Feasibility of a Group Blended Transdiagnostic CBT Protocol for Emotional Disorders

The treatment combines group face-to-face and Internet-delivered psychotherapy: 7 group sessions delivered every 3 weeks plus the use of an online treatment platform between sessions. Its goal is to learn and practice adaptive regulation strategies from a mechanistically transdiagnostic approach, with a focus on both negative and positive affectivity. Each group session will focus on one of the following core components: the first group session will focus on CBT traditional strategies such as motivation for change and psychoeducation about emotions; sessions 2 to 5 will focus on strategies to down-regulate negative affect: present-focused emotional awareness, cognitive flexibility, emotional avoidance and emotion-driven behaviors, and interoceptive and situation-based emotion exposure; session 6 will focus on strategies to regulate positive affect; the final session will teach relapse prevention techniques. All the treatment components are delivered in 16 online treatment modules.