We describe an approach to anxiety, depressive, trauma-related, and other disorders, which we conceptualize as “emotional disorders” because of shared underlying dimensions uncovered by the study of traits or temperaments. We then explicate a functional model of emotional disorders based largely, but not exclusively, on the temperament of neuroticism and describe common factors that account for the development and maintenance of these conditions. We conclude by describing, and presenting supporting data for, a unified transdiagnostic approach to the treatment of emotional disorders that directly targets the underlying temperament of neuroticism and associated temperamental characteristics.

我们描述了一种治疗焦虑、抑郁、创伤相关和其他疾病的方法，我们将其概念化为“情绪障碍”，因为对特征或气质的研究发现了共同的潜在维度。然后，我们解释了情绪障碍的功能模型，主要基于但不完全基于神经质的气质，并描述了导致这些状况发展和维持的共同因素。最后，我们通过描述和提供支持数据来描述一种统一的跨诊断方法来治疗情绪障碍，该方法直接针对神经质的潜在气质和相关的气质特征。