level training.

Costs
£1,400.00 (6 training days, course work marking, ½ day personal development session and accreditation with ACAT).

Additional Supervision Fees
External applicants in a position to see patients within Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust will receive free supervision.

All other applicants should expect to negotiate and pay for their own external weekly supervision by private arrangement. Supervisors need to be accredited practitioners with ACAT. For this training they do not need to be accredited as a supervisor – however if you wish cases undertaken in this training to be considered as cases for future trainings, it is important that you are supervised by an ACAT accredited supervisor.

Closing date for applications:
11th May 2015

Enquiries:
Jane Stephens, Tel: 023 80 717204, Email: jane.stephens@southernhealth.nhs.uk
or
Deborah Tee, Tel: 01329 288331, Email: deborah.tee@southernhealth.nhs.uk

Application Form:
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Please submit to:
Jane Stephens, jane.stephens@southernhealth.nhs.uk
or
Deborah Tee, deborah.tee@southernhealth.nhs.uk
by 10th May 2015.

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