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Psychopathology- The Cognitive Approach to Explaining & Treating Depression
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Psychopathology- The Cognitive Approach to Explaining & Treating Depression
explaining depression
- Ellis ABC model
- Depression is a result of irrational thoughts
- activating event
- Belief
- consequences
- you have an emotional response to the belief; you are worthless
- you have a belief about that event; you're not good enough
- consequences
- something happens to you, someone tells you your not good enough
- Belief
- activating event
- Depression is a result of irrational thoughts
- Becks cognitive theory
- depression stems from unrealistic, distorted, negative or irrational thoughts about oneself, others or the enviroment
- difficulties in controlling thought processes
- unable to see positives
- Cognitive Triad
- negative views about the world
- negative views about the future
- negative views about oneself
- negative views about the world
- Cognitive Triad
- unable to see positives
- difficulties in controlling thought processes
- depression stems from unrealistic, distorted, negative or irrational thoughts about oneself, others or the enviroment
- Evaluation
- evidence to suggest that depression is associated with negative thinking
- Grazoli and Terry
- assessed 65 pregnant women for cognitive vunerability and depression before and after giving birth
- women who scord highl in cognitive vunerability were more likely to suffer post natal depression
- assessed 65 pregnant women for cognitive vunerability and depression before and after giving birth
- Grazoli and Terry
- CBT has been very effective in treating depression. strong support for the cognitive approach
- ignores the biological approach
- strong evidence in family studies that biological factors play a very important role in depression
- wender found that adopted children who develop depression are likely to have a depressed parent
- diathesis model - suggest some people inherit a vunerability to disorders
- wender found that adopted children who develop depression are likely to have a depressed parent
- strong evidence in family studies that biological factors play a very important role in depression
- cognitive triad, what comes first?
- taylor - irrational thoughts
- evidence to suggest that depression is associated with negative thinking
- Ellis ABC model
Treating depression
- CBT
- therapists use techniques based on Ellis ABC model and Becks cognitive triad or both
- one form of CBT is REBT
- challenges irrational beliefs
- ABCDE model
- D - dispute
- E - effect
- logical disputing
- gets the client to realise their self defeating beliefs are not logical
- Emperical disputing
- Gets the client to realise their self defeating beliefs aren't realistic
- Pragmatic disputing
- gets the client to realise their self defeating beliefs are nor useful
- D - dispute
- ABCDE model
- challenges irrational beliefs
- Becks negative triad
- the therapist identifies and challanges automatic thoughts about the world, the self and future
- therapist could ask the client to record when people are nice to them
- later used to challenge the belief that no one likes them
- therapist could ask the client to record when people are nice to them
- the therapist identifies and challanges automatic thoughts about the world, the self and future
- one form of CBT is REBT
- evaluation
- effective therapy
- Smith and glass
- CBT had the second higest success rate (Second to SD)
- Smith and glass
- Deals with the cause
- long term solution
- not appropriate for all clients
- difficult to complete without medication
- Takes tie to complete
- effective therapy
- therapists use techniques based on Ellis ABC model and Becks cognitive triad or both
- CBT
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- A level Psychology (Psychopathology) Mind Map on Psychopathology- The Cognitive Approach to Explaining & Treating Depression, created by Lilly Clare on 10/03/2017.
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- Lilly Clare · Mar 2017
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- Mar 12, 2017
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