Cognitive analytic therapy is a time-limited psychotherapy (normally 16 to 24 sessions) which integrates theories derived from cognitive psychology, psychoanalytic psychotherapy (mainly object relations), and ideas derived from Vygotsky and Bakhtin(dialogic).

It is an integrative model that helps us to understand the links between the relational patterns from the past and present, and how this affects our everyday life.

Understanding the development of personality, and that aspects of personality are socially constructed, is central to CAT. The tools of therapy, including the reformulation letter, psychotherapy file, procedural diagrams and the dialogic sequence analysis, are particularly helpful in conceptualising and managing complex presentations within a relational framework.
CAT is a relational model that was developed within the NHS in the UK to meet the rising pressures and demands of the services and patients. It involves developing an active collaborative therapeutic relationship with the patient and is particularly applicable to work in NHS and mental health settings.

CAT is now used in many countries across the world to treat with patients with complex presentations both in the inpatients(acute) and outpatients’ settings including community mental health teams and third sector organisations. CAT is transdiagnostic and can also be used in contextual, team formulations, consultations and group work.

The course will be taught in three modules:

•  CAT as Therapeutic Model
•  Theories and Tools that Underpin the model

• Relational Focus and Alliance
• Organizational, Societal, Individual including inequalities.
• Specific Presentations in CAT

•  Complex Presentations
•  Boundaries and Framework
•  Endings and Self-Care

• To gain a shared language for inter-professional work based upon CAT’s integrative and dialogic approach to cognitive and relational processes.
• To demonstrate continued utilisation and sharing of the CAT formulation tools in team meetings, handovers and contexts, as well as during daily work and as part of a care co ordinator role.
• Using CAT skills to develop reflective practice.
• Apply the psychological thinking and relational skills and produce CAT formulations for the patients and deliver CAT informed therapy under their existing professional role.

Lectures, Joint mapping, clinical exercises, ie. completing the Psychotherapy File and case discussions.

• 1 case study (2000 words).
• 1 reflective essay (2000 words).

• Successful completion of the written course work.
• Two cases under supervision with a satisfactory appraisal from the supervisor.
• Certificates will only be given to those participants who achieve a minimum of 85% attendance.

The trainees will need to abide by the ethical practices and  guidelines linked to their existing professional roles and affiliations.

Core professional training in one of the health care professions – Nursing, Medicine, Psychologists, Psychologist Practitioners, Trainee Psychologists, Psychotherapy, Counselling, Occupational Therapy, Social work.

• Jessie Emilion (UKCP registered Psychotherapist, ACAT accredited Supervisor and CAT Trainer).
• Deborah Russel Carroll ( PSI registered Psychologist, Ireland CAT accredited Supervisor and CAT trainer).
• Dupe Adu-White (NHS registered Mental Health Nurse, CAT psychotherapist, ACAT accredited Supervisor, and CAT trainer).

Deborah Russell-Carroll is a Clinical Psychologist, accredited CAT psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer. She has worked in the Irish healthcare system for thirty years and is currently employed as the Principal Psychologist Manager in the Dublin South Central area of the Health Service Executive (HSE) in Ireland. She is the current chair of the Accreditation Committee of the International CAT Association (ICATA) and ex-chair of the Irish Association for CAT (ICAT). She has a particular interest in the dialogical self and her doctorate in psychology focused on the dialogical relational patterns inherent in the area of abuse and trauma.

Jessie Emilion is a BACP accredited Counsellor and UKCP registered CAT psychotherapist and supervisor. She has been working in the NHS for the last 20 years in various capacities as a Clinical Lead, Trainer, Manager and Supervisor. She is currently employed by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust as the Cognitive Analytic Psychotherapy Lead at the Munro Centre within a Secondary Care Psychological Therapies Service. As a former Head of Counselling and Diversity Lead within Lewisham Psychological Therapies, NHS she has a particular interest in bi-lingualism, race, language and culture, with extensive experience of working with refugee communities.

Dupe Adu-White has worked within the NHS as a registered mental health nurse for over 20 years and has been practising as a CAT practitioner / accredited CAT psychotherapist for over 16 years. She is an accredited CAT supervisor and also the ACAT Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion committee (EDIC) Chairperson. Most of her experience has involved working in senior roles within specialist areas such as eating disorders; community mental health services; personality disorder services; working psychologically with long-term conditions (LTC); and psychiatric forensic services. This has allowed her to work collaboratively with a wide range of diverse groups; gain a wealth of knowledge, experience and skills in assessing risk; formulating care plans which offer a mode of treatment; developing services; and being a positive role model for working with a variety of complex conditions. as well as gain extensive experience of managing and supervising a diverse range of staff.

Certificate in ‘CAT Skills Training’.

Richmond Foundation Training Centre, Qormi. Address MCE House Triq L-Industrija Qormi.

Early Bird  €650 till 15th August

€750 after 15th August

For more information email us on training@richmond.org.mt