Sarah Cluley
Children being taken into care inevitably involves difficult personal and systemic relationships. CAT along with parenting classes is frequently recommended by professionals asked to provide reports for court. I will consider conflict, between parents and ‘the system’, between myself and ‘the system’ and conflicts within myself provoked by doing this work. I will update data presented at a similar workshop in previous ICATA conference but the main content will be looking at anonymised scenarios in an interactive format. I hope this workshop will encourage colleagues to take on some of these cases which are challenging but often rewarding.
My background is in psychiatry and I worked in the NHS predominantly in liaison psychiatry. I trained in CAT 1996-2000 and subsequently became a supervisor 2003. I have researched the use of CAT in people with poorly controlled asthma and poor self care and as a consultant in Hull I developed CAT skills training & supervision for the A&E self harm service. I now work independently as a CAT psychotherapist and supervisor in Leeds and have developed an interest in working with parents whose children are involved in care proceedings.
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