cognitive approach to explaining depression

Question 1

Evidence of prior cognitive vulnerabilities in depressed people

Answer 1

Clark and Beck (1999): cognitive vulnerability precedes sympotms
Cohen et al. (2019): cognitive vulnerability predeicts later depression

Question 2

real world application to treatment

Answer 2

Cohen et al (2019): cognitive vulnerability enables screening of high-risk patients.
Gatum (2020): CBT one of the most effective treatments

Question 3

negative manipulation of cognition can exacberate symptoms:

Answer 3

Boury et al. (2001): depressed negatively misinterpret information
Bates et al (1999): reading negative statements worsened symptoms

Question 4

the cognitve approach may be reductionist and partial

Answer 4

Mustabatory thinking does not account for other symptoms of biological causes/ treatments.