The department supports these courses with the Association of Cognitive Analytic Therapy (ACAT); approved ACAT trainers deliver them, according to the quality standards, at various sites across England and Scotland; they are for: mental health nurses and social workers; therapists qualified in another field; clinical psychologists; medical practitioners; others in professional/psychological support services usually in the NHS; Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) is an integrated approach developed in the UK; first developed to treat neurotic disorders in outpatient settings, in recent years it has developed for work with more severely disturbed, personality disorder problems; it is suitable for people whose primary disturbances are in interpersonal relationships; like cognitive behaviour therapy, it can be used with people who lack the interest in self-exploration and the capacity to tolerate the frustration that may be important for success in psychoanalytic and psychodynamic therapies; it has been applied where there is some dissociation of different states of mind.
Skills Certificate modules: CAT and its theoretical integration; CAT principles of practice; CAT perspective/informed on case management skills; Postgraduate Diploma: Year 1: core CAT and its theoretical integration I: CAT�s model of the self and mental health; CAT principles of practice I: core concepts, skills, activities and tools; the therapeutic relationship I: alliance, transference/counter-transference; professional development: boundaries, roles, limits and endings; Year 2 modules: CAT and its theoretical integration II: implications for CAT theory and practice; CAT model of complex presentations; CAT principles of practice II: integrating techniques and relational therapy; specialist applications; the therapeutic relationship II: professional and personal development; MSc: research methods plus a dissertation; a research dissertation.
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Sep |
2 years |
Part-time | No application date provided |
Sheffield, S1 1WB |
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Taught
Sheffield Hallam University
Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, Cognitive Psychology, People With Mental Health Problems: Social Work

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