ABSTRACT
The cognitive analytic approach offers a remarkably powerful and versatile set of relational concepts and tools for providing supervision and consultancy to individuals and groups. As well as an effective approach to therapy and clinical supervision, CAT is now also used to provide consultancy to teams and services (see Chapter 16 , also Carradice 2012, Elford and Ball 2014) and has also moved beyond the health and forensic fi elds to include applications to business management and executive coaching. CAT offers a fundamentally relational and dynamic view of how people and social systems work and this, along with its tools for mapping and sharing formulations, makes the approach particularly well suited for supervision and consultation across a broad range of services. CAT’s emphasis on collaborative working, transparency, and fl exibility in the way that the tools can be applied, also makes it a useful approach when supervising professionals who have not received specifi c training in the model.
