Constructivist Integrative Therapy and Transdiagnostic Approach to Anxiety and Depression

Clinical Practice Research

Abstract

This paper presents an integrative constructivist approach to three of the relevant transdiagnostic concepts in depression and anxiety: Negative Affect and Positive Affect, Anxiety Sensitivity and Intolerance to Uncertainty. Clinical research from the comparison between outcome and common and differential therapeutic processes in anxious and depressive patients as well as in communalities and differences in their self-narratives is used to contrast the relevance of these concepts as well as their compatibility with the integrative approach to constructivism.