Treating Depression

Question 1

What approach is used to treat depression

Answer 1

The cognitive approach

Question 2

Outline Becks cognitive therapy

Answer 2

• Identify the automatic thoughts (using the negative triad)
• Challenge these thoughts
• Test the reality of these beliefs using evidence that the client provides
• Includes a lot of homework/ work form the client

Question 3

Outline Ellis’s Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy

Answer 3

• Focus on 2 main things = Dispute and Effect
• Dispute and challenge irrational thoughts
• Involves vigorous arguments
• Intends to change the irrational beliefs and break the link between negative life events and depression.
• They dispute by using emperical arguments: using facts or logical arguments: using logic

Question 4

Outline Behavioural activation

Answer 4

• work with the patient to gradually decrease their avoidance & isolation
• increasing their engagement in activities that can increase mood.

Question 5

Strength of CBT

RS

Answer 5

P: Research support

E: March (2007) tested this and found 81% of people improved with just drugs or just therapy BUT 86% of people improved w. CBT with drug therapy

E: TMT CBT is widely seen as the 1st choice of treatment its effective.

Question 6

One weakness of CBT

E

Answer 6

P: Not effective for everyone

E: Not suitable for people w. Server depression or people w. Learning disability as it requires complex rational thought this is not easy for people with learning disabilities

E: TST CBT may only be appropriate for a specific range of people

Question 7

Weakness of CBT

Relapse

Answer 7

P: High relapse rates

E: Studied have shown the results have been short term. Shezhad (2017)
assessed 439 people w. Depression and found that:

42% relapsed within 6 months
53% relapsed within a year

E: TMT CBT may need to be repeated periodically

Question 8

Weakness of CBT

Preference

Answer 8

P: Client preference

E: not all clients want to tackle their issues on this way. E.g  survivors of trauma or people who want their symptom’s  gone asap 
Yo did (2015) found that patients rated CBT their least preferred form of therapy 

E: TMT CBT os not accessible for everyone. Making it not effective as a treatment.