Explaning Depression

Question 1

What does ‘cognitive approach’ mean

Answer 1

Mental processes

Question 2

Depression is viewed as a result of what

Answer 2

Irrational or faulty thinking/ cognitive processes

Question 3

Outline Ellis’s ABC model (1962)

Answer 3

A- activating event: usually a negative event that causes irrational beliefs

B- beliefs: irrational beliefs like viewing something as a major disaster when something doesn’t go smoothly (i-can’t-stand-it is) or striving for perfection (musterbation)

C- consequences: as a result of the steps before the can have consequences. For example depression

Question 4

Outline Becks negative triad (1967)

Answer 4

-Explains why people a vulnerable to depression

FAULTY INFO PROCESSING - focusing on the negatives

NEGATIVE SELF SHEMA - interpret all info about themselves negatively

THE NEGATIVE TRIAD - negative view of the self/ the world/ the future

Question 5

What are the features of the negative triad

Answer 5

NEGATIVE VIEWS OF….

-THE SELF 🧍‍♀️
- THE WORLD 🌎
- THE FUTURE 👀

Question 6

Strength for Becks negative triad

(R/S)

Answer 6

P: Research support

E: Cohen et al (2019) tracked he development of 473 adolescents and regularly measured their cognitive vulnerability. It found that showing cognitive vulnerability predicted later depression

E: TST there is an association between cognitive vulnerability & depression

Question 7

Strength for Becks negative triad
(RWA)

Answer 7

P: Real world applications

E: Cohen concluded that screening people and identifying those most at risk. It could also be applied to CBT.

E: TMT an understanding of cognitive vulnerability is useful in more than 1 clinical practice

Question 8

Strength for the ABC model
(RWA)

Answer 8

P: real wold applications

E: the treatment used in CBT is RATIONAL EMOTIVE BEHAVIOUR THERAPY (rebt) when a therapist challenges the the belfries of the depressed person to alter their thinking/ beliefs making them unhappy

E: it has proven to be effective and TMT it has real world value

Question 9

Weakness of ABC model

Answer 9

P: Reactive and endogenous depression

E: it only explains the reactive depression (as a result of the environment) not endogenous depression where there is no clear link to a stressful life situation

E: TMT the model can only explain some cases = it is a partial explanation

Question 10

How is both Ellis and Becks models limited?

Answer 10

Doesn’t explain hoe some depressed People experimenter hallucinations or extreme anger or delusions.

This is not explained by the cognitive explanation. TMT its a partial explanation