Ultra-brief Psychological Treatments for Emotional Symptoms and Disorders

Eight-session treatment based on Barlow's Unified Protocol. These sessions include: improving motivation and commitment to treatment, understanding the functioning of emotions, emotional awareness training, developing more flexible and adaptive thinking patterns, reduction of emotional avoidance and emotion-driven behaviors; awareness and tolerance of physical sensations; interoceptive and situational emotional exposure; achievement, maintenance and relapse prevention.

The participants in this group will receive basic training in Jacobson's progressive relaxation with a similar periodicity to the ultra-brief intervention.

This is a reduction to four sessions of the brief transdiagnostic treatment (Experimental group 1). For this reduction, sessions 1 and 2 of the brief transdiagnostic treatment will be combined, sessions 3 and 6 will be eliminated, and sessions 7 and 8 will be combined. As in experimental group 1, the treatment groups will consist of 8-10 people. Each session will have a duration of 1.5 hours and the intervention will be carried out on a weekly basis, with a maximum duration of four weeks.

Participants of this group, wil receive the same treatment than group 2 (ultra-brief transdiagnostic cognitive-behavioraltreatment in group format) but individual format. Each session will have a duration of 1 hour and the intervention will be carried out on a weekly basis, with a maximum duration of four weeks.