Unified Protocol

Wise Mind AB
Unified Protocol
for the Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders
Tre utbildningsdagar med Shannon Sauer-Zavala, Ph. D.
SESIMBRA
1-4 juli 2014
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Workshop Description:
The proliferation of specific treatment manuals for specific disorders has created
unintended barriers for implementation and dissemination of evidence-based
psychological treatments (McHugh & Barlow, 2012). Research emerging from the
field of emotion science suggests that individuals suffering from anxiety and mood
disorders tend to experience negative affect more frequently and more intensely than
healthy individuals (Campbell-Sills & Barlow, 2007; Etkin & Wagner, 2007), and tend
to view these experiences as more aversive (Roemer, Salters, Raffa, & Orsillo, 2005).
Deficits in emotion regulation, emerging out of unsuccessful efforts to avoid or
dampen the intensity of uncomfortable emotions, have been found to cut across the
emotional disorders (Barlow, Allen, & Choate, 2004; Mennin, Heimberg, Turk, &
Fresco, 2005), and have become a core target for therapeutic change (Barlow, Allen, &
Choate, 2004). The Unified Protocol for the Treatment of Emotional Disorders (UP;
Barlow et al., 2011) is a recently developed transdiagnostic, emotion-focused
cognitive-behavioral treatment (CBT) that targets deficits in emotion regulation that
occur across the neurotic spectrum.
This workshop will first briefly review evidence supporting the development of such
transdiagnostic interventions. This will be followed by a description and
demonstration of how to apply core UP treatment modules, along with the
similarities and differences between the UP and traditional CBT for anxiety and
mood disorders. Audio and videotaped illustrations of core treatment interventions
(e.g., mindful awareness, emotion exposures) will be presented, along with detailed
case examples involving complex comorbidity. Attendees will be invited to
participate in exercises as part of these demonstrations.
Educational Objectives
Workshop attendees will learn:
(a) Participants will develop a unified, transdiagnostic case conceptualization for
patients presenting with comorbid emotional disorders.
(b) Participants will apply emotion-focused treatment concepts and strategies
(e.g., objective monitoring, emotional awareness training, cognitive
reappraisal, reduction of emotional avoidance and maladaptive emotion
driven behaviors) to patients presenting with comorbid emotional disorders.
(c) Participants will create effective and cohesive emotion exposures for patients
with depression and complex comorbidities.
About the Presenter
Shannon Sauer-Zavala, Director of Education and
Training for the Unified Protocol, Center for Anxiety
and Related Disorders at Boston University. Shannon
received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the
University of Kentucky and completed her internship
at Duke University Medical Center. Her research is
focused on exploring emotion-focused mechanisms
that maintain psychological symptoms and using this
information to develop more targeted, easilydisseminated intervention strategies. Clinically, she
enjoys working with patients with borderline
personality disorder and is currently pilot testing the
Unified Protocol with this population.
Preliminärt program, Workshop Unified Protocol, Sesimbra 1-4 juli 2014
Tisdag 1 juli
Kl 08.450-12.00
Background and development of the UP; research support for the
UP, conducting a functional assessment prior to treatment
Kl 16.00-19.00
UP Modules 1 and 2 (motivation enhancement and psychoeducation, respectively)
Onsdag 2 juli
Kl 08.45- 12.00
UP Modules 3 and 4 (mindfulness and cognitive restructuring)
Kl 16.00- 19.00
Modules 5 and 6 (countering emotional avoidance and
interoceptive exposures)
Torsdag 3 juli
Inläsning och förberedelser inför sista kursdagen den 4 juli
Fredag 4 juli
Kl 08.45- 12.00
Modules 7, and 8 (emotion exposures and relapse prevention)
Kl 16.00-19.00
UP case conceptualization, questions
Discussion of each module will include didactic teaching, small-group exercises, and
question/answer sessions about how to apply strategies to particular patients.
Rekommenderad kurslitteratur
David Barlow, m fl: Unified Protocol. Diagnosöverskridande psykologisk behandling.
Terapeutmanual. Natur och kultur 2013
David Barlow, m fl: Unified Protocol. Diagnosöverskridande psykologisk behandling.
Arbetsbok. Natur och kultur 2013
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