Abstract

ALMEIDA, Diogo  and  MARINHO, Guadalupe. Transdiagnostic cognitive-behavioral therapy: a literature review. Psic., Saúde & Doenças [online]. 2021, vol.22, n.3, pp.979-990.  Epub Dec 31, 2021. ISSN 1645-0086.  https://doi.org/10.15309/21psd220317.

Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) has stood out as one of the main therapeutic tools in recent decades, constituting a first-line treatment for several pathologies. However, in recent years, conventional CBT has been criticized for the exponential increase in existing disorder-specific treatment protocols, involving high training costs, limiting access and dissemination. Given these limitations, transdiagnostic CBT was proposed based on the discovery of transdiagnostic processes common to various mental disorders. In these interventions, it is assumed that the same therapeutic principles can be applied to various mental disorders, without the need to adjust treatment protocols to each one of them. The advantages that this approach offers, in comparison with conventional CBT, are greater accessibility and consequent dissemination, the potential for treating comorbidities simultaneously and greater applicability in heterogeneous disorders. The effectiveness of transdiagnostic CBT has been the target of recent meta-analyses and has been scientifically validated, being in many cases not inferior to conventional CBT. However, research in this area is still limited, there is still no common theoretical basis for the various transdiagnostic processes described, the reduced individualization of treatments can lead to lower patient adherence and mental health services, usually divided in function of the diagnoses and specialization of clinicians, need to be reorganized.

Keywords : Transdiagnostic; Cognitive-behavioral therapy; Treatment outcome.

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