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Developing Consultancy Skills offered by Catalyse
4th June 2015 to 5th June 2015

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Developing Consultancy Skills in Mental Health Work: A Cognitive Analytic Approach

2-days led by Dr Angela Carradice and Dr Dawn Bennett

Dates: 4 & 5th June, 2015  (Thursday and Friday)

Time: 10am to 4:45pm

Venue: Dalton Ellis Hall, University of Manchester, M14 5RL

Fee: £225 – ACAT members  / £250 – Non-ACAT  (includes lunch, refreshments and course handouts)

About the training:
This course is an overview of using CAT consultancy skills at different levels of working.   The course introduces different approaches and goes into some detail about a number of different methods of CAT Consultancy.  It is particularly useful as an introduction to CAT consultancy and to help more experienced consultants further reflect on and develop their skills across a range of situations.  This course is a good introduction for those interested in a more detailed skills training course which focuses on one specific approach: ‘Five Session CAT Consultancy’ which takes place on 8th & 9th October 2015.

Aims of the Course:
The two-days will outline approaches to using CAT indirectly within mental health services. We will begin by using CAT to understand and work with the organisation, progressing to the use of CAT at team level, through the use of Contextual Reformulations, then working indirectly with care co-ordinators to inform care planning. We will use case examples at each level to demonstrate examples of applications and the principles of the approaches.  We will also use group exercises to help participants practice skills and begin to apply the approaches to their own consultative work.

Who is the course for?
As the course is specifically focused on building understanding and skills in using CAT in Internal consultancy it is particularly designed for those who provide indirect consultancy or are planning to begin. They will have a core profession in mental health work and a professional role in providing consultations or supporting teams. The course wouldn’t be relevant to a professional who is working individually with clients and is planning to continue to work mainly at this level or for someone who is working externally to teams. It is an advantage that participants have sufficient CAT knowledge and skills to be able to focus on the purpose of the course.

It is ideally suited to CAT practitioners, those in training or who have completed a work-based placement in CAT and had supervised practice of at least one CAT therapy.  The clinical case examples will all be drawn from adult secondary and tertiary level mental health services (community and inpatient) and considered complex, with diagnosis being some form of PD and/or psychosis.

Details of the course facilitators:
Dr Angela Carradice and Dr Dawn Bennett
Angela is a consultant clinical psychologist working in both the NHS and private practice.  Her NHS career has largely been working in a split post across both Adult inpatient and community services.  More recently Angela has focussed on community services and she currently leads on CAT and PD across the CMHTs in Sheffield.  In private practice, Angela provides training (mainly on working with complex cases) and supervision for both direct and indirect work.  Angela is a CAT practitioner and CAT supervisor, whose work has also been influenced by systemic thinking and organisational psychology.  Her passion is to work as an integrated team member using CAT to meet the needs of the context in which she works.  This has involved developing ways of using CAT indirectly, as well as providing individual CAT therapy for service users.  Angela is also a trainer and supervisor with CAT North.

Dawn is consultant clinical psychologist working both in the NHS and privately. In the NHS she has worked in in-patient and community services in Adult Mental Health and is currently psychology professional lead. Dawn is a CAT Psychotherapist and CAT supervisor and she has been actively involved as a trainer/supervisor with the CAT North/Catalyse Practitioner Course. She has run CAT skills courses for generic mental health workers in community and in-patient teams and is interested in promoting psychologically informed care.

Places are limited to a maximum of 35 participants

A booking form may be downloaded - please scroll to the end of this page

For further course and booking information please refer to the Catalyse website:

http://catalyse.uk.com/index.php/events-and-calendar/developing-consultancy-skills-in-mh-work-cat-approach/

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