Cognitive Approach to EXPLAIN DEPRESSION Flashcards
What does cognitive approach suggests?
Abnormal behaviour is caused by a fault irrational thoughts
Abnormal behaviour is caused by abnormal thinking processes , inaccurate perceptions , poor thinking and problem solving
Outline Ellie’s ABC Model
A
Activation - an event in a person’s life could cause a change in their thought process
e.g getting fired at work
Outline Ellie’s ABC Model
B
Beliefs
Their understanding and reasoning (senema /attriubtions) may change
e.g company was overstaffed / I was sucked because they always had it in me
Outline Ellie’s ABC Model
C
Consequences
Their behaviours/feelings may change
e.g irrational beliefs lead to unhealthy emotion - depression
Explain how ABC model explain depression
ABC explain depression
Activation - traumatic event or due to genetics (imbalance of chemicals)
Belief is having low self-esteem or taking blame for certain event
Consequence is having long period of irrational thoughts - depression
What is Beck’s Negative Triad?
- The self
- The world
- The future
What is example of the self?
I am just going to be plain undesirable
What is an example of the world?
I can understand why people don’t like me
What is an example of the future?
I am always going to be on my own , nothing is going to change this
Explain how depression develops using triad
‘Self’ Negative thoughts about yourself
‘World’ Affect this by decreasing activity in usual interests
‘Future’ Contunity of these thoughts linking with aggression/guilt/saddness
Structure of cognitive explain AO1
- Cognitive approach
- Ellis ABC model
- Beck’s negative triad
Strength - good supporting evidence
e.g Grazioli and Terry assessed 65 pregnant women for cognitive vulnerability and depression before and after birth
Found women judged to have high cognitive vulnerability more likely to suffer post-natal depression
Cognitions can be seen before depression develops
Beck may be right about cognitions causing depression in some cases
Limitation - Beck’s theory does not explain all the aspects of depression
Depression is a complex disorder
Some depressed patients are deeply angry - Beck cannot explain
Some may experience hallucinations and bizarre beliefs- Cotard syndrome (delusion that they are zombies)
Cannot always experience all cases of depression and focus one aspect
Limitation of Ellis model is a partial explanation of depression
- No doubt that some cases of depression follow activating evenets
- Psychologists call this reactive depression and see it different from the kind of depression that arsies without an obvious case
- Ellis explains to some kind of depression
