Explaining Depression Beck's Negative Triad/Ellis's ABC Model

Question 1

What are the three elements of the negative triad?

Answer 1

• Negative view of the world, self, future

Question 2

What is a Negative Self-Schema?

Answer 2

• A self-schema is the package of information people have about themselves, Interpret all info about themselves in a negative way

Question 3

What is Faulty Information Processing?

Answer 3

• Selective attention to the negative aspects of situations

Question 4

What does Beck’s Theory accomplish?

Answer 4

• Explains vulnerability to depression in cognitive terms

Question 5

What Research Support was given to support the Negative Triad?

Answer 5

Strength:
- Research support. Clark and Beck (1999) concluded cognitive vulnerabilities (faulty info processing, negative self-schema and cognitive triad) were not only more common in depressed people but but preceded the depression. Association between cognitive vulnerability and depression

Question 6

How can Beck’s theory be applied in the real-world? And who used it to do so?

Answer 6

Strength:
- Real-world application. Cohen concluded assessing cognitive vulnerability allows psychologists to screen young people identifying those at risk and monitoring them). Also applied in CBT, which makes people more resilient to life events. Useful

Question 7

What is the general principle of Ellis’s ABC Model?

Answer 7

• Irrational beliefs make us overreact to events and get depressed

Question 8

What does the A stand for?

Answer 8

• an Activating event (a negative life event)

Question 9

What does the B stand for?

Answer 9

• Beliefs (irrational interpretations of A make us overreact to the life event)

Question 10

What does the C stand for?

Answer 10

• Consequences (emotional and behavioral outcome is depression)

Question 11

What is the real-world application of the ABC Model?

Answer 11

• Real-world application. REBT (Rational Emotional Behavior Therapy) Vigorously arguing with a depressed person, therapist can alter irrational beliefs that are making them unhappy. Some evidence REBT can both change negative beliefs and relieve symptoms of depression. Real-world value

Question 12

For what reason is Ellis’s ABC Model only a partial explanation?

Answer 12

• Only explains reactive depression and not endogenous depression. Reactive depression - triggered by activating event. Endogenous - not traceable or obvious why said person is depressed. Can only explain some cases of depression and therefore is only a partial explanation