Unified Protocol For Transdiagnostic Treatment Of Emotional Disorders In Children: Workbook

Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Children and Adolescents provides mental health professionals with a flexible, transdiagnostic framework for treating emotional disorders in young clients. Building on the principles established in the adult unified protocol (UP), this program addresses the wide array of emotional disorders often seen in children and adolescents, including anxiety, depression, trauma, somatic symptom disorders, and obsessive-compulsive disorders. By emphasizing common elements across these disorders—such as intense negative emotions, avoidance behaviors, and a propensity toward distress—this protocol equips therapists to treat not only individual diagnoses but also the underlying vulnerabilities that contribute to multiple or co-occurring conditions.

 The Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Children and Adolescents comes in three volumes. This page is for the UP-C Workbook (Children). Click here for the UP-A Workbook (Adolescents). Click here for the Therapist Guide.

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Introduction to the Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Children: Workbook for Parents

Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Children: Welcome for Children

Chapter 1 – C Skill: Consider How I Feel (Session 1)

Chapter 2 – C Skill: Consider How I Feel (Session 2)

Chapter 3 – C Skill: Consider How I Feel (Session 3)

Chapter 4 – C Skill: Consider How I Feel (Session 4)

Chapter 5 – L Skill: Look at My Thoughts (Session 5)

Chapter 6 – U Skill: Use Detective Thinking and Problem Solving (Session 6)

Chapter 7 – U Skill: Use Detective Thinking and Problem Solving (Session 7)

Chapter 8 – E Skill: Experience My Emotions (Session 8)

Chapter 9 – E Skill: Experience My Emotions (Session 9)

Chapter 10 – E Skill: Experience My Emotions (Session 10)

Chapter 11 – E Skill: Experience My Emotions (Sessions 11–14)

Chapter 12 – S Skill: Stay Healthy and Happy (Session 15)

Chapter 13 – Consider How I Feel for Parents (Sessions 1–4 for Parents)

Chapter 14 – Look at My Thoughts for Parents (Session 5 for Parents)

Chapter 15 – Use Detective Thinking and Problem Solving for Parents (Sessions 6 and 7 for Parents)

Chapter 16 – Experience My Emotions for Parents (Sessions 8–14 for Parents)

Chapter 17 – Stay Healthy and Happy for Parents (Session 15 for Parents)

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Front Matter

Introduction & Theoretical Background

The Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Children and Adolescents provides mental health professionals with a flexible, transdiagnostic framework for treating emotional disorders in young clients. Building on the principles established in the adult unified protocol, this guide addresses the wide array of emotional disorders often seen in children and adolescents, including anxiety, depression, trauma, somatic symptom disorders, and obsessive-compulsive disorders. By emphasizing common elements across these disorders—such as intense negative emotions, avoidance behaviors, and a propensity toward distress—this protocol equips therapists to treat not only individual diagnoses but also the underlying vulnerabilities that contribute to multiple or co-occurring conditions. 

Developed as part of the Treatments That Work™  series, this guide applies a spectrum-based approach that targets emotional dysfunctions without focusing on a single diagnostic category. Youth struggling with high levels of neuroticism, for example, tend to experience emotions like fear, sadness, and anger more intensely and frequently

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Therapist Guidance

Each Treatments That Work® title is published in multiple volumes: 

  • Clients use the Workbooks, which contain elements of psychoeducation, skills development, self-assessment quizzes, homework exercises, and record forms.
  • Therapists use the Therapist Guides, which contain step-by-step instructions for teaching clients’ skills, overcoming common difficulties. 

Although written for the client, the exercises in the workbook are intended to be carried out under the supervision of a mental health professional. The authors suggest that the most effective implementation of these exercises requires an understanding of the principles underlying the different procedures, and that mental health professionals should be familiar with the companion workbook and therapist guide (Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Adolescents: Workbook; Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Therapist Guide) as well as this workbook.

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References And Further Reading

  • Ammerman, R. T., Bellack, A. S., Van Hasselt, V. B., Ellard, K. K., Deckersbach, T., Sylvia, L. G., & Barlow, D. H. (2012). Transdiagnostic treatment of bipolar disorder and comorbid anxiety with the unified protocol. Behavior Modification, 36(4), 482–508. doi:10.1177/0145445512451272
  • Barlow, D. H., Farchione, T. J., Bullis, J. R., Gallagher, M. W., Murray-Latin, H., Sauer-Zavala, S., … Cassiello-Robbins, C. (2017). The Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders compared with diagnosis-specific protocols for anxiety disorders: A randomized clinical trial. JAMA Psychiatry. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2017.2164
  • Bentley, K. H. (2017). Applying the unified protocol transdiagnostic treatment to nonsuicidal self-injury and co-occurring emotional disorders: A case illustration. Journal of Clinical Psychology. doi:10.1002/jclp.22452
  • Bentley, K. H., Nock, M., Sauer-Zavala, S., Gorman, B., & Barlow, D. H. (2017). A functional analysis of two transdiagnostic, emotion-focused interventions on nonsuicidal self-injury. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. doi:10.1037/ccp0000205
  • Bullis, J. R., Fortune, M. R., Farchione, T. J., & Barlow, D. H. (2014).

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