Fellow’s Profile
Cat Taylor
Fellow’s Profile
Cat Taylor
Secure base not care-cliff: Why attachment matters
Fellowship
Themes
Focus
Improving psychological support for care experienced people.
Countries
Fellowship year
2024
Supported by
Locality
North East
Biography
I am a psychological therapist and occupational therapist specialising in working with individuals who have experienced developmental trauma and loss. The focus of my Fellowship is on care leavers' experience of transitions and endings and how psychological support around this can be improved. This cause holds deep professional and personal significance to me.
I am passionate about researching and embedding an attachment and trauma informed understanding and approach within the UK care system. With the help of the Fellowship, I will be travelling to the USA and Australia to learn directly from individuals with lived experience and the organisations supporting them.
As a result, I hope to develop a training programme for care experienced people and professionals working in the field, with a focus on attachment and developmental trauma. A specific goal will be to instil the importance of thoughtful transitions and endings and to support care leavers in understanding and coping with their experience of ending.
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Disclaimer
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.