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Welcome to ACAT

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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. We hope the following pages will inform and inspire and, for those new to Cognitive Analytic Therapy, encourage further interest and, perhaps, even training in CAT.

The website offers an introduction to 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.

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Coronavirus - ACAT Administration and office arrangements

The ACAT Administrators will be working from home until the situation surrounding coronavirus becomes more settled.  Although we will continue to have email access during normal working hours, we will not be able to take telephone enquiries or acknowledge answerphone messages, and responses to postal communication will be delayed.  We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause.  If you have an urgent query, please email the appropriate member of staff who will respond as soon as they are able: 

 https://www.acat.me.uk/page/acat+administration

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Coronavirus and ACAT events

We are regularly monitoring updates from the Government in relation to events and coronavirus.  Should it be necessary for ACAT to cancel an event, we will notify delegates as soon as we are able within our normal working hours and the event fee will be refunded.  We would advise you not to arrange travel in advance as ACAT cannot offer refunds for other expenses incurred.

Please contact local group organisers in respect of non-ACAT events.

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Coronavirus and ACAT training courses

For trainees currently involved in CAT training, click on the following link for information on the changes and adaptations to our training requirements during the period of lockdown and social distancing due to Covid-19.  This also includes information on the paperless accreditation submission process for the June 2020 Exam Board onwards.  Course Directors will also provide additional course-specific information.  

 https://www.acat.me.uk/page/covid+19+impact+on+training 

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ACAT Reformulation

Above is the link to our first electronic edition of Reformulation. The COVID pandemic has catalysed our re-evaluation to connecting with you, our readership. On this occasion the Editorial Board has offered this first electronic edition of Reformulation free to public domain access. We invite you to share this gift beyond the CAT world and continue to invite reflection grounded in the course of the everyday.  Nick Barnes & Rob Lam || Editors

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Quick Links

About CAT – an introduction

• Is CAT right for me?
• How does CAT work?
• Clients' personal stories
• Finding a private CAT therapist
• What is the difference between CAT and CBT?

More about CAT - for professionals

• CAT with different patient groups
• Indirect working - using CAT in case management
• Special interest and regional groups
• Books and papers
• Job vacancies

About ACAT – the organisation

• Register FREE as a user of the site
• How can I join ACAT?
• Who's who? Contact ACAT
• Reformulation – the journal of the Association - access to past copies
• Media information
• Policies and official documents, including ACAT's Privacy Policy
• International CAT

Training in CAT - overview

• How to get started
• Introduction to CAT and bespoke courses
• CAT Skills
• Practitioner training and MSc in CAT
• Psychotherapy Training
• Supervision Training

Research - projects and evidence

• Current Research
• Research Awaiting Publication
• Recently Published Research
• Research Archives
• Key References to Research in CAT
• Support for CAT Research
• CAT Research and Communication Committee

ACAT events and CPD

• Conferences - national and international
• Calendar of all events
• ACAT CPD events

Tweets by Assoc_CAT

Petition to NHS England - The Case for Funding Training in the NHS 2021

News from ACAT

ACAT Website Gets Mobile-Friendly Last week ACAT's website was updated to use a "responsive" design framework. This means it now works properly on mobile devices and tablets as well as on laptops and desktop computers....

Click to read all news

Our Next 9 Events

24th June 2021
ACAT: Two Day Introduction to CAT - Online

14th July 2021
Working with the Voice in Therapy - offered by Steve Potter, Map and Talk

14th October 2021
ACAT: Two Day Introduction to CAT - Online

14th December 2021
An Introduction to Cognitive Analytic Therapy - offered by Sussex Partnership NHS Trust

1st January 2022
Catalyse CAT Practitioner Training 2022-2024

4th January 2022
Brighton CAT Practitioner Training

4th March 2022
CAT and EMDR - offered by Sussex Partnership NHS FT

23rd March 2022
ACAT: Trainers and Supervisors Meeting

26th May 2022
26th ACAT National Conference 2022