TY - JOUR
T1 - Skill Acquisition During Transdiagnostic Treatment With the Unified Protocol
AU - Sauer-Zavala, Shannon
AU - Rosellini, Anthony J.
AU - Bentley, Kate H.
AU - Ametaj, Amantia A.
AU - Boswell, James F.
AU - Cassiello-Robbins, Clair
AU - Wilner Tirpak, Julianne
AU - Farchione, Todd J.
AU - Barlow, David H.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021
PY - 2021/11
Y1 - 2021/11
N2 - The Unified Protocol (UP) for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders is an emotion-focused, cognitive-behavioral intervention developed to address the full range of anxiety, depressive, and related disorders. The UP consists of core therapeutic skills that, though unique in focus, are each designed to promote an approach-oriented stance toward emotional experiences. The goal of the present investigation was to characterize changes in these skills for patients that received a course of treatment with the UP, as well as to examine associations between skills and symptoms changes. Patients with principal anxiety disorders, assigned to receive treatment with the UP (N = 88) as part of a randomized controlled trial, were included in this study. They completed validated self-report measures of UP skills (Understanding Emotions, Mindful Emotion Awareness, Cognitive Flexibility, Countering Emotional Behaviors, and Interoceptive Awareness and Tolerance), as well as clinician-rated measures of psychological symptoms. Skill measures improved significantly over the course of 12 to 16 UP treatment sessions and changes in these skills measures were associated with improvements in anxiety symptoms. Determining whether improvement on all the skills learned during a course of treatment with UP is associated with symptom remission is critical to establishing the most streamlined and efficient interventions that may ultimately be best suited to widespread dissemination.
AB - The Unified Protocol (UP) for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders is an emotion-focused, cognitive-behavioral intervention developed to address the full range of anxiety, depressive, and related disorders. The UP consists of core therapeutic skills that, though unique in focus, are each designed to promote an approach-oriented stance toward emotional experiences. The goal of the present investigation was to characterize changes in these skills for patients that received a course of treatment with the UP, as well as to examine associations between skills and symptoms changes. Patients with principal anxiety disorders, assigned to receive treatment with the UP (N = 88) as part of a randomized controlled trial, were included in this study. They completed validated self-report measures of UP skills (Understanding Emotions, Mindful Emotion Awareness, Cognitive Flexibility, Countering Emotional Behaviors, and Interoceptive Awareness and Tolerance), as well as clinician-rated measures of psychological symptoms. Skill measures improved significantly over the course of 12 to 16 UP treatment sessions and changes in these skills measures were associated with improvements in anxiety symptoms. Determining whether improvement on all the skills learned during a course of treatment with UP is associated with symptom remission is critical to establishing the most streamlined and efficient interventions that may ultimately be best suited to widespread dissemination.
KW - Unified Protocol
KW - cognitive-behavioral therapy
KW - skills
KW - transdiagnostic
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U2 - 10.1016/j.beth.2021.03.001
DO - 10.1016/j.beth.2021.03.001
M3 - Article
C2 - 34656189
AN - SCOPUS:85116967835
SN - 0005-7894
VL - 52
SP - 1325
EP - 1338
JO - Behavior Therapy
JF - Behavior Therapy
IS - 6
ER -