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19th Annual ACAT Conference Summary Programme

19th Annual ACAT Conference Summary Programme Thursday 5th July, 2012 Friday 6th July, 2012 Saturday 7th July, 2012 09:00 - 10:30 Plenary Session - Main Lecture Theatre 1. 'Connecting, splitting and attending - dialogue...


ACAT AGM 2024

The 2024 Annual General Meeting will take place during the ACAT Annual Conference. Please refer to the following page for further information: https://www.acat.me.uk/page/annual+general+meeting...


ACAT Consultation 2016

ACAT Consultation 2016 Report and Feedback to ACAT Members Contents 1. Matters Consulted on 2. Summary of Member Responses to Consultation 3. Response from ACAT Board of Trustees 4. Member Responses to Consultation 5. Previously Unpublis...


CAT Supervisor Listings

New CAT Supervisor Listings Following a number of requests from CAT Supervisors we have now created a new listings facility on the ACAT website to allow CAT Supervisors to post their Private Supervision services online in the same way as they might...


Conference Workshop Programme and Posters 2017

Conference Workshop and Poster Presentations 2017 Main Conference page: http://www.acat.me.uk/event/890/ Please note that times and contents may be subject to change Once you have booked to attend the Conference, please select to attend one works...


Help For Group Administrators

A Quick Guide to Help Administrators with Running their Special Interest or Regional Group Online You can view the new Special Interest Groups and Regional Groups if you're logged into ACAT as a current full member. If you are the Administrato...


Members' services

Members’ services As a member of ACAT, you are part of a community who have an interest in promoting, practising and developing cognitive analytic ideas and practice. The following pages will help you build local CAT networks with an invitati...


Register of ACAT Members

Register of ACAT Members The ACAT Register of Members lists all ACAT accredited and registered CAT Therapists / Practitioners and CAT Psychotherapists who are current members of ACAT. For a list of therapists working in private practice, please cl...


Requirements for Private Practice Listing

Requirements for Private Practice Listing on ACATonline In order to ensure quality and consistency of the private practice listings on ACATonline, and in line with ACAT's policy for promoting Private Practitioners on the website the following re...


Training - Members

Training The training pages give comprehensive information on all the courses and events promoted, supported or run by ACAT across the UK. Forthcoming courses are listed below. Click on the details to see the full event information. There is also ...


Website Privacy Policy

Website Privacy Policy Privacy and cookies Protecting your Privacy, the ACAT Promise "Because your data and privacy are so important, I wanted to let you know that when you share your information with ACAT, we take our responsibilities and ob...


Welcome

Tweets by Assoc_CAT Welcome To Your ACAT Home Page Welcome to your personal section of the ACAT website. The links below will take you to your accounts, events attended and personal training history, as well as a wealth of other information. Click ...


Home

Welcome to ACAT Welcome to the website for the Association for Cognitive Analytic Therapy (ACAT), a registered charity. We welcome members of the public, health professionals, ACAT accredited professionals, and anyone interested in finding out more ...


About CAT

What is CAT? CAT stands for Cognitive Analytic Therapy; a collaborative programme for looking at the way a person thinks, feels and acts, and the events and relationships that underlie these experiences (often from childhood or earlier in life). As ...


More about CAT

More about CAT CAT is an integrative model of human development and of psychotherapy drawing on ideas as mentioned below. It is a fundamentally relational model, both in its view of human development and in its practice of psychotherapy. At its hear...


CAT Library

The CAT Library, and Bibliography The ACAT library has been a very helpful source of publications about CAT. It was first established in 2009 and a major undertaking. It allowed members to download peer review articles and some chapters. Due to copy...


Training In CAT

Training in Cognitive Analytic Therapy Introduction CAT is a versatile approach to psychological help and there are three main areas of the application of CAT in practice which is reflected in our training: CAT as a psychological therapy focusing...


ACAT Events

ACAT is monitoring information regarding Coronavirus. Should UK Government advice force us to cancel any events delegates will be given as much notice as reasonably possible. Events and CPD ACAT promotes and supports a number of events aimed at AC...


Research

The Story of Research into Cognitive Analytic Therapy: Tony Ryle Research has always been integral to the CAT approach. Dr Anthony Ryle, the founder of CAT, comments that: “Working with patients to find the best descriptions of what it was we ...


