A Beginners Guide to Cognitive Analytic Therapy: Practitioner and Service User [Hardcover]

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.

1. The introduction  2. Service user perspectives  3. Principles of Cognitive Analytic Therapy  4. Who is Cognitive Analytic Therapy for?  5. Setting the scene  6. Cognitive Analytic Therapy assessment tools  7. Cognitive Analytic Therapy assessment  8. The reformulation letter  9. Mapping  10. Monitoring  11. The middle phase  12. Exits and doing something different  13. Saying goodbye  14. Time for review  15. The challenges of Cognitive Analytic Therapy  16. Author and service user reflections

  

 

 

This excellent volume offers an invaluable and overdue addition to the CAT literature. Its clear focus and description of the key features of the model as used in front line clinical work along with its focus on lived experience of the approach from both practitioners and, importantly, service users is engaging and inspiring. The prominent voice of service users , who give personal accounts of therapy in the context of their overall journey, is illuminating, brave, and moving and is an especially helpful and relevant feature of the book. They also exemplify and illustrate the genuinely collaborative nature of the CAT approach. The book will undoubtedly be of considerable usefulness not only to CAT trainees and practitioners but to many others, including potentially those who might engage with CAT (clients, patients, service users), and potentially beyond to anyone concernedlS(