It brought together CAT therapists, trainees and other interested people to consider how we can better embed thinking around inequality into CAT training, supervision and practice. A range of speakers presented on theory and practice examples where CAT is used as a framework for understanding and responding to inequalities, across diverse settings and communities.
The day included thinking space and discussion to help participants consider how to embed these issues in their own practice, training or supervisory contexts. It included reference to chapters in Julie Lloyd & Rachel Pollard (eds) publication "Cognitive Analytic Therapy and the Politics of Mental Health".
It took place in The Abbey Centre, 34 Great Smith St, London, SW1P 3BU
This day was offered to qualified and trainee CAT practitioners, CAT psychotherapists, therapists from other backgrounds and any others interested in how Cognitive Analytic Therapy approaches can respond to inequality and diversity.
| 9.30 | Welcome and Introduction | Dupe Adu White - Chair of ACAT's Equality & Diversity Committee, and Alison Jenaway - Chair of ACAT |
| 9.40 | Consciously Creating Thinking Space for Social Justice in CAT Training | Anne Benson, CAT Psychotherapist |
| 10.25 | 3D Reciprocal Roles : Acknowledging Inequality Out There and In Here | Hilary Brown, CAT Psychotherapist |
| 11.10 | Break | |
| 11.25 | Structural Inequalities Within Services for People with Learning Disability | Tanya Pearson, CAT Practitioner, Phil Clayton ,CAT Psychotherapist, and Kieron Beard, Clinical Psychologist |
| 12.10 | Lunch | |
| 1.00 | A CAT Informed Approach To Working Alongside Young People Affected By Violence | Nick Barnes - CAT Practitioner |
| 13.45 | Using CAT to Work With Cultural Difference in Non-Western Settings | Nargis Islam - CAT Practitioner |
| 14.45 | Discovering Dialogue in Diversity | Lawrence Welch - CAT Psychotherapist |
| 15.30 | Thinking Space | Facilitated by Anne Benson and Lawrence Welch |
| 16.15 | Summary and close of CPD day |
