Yvonne J. Stevens is Senior Lecturer in CAT at the University of Exeter, where she is also Lead for CAT Accreditation, ACAT Exeter Foundation Course Director, and CAT Course Convenor for the DClinPsy program. She teaches creativity to trainees in CAT, psychology and psychiatry. Yvonne trained in CAT with Tony Ryle at St Thomas' Hospital from 1989-1995. She has been a CAT therapist, psychotherapy lecturer and training supervisor in the NHS for thirty years, and also works in private practice. She has a longstanding role as Associate Lecturer and assessor on the RCPsych Psychotherapy Module with the Peninsula Medical School. Yvonne's primary interest is in bringing creativity to psychotherapy, supervision and training. She has supervised, taught and assessed trainees throughout the southwest on all levels of CAT training courses, and she co-convenes an annual national residential training event for CAT trainers and supervisors.
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Foreword by Elizabeth Wilde McCormick Preface: Introduction Part 1: Mental health and the capacity to play 1. CAT, creativity and mental health (Yvonne Stevens) 2. The neurological benefits of novelty and play (Suzanne Lyons andYvonne Stevens) 3. The Zone of Playful Proximal Development (Paul Sullivan) Part 2: Creative psychotherapeutic models 4. Working with objects as a key to unlocking complex trauma (Suzanne Lyons) 5. Dramatherapy and playful relationality (Vicky Petratou) 6. Beyond your wildest dreams (Nicola Coulter and Sophie Rushbrook) 7. Enabling change with metaphor and imagery (James Turner) 8. Relational dialogues with the inner child (Louise Yorke) 9. Innovative approaches within a learning disability service (Sarah Nicholas and Col) 10. Neurodivergence and the Multiple Self States Model (James Randall) Part 3: Bringing our creative selves to therapy 11. Reflection as a creative process within supervision (Vicky Petratou) 12. Human development and the 'Seven Ages of Man'(Jason Hepple) 13. The roots and heart of Cognitive Analytic Music Therapy (Stella Compton Dickinson) 14. Training films for psychotherapeutic education (Kathryn Pemberton) 15. Bringing our stories to life through animation (Rhona Brown) 16. Well-being workshops for CAT therapists (Steve Potter with Annalee Curran and Elizabeth Wilde McCormick) Afterword (Yvonne Stevens)