Arts therapies draw upon many theories and models of practice, but lack consensus in shared factors their provision. In preparation for a randomised controlled trial involving art therapy, dance movement therapy music we used experiential practice-based methods to develop model manual mixed diagnosis arts groups community mental health care. Six therapists met over the course year explore commo...

The high degree of comorbidity among mental disorders has generated interest in identifying transdiagnostic processes associated with multiple types of psychopathology. Susan Nolen-Hoeksema conceptualized rumination as one such transdiagnostic process associated with depression, anxiety, substance abuse, binge eating, and self-injurious behavior. The degree to which rumination accounts for the ...

Most serious mental disorders are currently treated as though they are discrete diagnostic entities deserving of disorder-speci!c treatment. However, it is known that many commonalities exist across all emotional disorders (particularly early-stage or mild-to-moderate anxiety and mood disorders). Accordingly, a more parsimonious approach might o"er substantive bene!ts with less cost and broader...

Accumulating evidence suggests that repetitive negative thinking (RNT) is a transdiagnostic phenomenon. However, various forms of RNT such as worry, rumination, and post-event processing have been assessed using separate measures and have almost exclusively been examined within the anxiety, depression, and social phobia literatures, respectively. A single transdiagnostic measure of RNT would fa...

Sleep disturbance is increasingly recognized as an important, but understudied, mechanism in the complex and multi-factorial causation of the symptoms and functional disability associated with psychiatric disorders. This review proposes that it is biologically plausible for sleep disturbance to be mechanistically transdiagnostic. More specifically, we propose that sleep disturbance is aetiologi...

Backgroud: Anxiety disorders are characterized by excessive emotional responses that generate major disturbances, causing cognitive and behavioral changes triggering somatic manifestations. Therapeutic interventions show relevance significant results for the treatment of anxiety. Aim: To identify therapeutic used in anxiety disorders. Method: A search publications indexed three electronic datab...

The current study used longitudinal data to examine the role of emotional awareness as a transdiagnostic risk factor for internalizing symptoms. Participants were 204 youth, ages 7 to 16, who completed assessments every three months for a year. Results from hierarchical mixed effects modeling indicated that low emotional awareness predicted both depressive and anxiety symptoms for up to one yea...