Transdiagnostic Approach to Anxiety Disorders: Common Factors and Integrative Interventions
Öz
Anxiety disorders hold an important place in both clinical and research studies due to their prevalence and potential to negatively impact individuals' functioning and quality of life. Traditional diagnosis-based intervention approaches target symptoms specific to certain disorders; however, they have significant limitations, such as the prevalence of comorbidity and insufficient consideration of individual differences. Therefore, transdiagnostic approaches, which target cognitive and emotional processes that commonly occur across different disorders, offer a more comprehensive and flexible intervention opportunity. This review addresses the main transdiagnostic mechanisms involved in the onset, development, and maintenance of anxiety disorders, including comprehensively examining rumination, anxiety sensitivity, emotion regulation difficulties, behavioral avoidance, intolerance of uncertainty, perfectionism, cognitive flexibility, psychological flexibility, mindfulness, and self-compassion processes. In line with relevant literature findings, it is understood that the examined transdiagnostic processes are associated with multiple psychopathologies, play a central role in explaining comorbidity patterns, and can provide meaningful improvement in anxiety and accompanying symptoms when targeted for intervention.
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
Psikolojik danışmanlık, Psikoterapi Uygulama ve Araştırmaları
Bölüm
Derleme
Yazarlar
Fulya Turk
0000-0003-1896-8418
Türkiye
Sena Açıkgöz
0000-0002-4731-1362
Türkiye
Berkan Can Kara
0000-0001-7459-679X
Türkiye
Aykut Kul
0000-0002-2851-2222
Türkiye
Zeynep Hamamcı
0000-0002-3678-9387
Türkiye
Erken Görünüm Tarihi
16 Şubat 2026
Yayımlanma Tarihi
16 Şubat 2026
Gönderilme Tarihi
14 Aralık 2025
Kabul Tarihi
16 Şubat 2026
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2026 Sayı: Advanced Online Publication
Cited By
Maladaptive Coping Strategies in Anxiety Disorders and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Transdiagnostic Perspective
Psikiyatride Guncel Yaklasimlar - Current Approaches in Psychiatry
https://doi.org/10.18863/pgy.1907561
