Treatments For Depression (Psychopathology) Flashcards
What is the idea of CBT
To identify negative thoughts about the world, self and future. These thoughts are then challenged in therapy.
What is the aim of CBT
Help the client identify their negative irrational thoughts and replace them with more positive rational thinking
How does completing homework between sessions help patients
Could be asked to recored when they enjoyed an event or someone was nice to them
This can be used as evidence in future sessions to challenge their negative thoughts and prove the patient wrong
What is behavioural activation
Patients encouraged to take parts in more actives like going out as a friend or gym as these can lead to rewards
Provide more evidence for the irrational nature of an individual’s beliefs
What is the cognitive element of CBT
Understanding the patients current ways of thinking
What is the behavioural element of CBT
Understading behaviour and enhance pleasurable/productive experiences, establish routines and increase problem solving skills
What is Ellis’s rational emotive behaviour therapy (REBT)
-Based on his ABC model.
-Ellis believed that depression occurred due to irrational beliefs and this could be cured if the irrational belief was replaced by a rational one
-REBT aims to change the irrational belief and to
break the link between negative life events and depression
What does DEF stand for
D - Disputing irrational thoughts and beliefs
E - Effects of disputing and effective attitude to life
F - Feelings that are produced
What is logical disputing
Self defeating beliefs that do not follow logically from the information available
Does thinking this way make sense?
What is empirical disputing
Self defeating beliefs may not be consistent with reality
where is the proof that this is accurate
What is pragmatic disputing
Emphasises the lack of usefulness of self defeating beliefs
how is the belief likely to help me
What are the effects of disputing
-Changes irrational believes into more rational ones
-Client can move from catastrophic to rational interpretations of events
-Helps client feeling better and self accepting
What are the strengths of treatments for depression
research support - March et al compared effects of CBT with antidepressant drugs + a combination of the two in 327 adolescents with depression
-Found that after 36 weeks 81% of CBT group, 81% of antidepressant group + 86% of combined group were significantly improved - shows how CBT is just as effective than other methods
Economic Implications - if research shows people with depression is less likely to relapse after cognitive therapy then even though it is initially more expensive then drug therapy - in the long term more economically beneficial as people would have less time off work
What are the weaknesses of treatment for depression
CBT not suitable for everyone - e.g those with regid + resistant irrational beliefs - takes cognitive effort
**alternative treatments* e.g antidepressants -CBT can be time consuming and expensive - drug therapies require less effort and time consuming - people are more likely to be able to commit to it.
