ICATA is a federation of national associations promoting training and supervision in the practice of CAT from Australia, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, India, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. ACAT is a member organisation of ICATA. We look forward to more countries joining in.
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ICATA also publishes The International Journal of Cognitive Analytic Therapy and Relational Mental Health (ISSN 2059-9919). Online articles and whole issues are free to download from the ICATA site and you can also purchase hard copies. Find out more at ICATA's web pages about the journal.
There is an executive made up of two delegates from each member country with established or newly developing training programmes in CAT. They meet bi-monthly through a telephone conference and annually in person.
Member countries host regular ICATA conferences. ACAT jointly hosted the last ICATA conference held in the UK, in Nottingham in 2017. You can download the programme for the 7th International CAT Conference here.
Contact one of the executive members via ICATA's contact page to establish links with a senior trainer. They can help with introductory training courses and offer guidance on how to set up supervision and further training, step by step to practitioner level and beyond. There are introductory training workshops in various parts of the world. Attending a training in a neighbouring country is also possible.
The senior trainer linked to a country will work with an initial group of trainees to help establish CAT. Where there are difficulties finding a senior trainer who is familiar with the language of a particular country, simultaneous translation has been shown to be a workable model of training in CAT. Once a group of qualified practitioners is being trained, a national association can be formed.
For more details generally about ICATA and the development of CAT internationally please go to: http://www.internationalcat.org
