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ArticleBehavior therapy2021

Skill Acquisition During Transdiagnostic Treatment With the Unified Protocol.

Shannon Sauer-Zavala, Anthony J Rosellini, Kate H Bentley, Amantia A Ametaj, James F Boswell, Clair Cassiello-Robbins, Julianne Wilner Tirpak, Todd J Farchione, David H Barlow

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Article in Behavior therapy, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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11citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Shannon Sauer-ZavalaUniversity of Kentucky. Electronic address: ssz@uky.edu.
Anthony J RoselliniBoston University.
Kate H BentleyMassachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School.
Amantia A AmetajHarvard School of Public Health.
James F BoswellUniversity at Albany, State University of New York.
Clair Cassiello-RobbinsDuke University Medical Center.
Julianne Wilner TirpakBoston University.
Todd J FarchioneBoston University.
David H BarlowBoston University.
Duke Medical Center · USHarvard University · USMassachusetts General Hospital · USUniversity at Albany, State University of New York · USUniversity of Kentucky · US

Funding

Efficacy Evaluation of a Unified Transdiagnostic Treatment for Anxiety DisordersR01MH090053 · NIMH · BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS) · PI BARLOW, DAVID H. · 2011 to 2015
$2.9M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH090053
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Unified Protocol (UP) for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders is an emotion-focused, cognitive-behavioral intervention developed to address the full range of anxiety, depressive, and related disorders. The UP consists of core therapeutic skills that, though unique in focus, are each designed to promote an approach-oriented stance toward emotional experiences. The goal of the present investigation was to characterize changes in these skills for patients that received a course of treatment with the UP, as well as to examine associations between skills and symptoms changes. Patients with principal anxiety disorders, assigned to receive treatment with the UP (N = 88) as part of a randomized controlled trial, were included in this study. They completed validated self-report measures of UP skills (Understanding Emotions, Mindful Emotion Awareness, Cognitive Flexibility, Countering Emotional Behaviors, and Interoceptive Awareness and Tolerance), as well as clinician-rated measures of psychological symptoms. Skill measures improved significantly over the course of 12 to 16 UP treatment sessions and changes in these skills measures were associated with improvements in anxiety symptoms. Determining whether improvement on all the skills learned during a course of treatment with UP is associated with symptom remission is critical to establishing the most streamlined and efficient interventions that may ultimately be best suited to widespread dissemination.

Indexed as

Cognitive Behavioral TherapyMindfulnessAnxietyAnxiety DisordersEmotionsHumansRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicTreatment Outcomecognitive-behavioral therapyskillstransdiagnosticUnified Protocol

Identifiers

PMID34656189
PMCPMC12912188
OpenAlexW3138338340

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