Cognitive Analytic Therapy-informed Containment for Self-Harm (CATCH)

"The brief CAT-informed therapy will take place over two sessions. Session one will last around 90 minutes. In session one, we will discuss with the participant their experience of self-harm and begin to support them to make sense of patterns in their self-harming behaviour. This will be done by thinking about the events that come before or follow self-harm, as well as thoughts and emotions associated with self-harm; it will also be done by thinking about ways that the participant relates to him/herself and other people. By the end of the first session, the researcher and the participant will have collaboratively developed a written diagram which shows patterns in the participant's self-harm.~Session two will involve revisiting the mapping of patterns. The researcher and participant will the collaboratively develop 'exits' or ways to break patterns and cycles of thinking, feeling and behaviour. Both sessions will have structured endings."