Unified Protocol
Director of Education & Training for the Unified Protocol with clinical demonstrations provided by advanced graduate students
Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders
648 Beacon Street, 6 th Floor
Boston, MA 02215
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). The Unified Protocol for the
Treatment of Emotional Disorders (UP; Barlow et al., 2011) is a recently developed transdiagnostic, emotion-focused cognitivebehavioral treatment (CBT) that targets core deficits occurring across the neurotic spectrum (e.g., anxiety, depressive, and related disorders). 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.
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. For more information, contact us at unifiedprotocolinstitute@gmail.com.
Educational Objectives
(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.
Intended Audience: Mental health professionals of varying degrees of experience and backgrounds who have some familiarity with cognitive-behavioral approaches for treating anxiety and mood disorders.
The Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Center for anxiety and Related Disorders maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
The Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders is a handicap accessible facility
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Unified Protocol for the Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders
March 13, 2015 $150.00 Professional Rate $75.00 Student Rate
(With copy of student ID)
To REGISTER, please send this completed form to:
Mail: Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, ATTN: Shannon Sauer-Zavala
648 Beacon Street 6 th Floor, Boston, MA 02215
Fax: 617-353-9609, ATTN: Shannon Sauer-Zavala
Space is Limited. Please Register by March 9, 2015
Cancellation & Refund Policy: Fee minus $30 administration fee for all cancellations made five (5) business days prior to the event. No refund for cancellations made less than five (5) business days prior to the event.
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Years of experience conducting psychotherapy (individual or group):
Which therapeutic orientations do you use in your treatment approach? Please check all that apply.
Cognitive
Behavioral
Psychodynamic
Humanistic
Supportive
Other
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Years of experience conducting psychotherapy specifically targeting anxiety disorders and depressive disorders:
Please indicate the percentage of patients with whom you use each of the following treatment elements:
Psycho-education
Self-Monitoring
Cognitive Restructuring
Situational Exposure Exercises
Interoceptive Exposure Exercises
Weekly Homework
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What percent of the time do you follow a specific treatment protocol (e.g. behavioral activation) or manualized treatment
(e.g., Mastery of your Anxiety and Panic)?
Please indicate the degree to which your treatment is usually adherent to a manualized treatment compared to being completely flexible (0 = I practice complete flexibility with no adherence to a manualized protocol; 100 = I follow manualized protocols exclusively and exactly)
Which protocol treatments or approaches do you have familiarity? Please select all that apply.
Mastery of Anxiety and Panic
Mastery of Social Anxiety
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
Mastery of Anxiety and Worry
Exposure and Response Prevention for OCD
Cognitive Processing Therapy
Prolonged Exposure
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Behavior Activation
Other protocol interventions with which you have familiarity:
Please list any treatment approaches or protocols on which you have sought additional training (e.g., attended a workshop, completed a certification program):
In which settings do you deliver treatment? Please check all that apply.
Adolescents
Adults
Older adults (65+)
Inpatient clinic
Partial inpatient clinic
Outpatient psychiatric facility (e.g., graduate training clinic, hospital, or VA clinic)
School clinic (e.g., undergraduate student health services)
Correctional facility
Private Practice
Other (please describe)
Which patients do you regularly treat? Please check all that apply.
Children
Please indicate the diagnoses you usually treat. Please check all that apply
Anxiety and related disorders (e.g., OCD, PTSD)
Depressive disorders
Eating disorders
Psychotic disorders
Personality disorders
Bipolar disorders
Substance use disorders
Couples
Families
Most of my patients do not have a clinical diagnosis
I typically do not assess or am not aware of my
patients' diagnoses
Other (please describe)
Please characterize the severity/impairment level of the patients you typically treat; check all that apply.
Absent to mild impairment/no clinical diagnosis
Mild to moderate impairment/clinical diagnosis but usually high functioning
Moderate impairment/clinical diagnosis and moderate functioning
Moderate to severe/clinical diagnosis and moderate to severe impairment
Severe/severe mental illness and/or severe impairment
Extremely severe/patient is unable to live independently due to symptoms
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Approximately how many sessions does your typical case last?
1- 4 sessions
5-10 sessions
10- 20 sessions
20-40 sessions
40+ sessions
On average, how many patients are in your caseload at one time?
If you only see patients one time, please indicate how many new patients you typically see each week.
1- 4 patients
5-10 patients
11- 20 patients
21-30 patients
More than 30 patients
We are interested in learning about your current understanding and opinions about the Unified Protocol for
Transdiagnostic Treatment for Emotional Disorders
In what ways have you already learned about the Unified Protocol? (Check all that apply).
Read the UP Therapist Guide
Read the UP Client Guide
Listened to audio or video recordings of the UP being delivered
Received other (non-certification) education or instruction related to delivering the UP (e.g., treatment discussed in a graduate training course)
This workshop is my first experience with the Unified Protocol.
Other (please describe)
Please respond to the following questions. If you don't know the answer to a question or questions (because you have had limited exposure to the Unified Protocol thus far), please answer "Don't know yet."
What have you heard about the Unified Protocol? How did you hear about it?
Why was the Unified Protocol was developed?
What therapeutic skills are included in the Unified Protocol?
What kinds of patients (diagnosis type, severity, demographic information, etc.) do you believe would benefit from the
Unified Protocol?
What kinds of patients (diagnosis type, severity, demographic information, etc.) do you think another treatment would be more appropriate?
Do you have any hesitations about using the Unified Protocol? If so, what are they?
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