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What is the Children's Accelerated Trauma Technique?
CATT is a special type of creative therapy for young people with PTSD or Complex-PTSD.
It uses creative methods, CBT techniques and trauma-informed interventions to help children and adolescents heal from their traumatic event(s). CATT was developed specifically for young people with PTSD/CPTSD. It's adaptable to every child's specific needs and gives them the tools they need to move forward.
CATT can be a short-term intervention of approximately 12 sessions, or it can be longer-term at 18-24 sessions. The number of sessions will be unique to each young person.
To be a suitable for CATT, the young person must either already have a diagnosis of PTSD/CPTSD, or meet the criteria using the CRIES scale (which I will administer at assessment). If the young person does not meet the criteria for CATT, I may suggest seeing them for creative therapy without using CATT.
You can find out more about CATT by visiting https://traumapsychology.co.uk/.
Thinking about CATT for a child or young person?
The 12 Steps of CATT
1. Ensuring a comfortable setting
2. Creating a sense of safety
3. Working with parents, teachers and others around the child
4. Teaching the child about the brain and trauma
5. Deciding with the child what they would like to change
6.Assessing overall needs of the child
7.Agreeing and setting goals
8. Processing traumatic memories
9. Rescripting traumatic memories
10.Rehearsing with the processed/rescripted memories
11.Checking for changes
12. Review goals and needs
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