Mastering the Unified Protocol: A Transdiagnostic Approach to Emotional Disorders – Shannon Sauer-Zavala

Mastering the Unified Protocol: A Transdiagnostic Approach to Emotional Disorders – Shannon Sauer-Zavala

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Real clients don’t fit into simple diagnostic categories. And when clients come in with multiple issues, it’s easy to fall into the “what do I treat first” trap.

But what if you could learn ONE protocol that gets to the heart of what creates suffering in every client with an emotional disorder, regardless of diagnoses?

Developed by Dr. David Barlow at Boston University, the Unified Protocol (UP) cuts across traditional diagnostic boundaries to focus on key psychological processes underlying most mental health issues. Leave behind the confusion and frustration of chasing treatment order or switching between approaches – with the UP, you will simultaneously reduce symptoms of co-occurring disorders, all while improving your clients’ quality of life.

In this workshop, Dr. Shannon Sauer-Zavala, co-developer of the UP, will walk you through 8 easy-to-learn modules and demonstrate how you can use UP principles flexibly to:

• Harness your clients’ motivation toward change
• Teach your clients to better understand and utilize the power of their emotions
• Facilitate cognitive restructuring exercises to enhance the clarity of your clients’ thinking and deciding
• Revamp your clients’ mistaken appraisals of triggering body sensations
• Improve your clients’ ability to be present and in charge of their behaviors

Outline:

Controversial issues in diagnosis

• History of mental health disorders classification
• Categorical approach: the problem of phenotypic overlap
• Comorbidity – when only the content of worries distinguishes diagnosis
• Ill-fitting diagnostic boxes: unspecified and subthreshold presentations

Rationale for transdiagnostic treatment and a return to lumping disorders

• Conventional approaches: the burden of one diagnosis = one treatment
• Personality/temperamental factors supporting a transdiagnostic approach
• Neurobiological evidence for going deeper than symptom level

The two vulnerabilities to developing emotional disorders

• Experiencing strong emotions and having strong negative reactions to intense emotions
• Transdiagnostic case conceptualization – when avoidance backfires
• Unified Protocol: core strategies to increase clients’ willingness to experience strong emotions

Starting out: Understanding what gets clients going and what keeps them stuck

• Conducting assessments and getting clients on board with UP treatment
• Harnessing and maintaining motivation
• Exercise: Goal setting and decisional balance
• Case study

Developing a better understanding of emotional experience

• Teaching clients the adaptive function of their uncomfortable feelings
• “Just relax” – understanding the interacting components of thoughts, physical sensations, and emotions
• Break out of the vacuum – recognizing the ARC (antecedents, response, consequence)
• Exercise: Cultivating mindful attention and Mindful mood induction
• Case study

Shining a light on how thinking generates and maintains distress

• Dismantling thinking traps: the role of automatic, habitual cognitive appraisals
• Targeting specific types of cognitive inflexibility: overestimation and catastrophizing
• What to do when cognitive work falls flat with your clients
• Exercise: Ambiguous picture

Understanding and countering avoidance strategies

• The five categories of emotional behaviors that reinforce symptoms
• Deciding on alternative action experiments
• Exercise: Paradox of suppression
• Case study

Fostering more accurate appraisals of body sensations

• Shaking clients’ conviction that they cannot handle situations and emotions
• Interoceptive exposures – de-triggering your clients’ physical experience
• Exercise: Playground metaphor and generating exposure ideas
• Case study

Climbing the ladder of emotion exposures

• Situational, imaginal, interoceptive!
• Creating strong emotion to show clients they can cope
• Exposure preparation and debriefing
• Exercise: Create a hierarchy
• Case study

Maintaining gains and preventing relapse

• Treatment consolidation and relapse prevention
• Tips for teaching clients to be their own therapist
• Exercise: Distinguish symptom relief goals from well-being goals

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