The Development of the Unified Protocol for the Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders: A Case Study.

A detailed description of treatment utilizing the Unified Protocol (UP), a transdiagnostic emotion-focused cognitive-behavioral treatment, is presented using a clinical case example treated during the most current phase of an ongoing randomized controlled trial of the UP. The implementation of the UP in its current, modular version is illustrated. A working case conceptualization is presented from the perspective of the UP drawing from theory and research that underlies current transdiagnostic approaches to treatment and consistent with recent dimensional classification proposals (Brown & Barlow, in press). Treatment is illustrated module-by-module describing how the principles of the UP were applied in the presented case.

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  2010

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  Cognitive and Behavioral Practice

• Publication date

  2010-02-01

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  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/J.CBPRA.2009.09.003PMID 23997572PMCID PMC3755773
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