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Working Collaboratively with Medically Unexplained Symptoms - offered by Catalyse
26th September 2016

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Overview of the workshop:

  • To understand the application of CAT principles when working with people who present with disabling or distressing physical symptoms where medical explanation and intervention is inadequate.
  • To gain knowledge of the spectrum of severity of MUS and which interventions are likely to be helpful;  to be aware of evidence for effectiveness both from randomized trials and outcome data from CAT with one year follow up.
  • To gain knowledge of when CAT is likely to be the treatment of choice, or when CBT can be enhanced by some CAT principles.  
  • To learn how to formulate these issues and engage the patient in a psychological understanding, including the opportunity to formulate a case from one’s own practice

Who is it for?

CAT therapists or those with some knowledge of CAT, also useful for qualified therapists working in MUS with an interest in learning more about CAT approach to this client group.

Facilitators: 

Dr Alison Jenaway is a Consultant psychiatrist working with the Addenbrooke’s Hospital liaison psychiatry team. She is an experienced CAT practitioner and supervisor.  She has pioneered the use of CAT for people with a wide range of somatic symptoms.  She is an executive committee member for the Royal College of Psychiatrists Faculty of Psychotherapy.  

Professor Glenys Parry is an experienced CAT psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer who also has a research background in medically unexplained symptoms and psychological aspects of physical disorders, including somatization, frequent attendance in primary care, psycho-oncology and respiratory disorders.  She is currently a co-investigator in an NIHR-commissioned systematic review of research on psychological therapies for MUS in primary care. 

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