Full Description
Emerging conceptualizations of major emotional disorders emphasize their commonalities rather than their differences, including considerable overlap in disorder phenomenology, a common set of vulnerabilities to development of emotional disorders, and generalization of treatment response across disorders. Current research lends support for a unified transdiagnostic approach to treatment of these disorders that considers these commonalities and is applicable to a range
of emotional disorders.
Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders, part of the TreatmentsThatWork series of therapist manuals and patient workbooks, is a radical departure from disorder-specific treatments of various emotional disorders, and is designed to be applicable to all anxiety and unipolar mood disorders, as well as other disorders with strong emotional components, such as many somatoform and dissociative disorders. The Unified Protocol (UP) capitalizes on the contributions
made by cognitive-behavioral theorists by distilling and incorporating the common principles of CBT present in all evidenced based protocols for specific emotional disorders, as well as drawing on the field of emotion science for insights into deficits in emotion regulation. The UP contains seven modules and
focuses on four core strategies: becoming mindfully aware of emotional experience; reappraising rigid emotion laden attributions; identifying and preventing behavioral and emotional avoidance; and facilatating exposure to both interoceptive and situational cues associated with emotional experiences. Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders will be an essential resource for all therapists and psychiatrists who implement CBT strategies, as well as any
clinician treating anxiety and depressive disorders.
Contents
Chapter 1 What are Emotional Disorders?
Chapter 2 Is This Treatment Right for You?
Chapter 3 Learning to Record Your Experiences
Chapter 4 Maintaining Motivation and Setting Goals for Treatment
Chapter 5 Understanding Your Emotions
Chapter 6 Recognizing and Tracking Your Emotional Responses
Chapter 7 Learning to Observe Your Emotions and Your Reactions to Your Emotions
Chapter 8 Understanding Thoughts: Thinking the Worst and Overestimating the Risk
Chapter 9 Understanding Behaviors 1: Avoiding Your Emotions
Chapter 10 Understanding Behaviors 2: Emotion-driven Behaviors
Chapter 11 Understanding and Confronting Physical Sensations
Chapter 12 Putting it into Practice: Facing Your Emotions in the Situations in which they Occur
Chapter 13 Medications for Anxiety, Depression, and Related Emotional Disorders
Chapter 14 Moving on From Here: Recognizing Your Accomplishments and Looking to Your Future
Appendix Self-Assessment Answers