Members' Home Page Introduction

Home page Welcome to the members’ section of the ACAT website. The quick links below will take you to your accounts, events attended and personal training history. Please make sure that your contact details are kept up to date – click h...


How does CAT work?

How does CAT work? CAT is a very active therapy, inviting you to be the observer of your own life and to take part in what needs change. The changes needed may be small, such as stopping being caught in a trap of avoiding things, or they may be larg...


Case histories and client's personal stories

Case histories Karen's story This is a case history written by Liz McCormick - it draws on different clients' stories as a way of explaining how CAT works. All the clients gave Liz permission to use their stories in her self help book '...


CAT Competences: Skilful CAT in Practice

Developing a competence framework for Cognitive Analytic Therapy One of the ways in which psychotherapies are adopted in the NHS is through the publication of competence frameworks. These are formal documents, available online, which set out in clea...


How can I get to see a CAT therapist

How can I get to see a CAT therapist Many CAT therapists (practitioners) and psychotherapists work in the NHS but not all localities have CAT services. It is sometimes offered in primary care. There are many secondary care and specialist CAT service...


What has been written about CAT?

What has been written about CAT? Reformulation This is the newsletter for the Association for Cognitive Analytic Therapy. It is published twice a year and is free to members. You can read more about Reformulation by clicking here: More about Refor...


Covid-19 Impact on Training

Adaptations to CAT Training during the Covid-19 period, and Remote and Hybrid Training In May 2020 due to the impact of Covid-19 on CAT training we agreed the following Key Principles: • ACAT will not be lowering standards as regards the lear...


The levels of ACAT accredited training

The levels of ACAT accredited CAT training and what they qualify you to do ACAT offers and oversees accredited courses in CAT at four levels. ACAT also offers introductory workshops and CPD (continuing professional development) events. Local or ...


CAT Practitioner Training

CAT Practitioner Training Practitioner training enables core mental health professionals with competence in their own field to enhance their understanding and skills in a specific psychological therapy by learning the theory and methods of CAT as a...


CAT Supervisor Training

CAT Supervisor Training: Guidelines for Training The usual pathway for training as a CAT Supervisor is that You will be a CAT Practitioner or a CAT Psychotherapist You have prior experience of offering clinical supervision. You will have completed...


CAT Foundation Training

CAT Foundation Training The CAT Foundation course, accessible to professions with prior training in psychological therapies, aims to equip trainees with the CAT skills and competencies for working primarily within one to one therapy roles, usually i...


CAT Skills Training

CAT Skills Case Management Courses This training is designed for generic workers in health, caring and support worker roles to acquire a useful working understanding of CAT to inform their routine practice. The aim is not to train people to become ...


Introductory Courses in CAT

Introduction to CAT Courses ACAT CAT Introductory workshops are designed to stimulate interest in CAT and keep ACAT members up to date. They are not ACAT accredited trainings and do not equip someone to offer CAT as a psychological therapy. These a...


CAT Competences Framework

CAT Competences Framework: A Competency Approach to Training The framework describes the full family of CAT competences defining the knowledge and skills required to facilitate safe and effective CAT. The framework and specific competences are des...


App 2 Personal Development and Personal Therapy as part of CAT Training

Training in CAT || Appendix 2 Personal Development and Personal Therapy as part of CAT Training As CAT is a relational approach, the way therapeutic work impinges on and requires the use of self and self-reflection is a core element of CAT training...


Support for CAT research

Support for Research ACAT does not carry out its own research (ie it does not employ a research team) and mainly offers advice and support to mental health professionals who may, in the course of their clinical or academic work, wish to carry out ...


Summaries and meta-analyses of CAT research

Summaries and Meta-analyses of CAT Research Cognitive analytic therapy at 30 (2014) Ryle, A. Kellett, S. Hepple, J. & Calvert, R. (2014). Cognitive analytic therapy at 30. Advances in Psychiatric Treatment, 20, 258 – 268 Cognitive ...


Recently Published CAT Research

Recently Published CAT Research This is a listing of selected recent research publications or summaries about cognitive analytic therapy since 2014. They are generally written for a professional or academic audience. We are producing some more acces...


Research and Communication Committee

The Research and Communication Committee The R & C committee has been established to advise on research related to Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) and communicate the CAT evidence-base and understanding. According to its Terms of Reference it w...


ACAT Research Strategy

Please click on the link below to 'Downloadable Policy Documents from ACAT' for a pdf of ACAT's current Research Strategy 2017 - 2020 https://www.acat.me.uk/page/policies+and+official+documents Information added 15.01.2019...


