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Its a counselling method

2006-10-04 04:58:08 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science Psychology

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Cognitive Analytic Therapy involves a therapist and a client working together, by looking at what has hindered changes in the past, in order to understand better how to move forward in the present. Questions like, “Why do I always end up feeling like this?” become more answerable.

Who is it for?
CAT is safe and ‘user friendly’, being widely applicable within a variety of settings, and across a range of disorders and difficulties - such as depression, anxiety, personal and relationship problems.

Why now?
People often wish they could change things to make life more manageable, but don’t know where to start. Unhappiness, depression or anxiety can make them feel less capable of finding a way out of their difficulties. Help is needed.

How does it work?
CAT focuses its attention on discovering how problems have evolved and how the procedures devised to cope with them may be ineffective. It is designed to enable clients to gain an understanding of how the difficulties they experience may be made worse by their habitual coping mechanisms. Problems are understood in the light of clients’ personal histories and life experiences. The focus is on recognising how these coping procedures originated and how they can be adapted and improved. Then, mobilising the clients’ own strengths and resources, plans are developed to bring about change.

The work is active and shared. Diagrams and written outlines are worked out together to help recognise, challenge and revise old patterns that do not work well. Agreed insights are noted in documents, which become tools for use within, outside and beyond the duration of therapy.

In this way, clients gain skills to help them manage their lives more successfully and to continue using after therapy ends

2006-10-04 05:02:59 · answer #1 · answered by robert d 4 · 4 0

Analytical?

What do you need to know about it?

2006-10-04 12:03:22 · answer #2 · answered by Christine H 7 · 0 0

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