Beginner’s Guide to Cognitive Analytic Therapy

<p>This text provides an accessible reader-friendly guide to conducting Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) on a one-to-one basis developed in partnership with service users who have lived experience of CAT.</p><p>The book will cover the applications of CAT in clinical practice including: assessment; introducing CAT; the main concepts and how to build a therapeutic relationship; mapping; the middle phase and the integration of other models; monitoring; developing exits; the ending and saying goodbye. Grounded in CAT theory the content will be ordered sequentially as one would conduct the therapy and will feature first-hand accounts from CAT-experienced service users including their own perspectives on the model and the impact it had on their wellbeing.</p><p>A straightforward beginner’s introduction to practicing CAT this book will be useful for trainee practitioners assistant and trainee clinical/counselling psychologists and those practising CAT-informed therapy in supervision.</p>