Working relationally with young people : a cognitive analytic approach to connecting one to one, with families and across communities / edited by Nick Barnes and Lee Crothers.

Introduction
Chapter 1: Being with and belonging – an introduction to a relational approach to working with young people
Lee Crothers and Nick Barnes

PART 1: Relational approaches to working alongside young people

Chapter 2: ‘If all you ever see is an eating disorder…’ A relational understanding and approach to working with young people with eating disorders
Lee Crothers and Melissa Keller-Tuberg

Chapter 3: Using CAT for neurodivergent young people – working with intellectual disability and autism
Jo Varela

Chapter 4: Relational practice is inclusive practice – working alongside LGBTQA+ young people
Victoria Ryall

Chapter 5: The power of an embodied approach to CAT with young adults
Caroline Greenwood Dower

Chapter 6: A relationally informed model of care for young people living with personality disorder
Louise K. McCutcheon, Jessica O’Connell, Ben McKechnie and Andrew M. Chanen

Case Study 1: Being on both sides – reflections by a young person with lived experience of being diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder
Brede

PART 2: Relational approaches to working with parents, families and groups

Chapter 7: A house of mirrors – a role for parent CAT
Clare Young

Chapter 8: Bringing CAT into the family and beyond – a systemic approach to CAT when working alongside families and their wider networks
Debbra Mortlock

Chapter 9: Using CAT – a relational approach in groups with young people
Cat McKenzie

Case Study 2: ‘A Game of Two Halves’ – CAT in the world of football
Nick Barnes

PART 3: Relational approaches to service provision and the workplace

Chapter 10: Relationships matter – a case for CAT in an Early Intervention Service
Wendy Giovanelli and Kiara Wickremasinghe

Chapter 11: Creating ‘just enough’ space – setting up a new psychotherapy service in Chennai
Sivakami Suresh Prabalkumari

Chapter 12: Can you even relate? Invitations to think and work relationally in Out of Home Care
Katherine Monson and Kiera Kauler

Chapter 13: Burning out and bullying – the need for working relationally within the workplace
Nick Barnes and Lee Crothers

Chapter 14: CAT in education – reflections on the spaces between the ‘cogs in the machine’
Claire Regan and Leah O’Toole

Case study 3: Excluded, disengaged and on the outside – reconnecting through ‘Learning to Learn’
Donna Lockett

PART 4: Relational approaches to communities and society

Chapter 15: From Hellblade to Game Group – relating and connecting in digital spaces
Alex Bretherton and Nick Barnes

Chapter 16: Dear Planet Earth – the climate and ecological emergency through a relational lens
Angie Phong, Reem Ramadan and Nick Barnes

Chapter 17: Dancing in the spaces between – reflections on proximity and power when working alongside communities
Nick Barnes and Rhona Brown

Case Study 4: Shifting the gaze – creativity for Recovery and Emotional Well-being (CREW)
Nick Barnes and Jon Hall

Conclusion

Chapter 18: Closing thoughts – common threads
Nick Barnes and Lee Crothers

References
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This book explores the growing interest in and demand for relational mental health support for young people, parents, families and communities. Relational approaches place an emphasis on authentic and mutual connections; the therapist is not an aloof ‘expert’, but an engaged human being who is an active part of the process, and who draws on subjective experiences and passions in the service of the client. Through eighteen contributed chapters and four short case studies, Working Relationally with Young People explores the theory, practice and delivery of Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) and its relational mindset in youth mental health and wellbeing, and makes the case for prioritising a relational way of working across all services and support for young people – whether they be within children and young people’s mental health, or in other contexts such as education, social care or youth work.