Cognitive Approach With Depression

Question 1

What are the 2 explanations to explain depression

Answer 1

Becks negative triad and Ellis’sABC model

Question 2

Who are the 2 psychologists that studied depression

Answer 2

Beck and Ellis

Question 3

What did Beck believe in terms of who is more vulnerable to depression

Answer 3

depends on the persons cognition

Question 4

What is faulty information processing

Answer 4

When depressed people attend t the negative spect of a situation and ignores the positive

Question 5

What is negative self scheme

Answer 5

A schema is a mental framework of interpretations and is a package of ideas so if it is negative it means that they interpret all info abt themselves in a negative way

Question 6

what is the negative triad

Answer 6

It is a collection of 3 elements that people with depression automatically see negatively regardless of the actual reality

Question 7

What is the negative triad consisted of

Answer 7

Negative view of the:
-self
-world
-future

Question 8

Explain negative view of the world

Answer 8

The impression that there is no hope for anything anywhere

Question 9

Explain negative view of the future

Answer 9

Having no hope or positive thoughts about the future

Question 10

Explain negative view of the self

Answer 10

Seeing yourself with a negative perception and this enhances depressive feelings and triggers low self esteem

Question 11

What did Ellis come up with

Answer 11

ABC Model

Question 12

What is the ABC Model

Answer 12

A model to explain how irrational thoughts affect our behaviour and emotional state

Question 13

What did Ellis believe about how depression comes along

Answer 13

As a result of irrational thoughts

Question 14

What did Ellis define irrational thoughts as

Answer 14

Not as illogical or unrealistic thoughts, but as any thoughts that interfere with is being happy and free from pain.

Question 15

What are the 3 components of the ABC model

Answer 15

Activating events
Beliefs
Consequences

Question 16

Explain activating event as part of the ABC model

Answer 16

Irrational thoughts are typically triggered by external events

Question 17

Explain beliefs as part of the ABC model

Answer 17

He called the belief that we must always succeed or achieve perfection as ‘musturbation’ . ‘I can’t stand it itis’ is the belief that it is a major disaster whenever somethings doesn’t go smoothly. ‘Utopianism’ is the belief that life us always meant to be fair

Question 18

Explain consequences as part of the ABC model

Answer 18

When an activating event triggers irrational beliefs, there are emotional and behavioural consequences.

Question 19

What are the 2 strengths of Becks negative triad

Answer 19

.there is a lot of support research , the link between cognitive vulnerability and depression
.real world application, application in screening and treatment for depression

Question 20

What is a strength of Ellis’s ABC model

Answer 20

Real world application, psychological treatment of depression, cognitive therapy allied REBT, REBT has real world value

Question 21

What is a limitation of Ellis’s ABC model

Answer 21

It only explains reactive depression and not endogenous depression. His model is less useful for explaining endogenous depression. This means his model can only explain some cases of depression and is therefore only a partial explanation.

Question 22

What type of therapy is used to treat depression

Answer 22

Cognitive behaviour therapy

Question 23

What are the 2 elements involved in CBT

Answer 23

Majorly cognitive elements and some behavioural elements

Question 24

What was becks contribution for treatments of depression

Answer 24

Becks cognitive therapy which is based from the negative triad

Question 25

What does the phrase ‘client as a scientist’ mean

Answer 25

When the psychologist wants to help the patient be in reality with their negative beliefs and so they might set them hw such as to record when they enjoyed an event or when someone said something nice to them.

Question 26

Wha was Ellis’s contribution of the treatments of depression

Answer 26

Rational emotive behaviour therapy

Question 27

What does the D and the E stand for from the extended ABC model (ABCDE)

Answer 27

D- dispute E- effect

Question 28

What is the central technique of REBT

Answer 28

To identify and dispute irrational thoughts

Question 29

What would an REBT therapist do

Answer 29

Identify what these thoughts are an explanation of for example if the thoughts are an example of Utopianism and then challenge these irrational beliefs which tends to include a vigorous argument

Question 30

What is the intended effect of the vigorous argument that REBT therapists carry out

Answer 30

It is to change the irrational beliefs and break the link between the negative life events

Question 31

What did Ellis identify different methods of

Answer 31

Different methods of disputing

Question 32

What are the 2 types of disputing

Answer 32

Empirical argument and logical argument

Question 33

What does empirical argument involve

Answer 33

It involves disputing whether there is actual evidence to support the negative belief

Question 34

What does logical argument involve

Answer 34

It disputes whether the negative thought logically follows from the facts

Question 35

What is the goal of behavioural activation

Answer 35

It is to work with depressed individuals to gradually decrease their avoidance and isolation and increase their engagement in activities and this has shown to improve moods

Question 36

What is a strength of the CBT

Answer 36

T has a large body of evidence to support its effectiveness. This is put against the argument of using antidepressant drugs an a study was done by John March. he found that CBT was just as effective when used by itself and even more with drugs. it is also cost effective and both these mean that CBT is the first choice of treatment in public health

Question 37

What is a limitation (without counterpoint) of CBT

Answer 37

It has high relapse rates and there are concerns of how long the benefits lasts. There have been studies to see the long term effectiveness of CBT and one show that the outcomes are not as good as assumed. Shehzad Ali also tested the relapse rate and saw it was quite high.

Question 38

What is the limitation (with counterpoint) of CBT

Question 39

What is the counterpoint of the limitation of CBT