We describe a new Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT)-based intervention for those who repeatedly self-harm. It is specifically designed to be deliverable by staff with no training in psychotherapy. The intervention is simply manualized into sequential tasks that are mediated by new CAT-style standardized tools. A particular feature of this intervention is the deliberate use of feelings elicited in the therapist ('counter-transference') as (a) a guide to how professional poise is being threatened or lost and (b) an indicator of the appropriate focus for this very brief therapy. The psychiatrists' reflection on their elicited feelings is mediated by a new CAT tool, the 'Assessor's Response File' developed in this project. Audiotape analysis suggested that following a very brief learning period, trainee psychiatrists were able to adhere to the structure of the model and arrive at an appropriate reformulation in the first session but tended to be collusive in reciprocating the patients' dysfunctional coping styles.
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