Psychopathology

Question 1

What is depression?

Answer 1

Depression is a mode affective disorder. You must have a depressed mood or loss of pleasure in daily activities for more than 2 weeks to get diagnosed with depression and you must have 5 out of the 9 official symptoms.

Question 2

What is Aaron Beck’s take on depression?

Answer 2

Aaron Beck says that people with depression process information differently (in a negative way).

Question 3

What is cognitive bias?

Answer 3

When people with depression are prone to distorting and mis-interpreting information.

Question 4

What are the 3 main psychological effects depression has on the brain?

Answer 4

1. Cognitions are biased
2. They have negative thoughts about themselves, the future and the world (negative triad).
3. They over generalise situations.

Question 5

What is Catastrophising?

Answer 5

Making a situation a big deal.

Question 6

What is our schema?

Answer 6

A pocket of information about how a situation works based on past experiences.

Question 7

What is Ellis’ ABC model?

Answer 7

A) activating event
B) beliefs
C) consequences

Question 8

How does cognitive behavioural therapy aim to help people with depression?

Answer 8

• Aims to identify and challenge the negative automatic thoughts held by individuals,s about themselves and their world.
• Aims to help people become aware of when they make negative interpretations.
• Aims to help people develop alternative ways of thinking and behaving.

Question 9

What are the 4 phases to CBT treatment?

Answer 9

• Initial assessment
• Goal setting
• Identifying negative thoughts and challenging
• Homework