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An outline is presented of the SPAARS approach to emotion and emotional disorder. The model is then applied in general to issues of therapy, in particular, how Cognitive Behavioural approaches need to be adapted and to further issues in relation to mood disorders. Next is presented an account of unipolar depression together with a review of some of the implications of multi-level theories of emotion for working with individuals with unipolar depression. An account is presented of bipolar disorders together with an outline of how psychological approaches can be adapted to working in an emotion-focused manner with such disorders. A case study is included of someone with a bipolar disorder, which illustrates a number of relevant points for working with an emotion-focus. Copyright © 2004 John Wily & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]