The cognitive approach to treating depression - CBT
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- Created on: 21-03-18 13:06
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- Cognitive behaviour therapy
- CBT: Beck's cognitive therapy
- Aims to help patients test the reality of their negative beliefs
- Idea is to identify automatic thoughts about the world, the self and the future (negative triad)
- Once identified these thoughts must be challenged (central component of the therapy)
- Might set homework such as record an event where someone was nice to you
- Therapist can produce evidence (homework) to prove negative thoughts incorrect
- CBT: Ellis's rational emotive behaviour therapy (REBT)
- Extends the ABC model to ABCDE (D-dispute, E-effect)
- Central technique is to identify and dispute irrational thoughts
- Could involve a vigorous argument (hallmark)
- Intended result is to change the irrational belief and to break the link between negative life events and depression
- Ellis identified different methods of disputing
- Empirical argument: disputing whether there is evidence to support negative belief
- Logical argument: disputing whether the negative thought logically follows from the facts
- Behavioural activation
- Therapist may also work to encourage a depressed patient to be more active and engage in enjoyable activities
- This will provide more evidence for the irrational nature of beliefs
- Most commonly used psychological treatment for depression and a range of mental health problems
- Begins with an assessment in which the patient and therapist work together to clarify a patient's problems
- Jointly identify goals for the therapy and put together a plan to achieve them
- One of the central tasks is to identify where there might be negative or irrational thougts that will benefit from challege
- Then involves working to change negative or irrational thoughts and put more effective behaviours into place
- Some CBT therapists do this using techniques purely from Beck's cognitive therapy while some rely of Ellis's REBT. Most draw on both
- CBT: Beck's cognitive therapy
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