Web-site restrictions

ACAT is moving to a new website shortly. Due to unforeseen technical issues, the launch has been postponed briefly until Tuesday, 6th May.

In preparation, this website no longer lets members renew their membership. ACAT Administration are likewise unable to process membership renewals until the new site opens.

Please do not update any personal details on your member/friend profile, as changes at this point will not be transferred to the new site.

Thank you for your patience, and we look forward to welcoming you to a new website after the Early May bank holiday.

Using CAT in Team Consultancy

CAT has a well-established approach to team-based training which is used throughout the UK. This can be particularly helpful for clients with complex presentations who may struggle to form collaborative treatment relationships and whose interpersonal difficulties may play out in the team or systems around them. 

How can CAT help?

Clarifies the team task

  • Formulation and care/treatment planning
  • ‘With’ not ‘about’ the patient/service user

Offers a shared language for formulation

  • Acceptable to wide range of backgrounds
  • Reduces inter-disciplinary tension

Non-collusion with problem patterns

  • Non-blaming, supportive, containing framework for everyone – including the client
  • How not to get caught up in automatically responding to the patient’s difficult behaviour and emotional reactions.

How not to get caught up in automatically responding to the patient’s difficult behaviour and emotional reactions.

Contextual reformulation is an approach which has evolved out of attempts to address more complex processes involved in the perpetuation and exacerbation of an individual’s psychopathology.

In contrast to a CAT personal reformulation:

  • It takes account of (reformulates) the wider system within which the user and worker are embedded
  • It draws on concepts from systemic therapy and organisational theory
  • It is a service response to making sense of and formulating complex cases

“Contextual reformulation integrates an understanding of the patient’s difficulties with problematic professional responses, reframing what it means to hold an adaptive professional position when trying to help such patients”. (Ian Kerr). 

Glenys Parry

UK Council for Psychotherapy
ACAT Calendar for May
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88th May 2025
CPD Event: CAT and Reflective Practice: Skills for Facilitation - offered by Catalyse
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1717th May 2025
CPD Event: EDI Race and Culture CPD workshop - offered by CAT Cumbria
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CPD Event: ACAT: The embodiment of reciprocal roles as a reflective
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ACAT Annual Conference: 29th ACAT National Conference
ACAT AGM: Annual General Meeting
ACAT Annual Conference: ACAT National Conference 2025
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