The range of CAT services - NHS and beyond

The range of CAT services - NHS, private therapy and beyond Many CAT practitioners and psychotherapists work in the NHS but not all localities have CAT services. It is sometimes offered in primary care. There are many secondary care and specialist ...


What has been written about CAT?

What has been written about CAT? Reformulation This is the newsletter for the Association for Cognitive Analytic Therapy. It is published twice a year and is free to members. For a list of contents for the current edition, follow this link. Resear...


Local and Special Interest Groups

Local and Special Interest Groups There are a number of locally organised local groups of CAT members and Special Interest Groups (SIGs). Each group has their own programme which may include hosting speakers on a wide range of topics associated with...


ACAT Email Newsletters

ACAT Email Newsletters We send out two or three ACAT e-Newsletters each year to subscribed members. Previous newsletters are now on the site as an archive in case you are interested in what's been going on in ACAT... "There were many reas...


ACAT and Social Media

Guidance on Use of Social Media for ACAT Members Social media has become part of day-to-day life for many, and members may well be using different forms of social media for both personal and professional purposes. ACAT does not have a specific socia...


UK Mental Health News

UK Mental Health News We have gathered together a set of links to mental health news sites from around the UK. Click on the links below to view the current news on each site and link through to the full stories. These news feeds are checked every ti...


The Wider Mental Health Community

The Wider Mental Health Community There is a wealth of information relating to mental health issues available to both members of the public and other health professions. We have listed some of the websites which offer additional information –...


ACAT Membership

Association for Cognitive Analytic Therapy - Membership Section 1: Information about linking with ACAT for those visitors to the site not in training or accredited in CAT. 1.1. Register as a User of the site - FREE We warmly invite you to regist...


Policies and official documents

ACAT Policies and Official Documents Here you can find a list of our public information documents and policies. Please scroll down the page for these documents in PDF format. If you do not have a PDF reader then you can download one for free from ww...


ACAT's committees

ACAT - The Organisation Download a pdf of this chart by clicking here The above contact details have since changed. Please refer to the following webpage for current information: https://www.acat.me.uk/page/whos+who Registered Office address: B...


Who's Who in ACAT / Contact Us

Who's Who in ACAT ACAT Administration ACAT PO Box 6793 Dorchester DT1 9DL Administration Manager - Maria Cross | Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday 9 to 5 | Thursday 8.30 to 12 | maria.cross@acat.me.uk | admin@acat.me.uk | 07598 725 789 Administr...


Tony Ryle - a biography

Dr Tony Ryle 1927 - 2016 Dr Tony Ryle, the founder of Cognitive Analytic Therapy Tony Ryle’s first work was in General Practice. Together with colleagues who shared his socialist and egalitarian views and his support for the newly established...


Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently Asked Questions How can I download receipts for my payments? Just log into the website then, from your homepage, scroll down to the “Your Accounts” bar and select the “Your Accounts with Receipts” tab. Select t...


Reformulation - the newsletter for ACAT

Reformulation - the newsletter for the Association for Cognitive Analytic Therapy Reformulation is committed to upholding a broadly based view of the Cognitive Analytic approach and developments within CAT. Reformulation considers articles on CAT...


Media Information

Media Information and Resources The spokesperson for matters relating to the Association for Cognitive Analytic Therapy is Liz McCormick. Please contact the ACAT Administrators in the first instance and they will be able to help direct your query as...


Find a Private CAT Therapist

Find a Private CAT Therapist All members on our "Find a CAT Therapist" list are private ACAT Accredited CAT Therapists / Practitioners or CAT Psychotherapists and are current members of ACAT, are in supervision for their CAT work, adhere t...


Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently Asked Questions I don't appear to be able to access the site from work or download any documents. Can you help? Many employers, especially those in the public sector, have stringent protection and access restrictions on the computers...


Privacy Notice

Website Privacy Policy Privacy and cookies Updated December 2023 Protecting your Privacy, the ACAT Promise Because your data and privacy are so important, when you share your information with ACAT, we take our responsibilities and obligatio...


Code of Ethics and Practice

ACAT Code of Ethics and Practice Revised and Amended. Approved at ACAT’s AGM on: 11 July 2014 Revised October 2018; October 2019; October 2023 INTRODUCTION The following is intended to guide the ethical and professional conduct of members a...


