Aetiologies of Depression
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- Aetiologies of Depression
- Biological
- Genes
- Twin Studies
- McGuffin et al
- Studies 177 twins with depression. Found 46% MZ and 20%DZ concordance between the twins
- Shows some heredity evidence for depression
- Not solely due to genes
- Shows some heredity evidence for depression
- Studies 177 twins with depression. Found 46% MZ and 20%DZ concordance between the twins
- McGuffin et al
- Family Studies
- Gershon
- Those with a first degree relative were 2 to 3 times higher than the general population
- Same enviromental factors are at play, cannot deduce which is the cause of depression
- Twin Studies
- McGuffin et al
- Studies 177 twins with depression. Found 46% MZ and 20%DZ concordance between the twins
- Shows some heredity evidence for depression
- Not solely due to genes
- Shows some heredity evidence for depression
- Studies 177 twins with depression. Found 46% MZ and 20%DZ concordance between the twins
- McGuffin et al
- Twin Studies
- Same stressful life events will also affect you
- Lack of reduced care on an individual because of another's depression can trigger it.
- Gershon
- Adoption Studies
- Wender
- Biological relatives of adopted sufferers seven times more likely to have major depression themselves
- Wender
- Twin Studies
- Genes
- Psychological
- Psychodynamic
- Freud
- Depression is like grief in that it often occurs through the loss of an important relationship
- Repressed anger towards loss of person is directed through innerself.
- Reduces self esteem and cbecomes vulnerable to depression in future
- Actual losses and symbolic losses
- Depression is like grief in that it often occurs through the loss of an important relationship
- Repressed anger towards loss of person is directed through innerself.
- Reduces self esteem and cbecomes vulnerable to depression in future
- Actual losses and symbolic losses
- Repressed anger towards loss of person is directed through innerself.
- Depression is like grief in that it often occurs through the loss of an important relationship
- Repressed anger towards loss of person is directed through innerself.
- Depression is like grief in that it often occurs through the loss of an important relationship
- Shah and Waller
- Those with depression described parents as affectionless
- Depression could have created distorted thinking
- Those with depression described parents as affectionless
- Bifulco
- Women who had lost their mother as a child were more likely to suffer anxiety and depression as adults
- Loss of parent could cause depression. Or stress.
- Women who had lost their mother as a child were more likely to suffer anxiety and depression as adults
- Evaluation
- Beck and Ward
- Found no evidence of depression in dreams
- Weissman
- Opposed Freud's theory by finding depressed people express anger towards others
- Cannot account for good childhoods and age differences,
- Beck and Ward
- Freud
- Cognitive
- Learned Helplessness
- Seligman
- Developed Theory through Dogs
- A person develops sense of helplessness after period of no control. Even after period they believe they are still helpless
- Developed by Abramson
- Lewinsohn
- Teenagers with strong negative attributions were more likely to develop major depression
- Seligman
- Beck's Theory of Depression
- If we have a negative self schema, anything about our selves will be interpreted negatively.
- Evaluation
- Do negative thoughts lead to depression or depression lead to negative thoughts
- Lewinsohn
- Prospective study found no relationship between negative thoughts and irrational beliefs and future depression
- Lewinsohn
- Nolen-Hoeksma et al
- Negative attribution style in older children predicted later depression
- Negative thoughts may make people vulnerable to depression. Still need environmental trigger
- Negative attribution style in older children predicted later depression
- Cannot deduce cognitive factors to be cause of depression just because of successfulness of therapies. Treatment-Aetoliogy fallacy.
- Do negative thoughts lead to depression or depression lead to negative thoughts
- Learned Helplessness
- Psychodynamic
- Diatheis Stress Model
- Kendler
- Co-twins of those with depression more likely to contract the disiese because of the similar vulnerable genetics
- Willhelm
- Individuals who had the short-short form of serotonin transporter gene
- Kendler
- Biological
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