Explaining Depression: KT

Question 1

Cognitive Approach

Answer 1

The term cognitive has come to mean mental processes, so this approach focuses on how mental processes (eg. thoughts, perceptions and attention) affect our behaviour

Question 2

Negative triad

Answer 2

Beck proposed that there were three kinds of negative thinking that contributed to becoming depressed. Negative views of the world, the future and the self. Such negative views lead ta person to interpret their experiences in a negative way and so make them more vulnerable to depression

Question 3

ABC model

Answer 3

Ellis proposed that depression occurs when an active event (A) triggers an irrational belief (B) which in turn produces a consequence (C), i.e a emotional response like depression, The key to this processes is the irrational belief