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A transdiagnostic cognitive behaviour therapy-based intervention in a secondary-care mental health service

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2016

Emily Garner Open the ORCID record for Emily Garner [Opens in a new window] ,
Chris Gillmore  and
Claire Lomax
Emily Garner*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, UK
Chris Gillmore
Affiliation:
Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, Bath NHS House, Bath, UK
Claire Lomax
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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*Author for correspondence: Dr E. Garner, Department of Psychology, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, UK (email: emilygarner@nhs.net).
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Abstract

Due to the growing evidence base supporting the hypothesis of common processes across different mental health problems, transdiagnostic interventions are receiving increased research attention. Transdiagnostic approaches have the potential to produce better outcomes, to reduce waiting times and to increase cost-effectiveness in stretched mental health services. Research into transdiagnostic cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) in group format has demonstrated positive results in participants with anxiety disorders, with some studies extending the inclusion criteria to secondary and comorbid symptoms. This study evaluates a transdiagnostic CBT-based intervention, delivered by a secondary-care mental health team and includes participants with a range of diagnoses typical of this population. The real-world setting and lack of exclusion criteria based upon diagnosis provides an ecologically valid evaluation of a transdiagnostic CBT-based intervention. The results suggest that the intervention was associated with reductions in self-reported symptomatology and improvements in social functioning of individuals who attended in a secondary-care mental health service.

Keywords

CBTcognitive behaviour therapygrouptransdiagnostic
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Practice article
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the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist , Volume 9 , 2016 , e5
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 2016 

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