Description: An updated, transdiagnostic approach to treating anxiety, mood, and related emotional disorders by targeting the core processes that cut across diagnoses. Participants explore how patterns like emotional avoidance, rigid appraisals, and fear of internal experience maintain distress, and how the Unified Protocol addresses these patterns through emotion awareness, cognitive flexibility, and emotion-based exposure. The session offers a clear clinical rationale, practical structure, and rich clinical examples that help clinicians work more effectively with complex, comorbid presentations using a single, flexible framework.
Syllabus Description: This workshop will present recent developments in the application of a transdiagnostic unified, cognitive behavioral and emotion-focused approach to treating emotional disorders. Workshop participants will learn how to apply treatment components to a wide range of emotional disorders . Workshop participants will learn how to apply treatment components to a wide range of emotional disorders in adults through instruction, case examples, and video clinical vignettes.
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Professor of Psychology, Research Professor of Psychiatry, Director of Clinical Training Programs, and Director of the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston University. Editor of Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. He is a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology of the American Board of Professional Psychology, and maintains a private practice. Dr. Barlow has published over 500 articles, chapters and books. He is the recipient of numerous awards, most recently the C. Charles Burlingame Award from the Institute for Living.