New Two Day Introduction to Using principles from Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) 20th February 2014 to 21st February 2014 Liverpool
New introductory Training in principles of Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) which can also be provided ‘in-house’ for your service
Dr Karen Shannon and Dr Marisol Cavieres are pleased to announce details of their
Two day introduction to Using a Cognitive Analytic Perspective: drawing on the principles of Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT)
To enhance your role in working in Health, Social Care, Schools, Probation & Prison Settings.
Thursday, 20th February and Friday, 21st February 2014 – 09.30 to 16.30
Venue: Liverpool
Fee: £220 (online booking) / £230 (if invoicing requested or paying by cheque)
This course is for individuals or teams who work with clients experiencing distress & mental health difficulties in a variety of roles whose primary role is not the provision of psychological therapy.
Including (but not limited to):
Team or Service Management; Care-Coordination; Risk Assessment and Management; Support and Monitoring individuals & Families; Responsible Clinician and Approved Mental Health Roles
This participative workshop will introduce key Cogntive Analytic concepts and their application to non-therapy work including assessment, case formulation, care planning and management and risk assessment and management.
Participants will be introduced to Cognitive Analytic concepts as a shared tool to aid recognition and revision of damaging relational patterns which repeat in restrictive, unhelpful and at times extreme and damaging (e.g. aggression/rejection towards others, forms of self-harm/neglect). On this skills-based course this repetition will be understood within the client-worker relationship and other relationships, including with themselves (self-care), in multi-professional teams and understanding and monitoring risk. CAT’s understanding is that, unless revised, these internalised experiences are repeatedly re-enacted in current patterns of relating with self and others.
Particpants will, through learning to draw out these repeating patterns and their relational origins, gain a Cognitive Analytic perspective that clearly describes and makes sense of these patterns, and what keeps clients and professionals stuck. Through shared recognition of these patterns (which manifest as thoughts, behaviours, emotions and symptoms) improved management and change is possible.
This rich understanding will enhance clinical conceptualisations by offering participants a framework in which to make sense of and
- help predict issues associated with poor motivation and engagement
- work with termination or discharge
- understand the at times difficult and anxiety provoking client dynamics “in the room”
- describe potential ruptures in the working relationship with hard-to-help clients and effects on teams and services, which unaddressed can result in stress within staff teams and rising economic costs to services
This two day introductory course will provide a relational understanding of your clients to enhance your usual role and practice, in the context of your everyday work.
Who is this workshop for?
Participants will be employed in Health, Social Care, Probation and Prison Settings, and have some familiarity with psychological approaches and interest in and aptitude for interpersonal and relational approaches.
- For those working within a team or ward based setting who are not providing therapy as part of their role
- Participants can attend individually or as a group of colleagues. Elements of, or the entire course can be adapted and tailor made for in-house training
The course serves as a good foundation for developing some clinical skills and development of skills in reflective practice in teams.
What will I learn from the course?
An introduction to using Cognitive Analytic principles, concepts, and tools to provide a psychological and relational framework to think about and conceptualise clinical work in the following areas:
- Establishing a therapeutic alliance (establishing and maintaining relations)
- Negotiating and maintaining appropriate boundaries and contracts
- Assessment and formulation (working together to finding a focus and put it in a wider context); making sense of people’s histories to aid in formulation
- Use of self to make sense of the transference and counter transference
- Management and containment
- Relational interventions/exits for direct and non-direct client work
- Transitions and endings
- Space to reflect and develop more of an observer perspective to your client work, and own responses (with clients, teams and system)
- Reflection on ourselves in relation to our work
- Understanding of the wider system and responses
- raise awareness of relational perspective in care planning, case management and risk assessment and management
Course Trainers:
Dr Karen Shannon and Dr Marisol Cavieres, Clinical Psychologists and CAT Practitioners, have been teaching CAT for many years in the UK and abroad
Booking:
• book and pay by personal credit or debit card online instantly through the ACAT web site Click here
• by email, attaching the booking form, to: maria.cross@acat.me.uk
• by post, enclosing the booking form and a cheque, to: ACAT, PO Box 6793, Dorchester DT1 9DL
Booking Enquiries only:
• Email: maria.cross@acat.me.uk
• Telephone: 0844 800 9496
NB LUNCH IS NOT INCLUDED ON EITHER DAY
Cancellations / Refund Policy: A refund, less a £25 administration fee, will be made if cancellations are received, in writing, at least four weeks before the event. We regret that any cancellation after this time cannot be refunded, and refunds for failure to attend the event cannot be made.
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Booking
You can book this event online if you are registered or logged into this site.Click here to register or log.
Cost
Fee: £220 (online) / £230 (if paying by cheque or invoicing requested)