Professional Short Courses in Addictions Counselling
The Centre for Addiction Treatment Studies (CATS), based in Warminster, Wiltshire, offers a wide range of professional courses to arm you with the skills you need to become a well-trained counsellor working in the addictions treatment field.
Course and fee information is provided on the CATS website and further information can be provided by calling 01985 843780.
Apply for a course by clicking on the links in the colmun on the right.
Programme for 2013/14
- Interpersonal Group Therapy: 19 - 23 August 2013
- Working with Addiction: challenges, supervision and self care: 11/12 September 2013 and 9/10 October 2013
- Alcohol and Durg Problems and Societal Responses: 9 - 13 September 2013
- Counselling Skills in an Addictions Context: 30 September - 4 October 2013 and 21 - 25 October 2013
- Treatment and Counselling Approaches and Models of Recovery: 4 - 8 November 2013
- Developing Motivational Interviewing: 11 -14 November 2014 (Please note this unit is only open to students who have completed Motivational Interviewing at level C)
- Diversity Issues in Addictions Treatment: 19 - 21 November 2013
- Introduction to Assessment: 6 - 10 January 2014
- Addiction: A Family Perspective: 15/16 January 2014, 12/13 February 2014, 12/13 March 2014 and 9/10 April 2014
- Introduction to Treatment Planning: 27 - 30 January 2014
- Cognitive Therapy and Substance Use: 10 - 14 February 2014 (Applications will open shortly)
- Motivational Interviewing: 17 - 21 February 2014
- Relapse Prevention: 24 - 28 March 2014 (Applications will open shortly)
- Interpersonal Group Therapy: 31 March - 4 April 2014
- Dual Diagnosis: 15 - 17 April 2014 (Applications will open shortly)
- Families Living Dangerously: addiction, dual diagnosis and domestic abuse: 14/15 May 2014 and 11/12 June 2014
- Performance Management: 7 - 8 July 2014
- Interpersonal Group Therapy: 14 - 18 July 2014
- Meeting Stakeholder and Quality Requirements: 21 - 22 July 2014
- Managing Recruitment and Selection: 24 - 25 July 2014
- Motivational Interviewing: 28 July - 1 August 2014