cognitive approach to abnormality
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- Created on: 31-12-12 10:52
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- cognitive approach to abnormality
- cause:faulty thinking
- black and white thinking
- everything is seen in a polarised manner so even a slight waiver from perfection is considered failure
- overgeneralisation
- when someone arrives at a sweeping conclusion based on a single trivial event
- eg a person with depression may think everyone hates them because one person ignores them once
- when someone arrives at a sweeping conclusion based on a single trivial event
- minimisation of success and maximisatoin of failure
- eg a depressed person may focus on one B in their exams when they got 9 A's
- faulty information processing
- eg in eating disorders the patient may see themselves as overweight when they are actually very thin
- black and white thinking
- evaluation
- weaknesses
- reductionist as social and biological factors are ignored
- cause and effect
- eg people argue rather than depression being caused by negative thinking, negative thinking is caused by depresson
- strength
- implications for treatments
- challenge peoples thought processes
- supporting evidence: anorexic patients
- control group and anorexics given a soft drink and chocolate bar and asked to describe their change in body shape
- control group saw no change
- anorexics said they had put on a substantial amount of weight
- control group and anorexics given a soft drink and chocolate bar and asked to describe their change in body shape
- implications for treatments
- weaknesses
- treatments: cognitive behavioural therapy: REBT
- evaluation
- strengths
- patients have an active role in their therapy
- it is effective with 90% success rate after an average of 27 sessions
- weaknesses
- REBT is judgemental about peoples behaviour
- some irrational beliefs more accurate than others
- it is thought that depressed patients have a more accurate perception of reality than normal people
- strengths
- method
- encourage people to dispute their irrational beliefs
- logical disputing
- does it make sense
- empirical disputing
- is there any evidence
- pragmatic disputing
- is it useful
- evaluation
- cause:faulty thinking
- eg in eating disorders the patient may see themselves as overweight when they are actually very thin
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