ACAT CPD Policy

ACAT Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Policy Revised January 2018 This new ACAT CPD (Continuing Professional Development) Policy replaces the previous policy dated April 2010 and revised in September 2011 Introduction Following ACAT&r...


Exam Board, including submission dates

Examination Board The Examination Board is the accreditation body of ACAT for individual trainees, trainers and supervisors. The Board also monitors and audits national standards of marking. The Exam Board has the same membership as the Training Com...


ACAT Newsletter 1 - April 2010

ACAT Email Newsletter 1 - April 2010 Welcome to this first edition of our new ACAT e-newsletter. There were many reasons for thinking that we needed a more informal and light-hearted format for sharing information within the CAT community. I gue...


ACAT Newsletter 2 - August 2010

ACAT Email Newsletter 2 - August 2010 I’ve recently returned from the ACAT Annual conference at Hertfordshire University – an immensely enjoyable and successful two days. Good lecturers and a great range of workshops. Several people ...


ACAT Newsletter 3 - March 2011

ACAT Email Newsletter 3 - March 2011 Since getting involved in ACAT I have occasionally thought about it as a swan – sailing gently and serenely down the river – whilst paddling furiously underneath. The newsletter will, I hope,...


ACAT Newsletter 4 - December 2011

ACAT Email Newsletter 4 - December 2011 Click here to Download this Newsletter as a PDF I didn’t think I’d be writing this with Christmas in sight, but the long gap since the publication of the previous newsletter is down to the w...


ACAT Newsletter 5 - May 2012

ACAT Email Newsletter 5 - May 2012 May I take two minutes of your time? I realise how busy everyone is nowadays but I hope you'll find time to cast your eye over the newsletter - there is important information if you work as a private th...


ACAT Newsletter 6 - December 2012

ACAT Email Newsletter 6 - December 2012 Season’s Greetings to you all! I expect this will be finding its way into your inbox with only a few days to go to Christmas, so I hope you all have a good break and a renewal of energy to gr...


ACAT Newsletter - May 2017

ACAT Newsletter May 2017 Welcome to the ACAT Newsletter – our “in brief” update on the latest ACAT news and developments which we hope will inform members and help people to feel in touch with their Association. In this editi...


ACAT Newsletter - August 2017

ACAT Newsletter August 2017 Welcome again to the ACAT Newsletter – we imagine a lot of ACAT members will be away enjoying some summer sunshine but hope that you will catch up on the latest ACAT news and developments on your return. This issue...


Additional information on using Twitter

To read ACAT's 'Social Media guidance for use for ACAT members' please follow this link - https://www.acat.me.uk/page/acat+and+social+media. The following articles are reproduced from ACAT Newsletters in 2016 and 2017, plus tips on usin...


Bursaries

ACAT Conference Bursaries Bursary applications are welcome until Friday 18th April 2024. Please download the application form via Event Documents at the event page https://www.acat.me.uk/event/1292/ ...


Covid Guidance

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Miscellaneous

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Programme

Programme Thursday 18th July 12:30pm to 1:30pm Registration 1.40pm – 1.55pm Welcome and introduction 1.55pm – 3.05pm Keynote: Ms Bamidele Adenipekun - 'It’s good to talk, but can I trust you?' 3...


Equality and Diversity in ACAT

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee (EDIC) ACAT’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee (EDIC) is a sub-committee of the Board of Trustees and Council of Management. Its terms of reference are To report to the Board of Trust...


Equality and Diversity Policy

ACAT’s Equality and Diversity Policy Introduction CAT promotes an active engagement with difference. It therefore seeks to provide a framework for the profession of psychological therapy that allows competing and diverse ideas and perspecti...


Support for Members

How can the EDC support me? The EDC have set up an informal support system for ACAT members. The aim of the support system will be to provide a safe space whereby members can receive informal support and discuss difficulties around inequalities. T...


Inequality and Diversity Special Interest Group

ACAT supports a number of Special Interest Groups (SIGs) for members and friends of ACAT. Several of these are relevant to different aspects of equality and diversity. One is a dedicated SIG: CAT Inequality and Diversity Special Interest Group Thi...


Equality and Diversity Resources

The EDC collated a resource list on Equality and Diversity issues in 2018. ACAT members can download a copy of the resource list from your home page under Cat Practice/CAT Tools/Training Document – Equality and Diversity Reading and Resource L...


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