Unified Protocol for Adolescents (UP-A) Change Processes

The Unified Protocol for Emotional Disorders in Adolescents (UP-A), is a transdiagnostic therapeutic intervention employing core dysfunction approaches, defined as such due to their attendance to features of various (emotional) disorders. The treatment may work to ameliorate symptoms more broadly by targeting cross-cutting features common to the range of disorders targeted. Specifically, the UP-A might lead to the successful treatment of an array of emotional disorders in youth by targeting processes common across these frequently co-occurring problems including poor distress tolerance, limited cognitive flexibility, and heightened avoidance.