cognitive explainations for depression

Question 1

what does becks cognitive theory say?

Answer 1

-people vulnerable to depression due to the way they think
-there are 3 parts to this cognitive vulnerbaility

Question 2

what are the 3 parts to the cognitive vulnerbaility?

Answer 2

-faulty information processing
-negative self schemas
-negative triad

Question 3

what is faulty information processing?

Answer 3

-attend to the negatives
-ignores the positives
-blow small issues out of proportion
-black and white thinking

Question 4

what is negative self schemas?

Answer 4

-interpret all info about themselves in a negative way

Question 5

what is a negative triad?

Answer 5

1.negative view of the self
2.negative view of the future
3.negative view of the world

Question 6

what is ellis ABC model and what does it say?

Answer 6

-good mental health is a result of rational thinking
-so depression is due to irriational thinking
-affect behaviour state and emotional state

Question 7

what are 3 compoments in ellis ABC model?

Answer 7

-activating event
-beliefs
-consequences

Question 8

what is a activating event?

Answer 8

-believed negative thoughts are triggered by negative external events e.g failing important test

Question 9

what are beliefs?

Answer 9

MUSTURBATION= ‘i must always suceed, i must always achieve perfection’
I CANT STAND IT-ITIS= “if something doesnt go smoothly its a major disaster”
UTOPIANISM= “life should always be fair”

Question 10

what are the consequences?

Answer 10

-depression

Question 11

what are the strengths of becks cognitive model?

Answer 11

(good supporting evidence)
-cognitive vunrablities are more common in depressed people and precedes depression.
- CLARK AND BECK- concluded that not only were these cognitive vulnerablities in depressed people but preceded the depression
-confirmed by COHEN ET AL - tracked development of 473 adolscents regularly measuring cognitive vulnerbailty which they found later predicted depressiion
-so cognitive vulnerbaility = depression
(real world application)
-screening and treatment of depression
-cohen et al
-applied to CBT (helps us understand cognitive vulnerbality) = alters types of cognitions that make people vulnerable to depression; more resilient to negative life events
-understanding cognitive vunerabilties is useufl for clinical practice

Question 12

what are the limitations of becks cognitive model?

Answer 12

(emotions?)
-becks explaination of cognitive vulnerbaility is a partial explaniaiton
-beck doesnt inculde some of the more complex emotions
-e.g anger and halluncinations
-so incomplete

Question 13

what are the strengths to ellis ABC model?
(strenghts- real world)

Answer 13

-psycholgical treatments e.g rational practice behaviour therapy (rebt)
-vigoursly arguing can alter patients irritational beliefs that are making them unhappy
-REBT= change negative beliefs and relieve depression symptoms
-REBT = real world value
REBT can help some depressed people achieve resilence and feel better

Question 14

what are the limitations of ellis ABC model?

Answer 14

(reactive and endogenous depression)
-explains reactive depression but not endegenous depression
-depression is often triggered by life events but not many cases are tracable to life events e.g endegenous
-sometimes its not obvious to what led someone to becoming depressed at the time.
-partial explainations offered - only some types of depression explained
(ethical issues - blame)
-ABC model places responsiblity for developing depression with the depressed prsn - blaming them)
-makes it unfair