Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Adolescents:
Workbook (UP-A) provides evidence-based treatment strategies to assist adolescent
clients to function better in their lives. This treatment is designed for adolescents
who are experiencing feelings of sadness, anxiety, worry, anger, or other emotions
that get in the way of their ability to enjoy their lives and feel successful. The
workbook is written for adolescents and guides them through each week of the program
with education, activities, and examples that will help them to understand the role
that emotions play in their behaviors every day. Adolescents are taught helpful strategies
for dealing with uncomfortable emotions and will receive support in making choices
that will move them closer to their long-term goals. The evidence-based treatment
skills presented in the accompanying Therapist Guide may be applied by the therapist
to adolescents with a wide variety of emotional disorders. The UP-A takes a transdiagnostic
approach to the treatment of the emotional disorders. Some of the disorders that may
be targeted include anxiety disorders (e.g., generalized anxiety disorder, social
anxiety disorder, separation anxiety disorder, specific phobias, panic disorder, illness
anxiety disorder, agoraphobia) and depressive disorders (e.g., persistent depressive
disorder, major depressive disorder). This treatment is flexible enough for use with
some trauma and stress-related disorders (including adjustment disorders), somatic
symptom disorders, tic disorders, and obsessive-compulsive disorders. The transdiagnostic
presentation of evidence-based intervention techniques within these treatments may
be particularly useful for adolescents presenting with multiple emotional disorders
or mixed/subclinical symptoms of several emotional disorders.