Recent conceptualization of anxiety, depressive, and related" emotional" disorders
emphasize their similarities rather than their differences. In response, there has been a
movement in recent years away from traditional disorder-specific manuals for the treatment
of these disorders and toward treatment approaches that focus on addressing psychological
processes that appear to cut across disorders. These" transdiagnostic" evidence-based
treatments may prove to be more cost efficient and have the potential to increase availability …

" The Unified Protocols for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Children
and Adolescents (UP-C/UP-A; Ehrenreich-May et al., 2018) are transdiagnostic interventions
designed to address multiple diagnoses, diagnostic categories, and/or problem types within
a single treatment protocol. It might be said that modern transdiagnostic interventions
originated within the early years of the twenty-first century with theoretical and empirical
work by Barlow and colleagues conceptualizing a" unified approach" to understanding and …