The Cognitive approach to explaining Depression

Question 1

What is the cognitive approach?

Answer 1

The cognitive approach links psychological disorders such as: depression to dysfunctional thinking or irrational thinking.

Question 2

What did Aaron Beck (1921-2022) do?

Answer 2

*Founder of CBT,
*Faulty information processing - Negative bias

Question 3

What are the examples of faulty thinking?

Answer 3

Overgeneralisation - something small to something huge
Absolutist thinking - ‘good or bad’, no middle

Question 4

What is a schema?

Answer 4

A mental representation of knowledge which helps individuals process information and navigate the world.

Question 5

What was Beck’s cognitive explanations?

Answer 5

A negative schema usually links to depression
If a childhood is developed around a negative framework - views the world in a negative way

Question 6

What was Beck’s Negative Triad?

Answer 6

1. World - Impression there is no hope anywhere
2. Future - Furthers hopelessness and worsens depression
3. Self - Enhances depressive feelings , conform low self-esteem

Question 7

What is Irrational thinking?

Answer 7

Our interpretation to events, the situation

Question 8

What is Ellis’s ABC model?

Answer 8

A - is and Activation event
B - is the Belief which may be rational or irrational
C - is the Consequence

Question 9

What is Mustabatory thinking?

Answer 9

The idea that something is a ‘must’ (irrational beliefs)