BACKGROUND Previous studies have demonstrated that acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is effective for depression and may be useful for complex transdiagnostic clients. AIMS To conduct a preliminary evaluation of whether ACT is feasible and effective when delivered by psychologists and non-psychologists for complex clients in a National Health Service (NHS) community mental health servic...

Staging models are used routinely in general medicine for potentially serious or chronic physical disorders such as diabetes, arthritis and cancers, describing the links between biomarkers, clinical phenotypes and disease extension, and promoting a personalised or stratified medicine approach to treatment planning. Clinical staging involves a detailed description of where an individual exists o...

We describe the treatment of a patient with BN (plus comorbid major depression and generalised anxiety disorder) who completed stage one and stage two of CBTE at a specialist eating disorders outpatient clinic. Despite good compliance with all components of the treatment, the patient did not achieve an early rapid reduction in binge-eating and purging by the stage two progress review and was co...

Categorical models dominate the eating disorder field, but the tandem use of categorical and dimensional models has been proposed. A transdiagnostic dimensional model, number of lifetime eating disorder behaviors (LEDB), was examined with respect to (1) its relationship to a variety of indicators of the individual's functioning, (2) the degree to which it was influenced by genetic and environme...

Can you treat someone with a BMI 15 alongside someone with a BM 48? Will there be more differences than similarities? These were some questions faced when deciding inclusion criteria in our transdiagnositic Central Coast Day Program. We use Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in treatment. The use of a ‘values based’ approach is helpful in recovery providing ‘common ground’ for clients who ...

Abstract The limited material and human resources available in the Spanish public mental health system, combined with high prevalence of emotional disorders nowadays, makes it necessary to search for implement other more cost-effective formats. versatility Unified Protocol (UP) transdiagnostic treatment allows its application group format, which could be a solution system. aim present study is ...

BACKGROUND The unified protocol for the transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders is a promising treatment approach that could be applicable to a broad range of mental disorders, including depressive, anxiety, trauma-related, and obsessive-compulsive disorders. However, no randomized controlled trial has been conducted to verify the efficacy of the unified protocol on the heterogeneous c...

Although there is evidence for the efficacy of psychodynamic therapy (PDT) in anxiety disorders, results are not yet satisfactory, for example, if rates of remission and response are considered. To address this problem, a unified psychodynamic protocol for anxiety disorders (UPP-ANXIETY) is proposed that integrates the treatment principles of those methods of PDT that have proven to be efficaci...

Abstract Background Patient memory for psychological treatment contents is a promising transdiagnostic mechanism of change, but there little consensus concerning its measurement. We conducted pilot psychometric investigation the Conceptualization Task, novel measure patient treatment. Methods Data were from trial comparing cognitive therapy-as-usual to therapy plus Memory Support Intervention (...