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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.

Abstract: In recent years a growing body of evidence has led some researchers to hypothesize that eating disorders (EDs) are best conceptualized as a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). This recent research highlights the functional, phenomenological, and neurobiological similarities between the two disorders as well as high levels of co-occurrence, patterns of familial transmission, and selective response to pharmacologic and behavioral treatments. However, few studies have compared EDs and OCD directly. This investigation sought to expand upon previous research by exploring temperament and neuropsychological variables, which may influence the phenomenology of these disorders and investigating whether those variables may represent a common underlying vulnerability. Three groups of approximately 20 women were recruited: an ED group, an OCD group, and a healthy control group. All participants were diagnosed using a semi-structured interview. They completed several self-report questionnaires as well as a battery of neuropsychological tests designed to assess inhibition, cognitive flexibility, decision-making and learning. The results suggest several temperamental similarities between ED and OCD groups including heightened levels of harm avoidance, attentional impulsivity, perfectionism, and emotional avoidance compared to controls. While there were notable similarities between the two clinical groups there were also differences. The ED group reported greater levels of body checking than the OCD group and while overall perfectionism was similar, the ED group evidenced greater concern over mistakes whereas the OCD group reported greater doubts about actions. Several neuropsychological similarities were also found between the two clinical groups, including comparable performance on tasks of response inhibition, cognitive flexibility, and verbal learning. While the ED group evidenced less advantageous decision-making compared to the OCD group, multivariate models including both temperament and decision-making indicated that temperament, but not decision-making, differentiated the two clinical groups. Overall, these results suggest important similarities in temperament and neuropsychological functioning between EDs and OCD, potentially reflecting a common underlying vulnerability. Findings also point to a few specific differences in personality and symptom expression, in addition to definitional Axis I symptoms, which elucidate important distinctions between these two groups.

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.

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.

This patient workbook 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. It covers the Unified Protocol (UP), which capitalises on the contributions made by cognitive-behavioural 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.

This book combines New Testament studies and cultural theory, and analyzes Acts of the Apostles as a product of imperial discourse. In five chapters, Christina Petterson engages Acts with ideology, gender, class, and empire with different emphases. All of these analyses argue that Christianity can never be set outside discourses of exploitation, discrimination, and hierarchies, but must always be set within them.

Los programas de tratamiento basados en la evidencia más recientes, fundamentados en la investigación más actual y la evaluación clínica, se centran en las intervenciones unificadas transdiagnósticas para trastornos que comparten características comunes y responden a procedimientos terapéuticos comunes. Este Manual está diseñado para abordar los trastornos emocionales: ansiedad, estado de ánimo, pánico, fobia social, ansiedad generalizada, estrés postraumático, trastorno obsesivo-compulsivo y depresión. El programa también está diseñado para el tratamiento de «trastornos emocionales» estrechamente relacionados, como la hipocondría y otras alteraciones asociadas con la ansiedad excesiva relacionada con problemas de salud, así como problemas en los que la persona experimenta disociación (sensación de irrealidad).