Main description:

The Unified Protocols for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Children and Adolescents, based in groundbreaking research from Jill Ehrenreich-May, David H. Barlow, and colleagues, suggest that there may be a simpler and more efficient method of utilizing effective strategies, such as those commonly included in CBT and third-wave behavior therapies, in a manner that addresses the broad array of emotional disorder symptoms in children and
adolescents. The Unified Protocols for children and adolescents include a Therapist Guide with two full courses of therapy described (a modular, individual therapy for adolescents; and, a more structured, group therapy for children, complete with a full parent-directed component), as well as two Workbooks, one for
children along with their parents or caregivers, and one for adolescents.

The child and adolescent Unified Protocols frame effective strategies in the general language of strong or intense emotions and promote change through a common lens that applies across emotional disorders, including anxiety, depression, obsessive compulsive disorders and others. Specifically, the child and adolescent Unified Protocols help youth by allowing them to focus on a straightforward goal across emotional disorders: reducing intense negative emotion states by extinguishing the distress
and anxiety these emotions produce through emotion-focused education, awareness techniques, cognitive strategies, problem-solving and an array of behavioral strategies, including a full-range of exposure and activation techniques.

Contents:

Introduction to the Unified Protocols for the Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Children (UP-C) and Adolescents (UP-A)

PART ONE: ADOLESCENTS (UP-A)

Chapter 1
Core Module 1: Building and Keeping Motivation

Chapter 2
Core Module 2: Getting to Know your Emotions and Behaviors

Chapter 3
Core Module 3: Introduction to Emotion-Focused Behavioral Experiments

Chapter 4
Core Module 4: Awareness of Physical Sensations

Chapter 5
Core Module 5: Being Flexible in Your Thinking

Chapter 6
Core Module 6: Awareness of Emotional Experiences

Chapter 7
Core Module 7: Situational Emotion Exposure

Chapter 8
Core Module 8: Reviewing Accomplishments and Looking Ahead

Chapter 9
Module P: Parenting the Emotional Adolescent

PART TWO: CHILDREN (UP-C)

Chapter 10
Introduction to the Unified Protocol for the Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Children (UP-C)

Chapter 11
UP-C Session 1: Introduction to the Unified Protocol for the Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Children
C Skill: Consider How I Feel

Chapter 12
UP-C Session 2: Getting to Know Your Emotions
C Skill: Consider How I Feel

Chapter 13
UP-C Session 3: Using Science Experiments to Change our Emotions and Behavior
C Skill: Consider How I Feel

Chapter 14
UP-C Session 4: Our Body Clues
C Skill: Consider How I Feel

Chapter 15
UP-C Session 5: Look at My Thoughts
L Skill: Look at My Thoughts

Chapter 16
UP-C Session 6: Use Detective Thinking
U Skill: Use Detective Thinking and Problem Solving

Chapter 17
UP-C Session 7: Problem Solving and Conflict Management
U Skill: Use Detective Thinking and Problem Solving

Chapter 18
UP-C Session 8: Awareness of Emotional Experiences
E Skill: Experience My Feelings

Chapter 19
UP-C Session 9: Introduction to Emotion Exposure
E Skill: Experience My Feelings

Chapter 20
UP-C Session 10: Facing Our Feelings-Part 1
E Skill: Experience My Feelings

Chapter 21
UP-C Sessions 11-14: Facing Our Feelings-Part 2
E Skill: Experience My Feelings

Chapter 22
UP-C Session 15: Wrap Up and Relapse Prevention
S Skill: Stay Healthy and Happy

PART THREE: VARIATIONS AND ADAPTATIONS

Chapter 23
UP Group and Individual Therapy Variations, Other Adaptations
Considerations for adapting UP-A and UP-C for use with different populations