Cognitive Approach to Abnormality
- Created by: Kylin Hendy
- Created on: 29-04-13 11:56
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- Cognitive Approach to Abnormality
- internal processing
- cognitive structure
- structure used to organise info in the brain
- cognitive process
- the way info is used, either positive or negative
- cognitive content
- the info obtained/already there
- cognitive structure
- suggests that mental illness is the result of the individual's distorted thoughts
- Albert Ellis (1962) - ABC model
- activating event
- belief
- consequence - behaviour
- rational
- healthy emotions
- irrational
- unhealthy emotions
- belief
- activating event
- Beck's model of depression (1979)
- the cognitive triad
- negative schemata of self, world and future
- cognitive biases
- catastrophising
- exaggerating minor setback until it become complete disaster
- over-generalisation
- making sweeping conclusion on basis of single event
- personalising
- taking blame and responsibility for all unpleasant things that happen
- selective abstraction
- drawing conclusion focusing on one element whilst ignoring others
- black and white thinking
- thinking in terms of success and failure
- arbitrary interference
- drawing a conclusion in absence of sufficient evidence
- catastrophising
- cognitive biases
- negative schemata of self, world and future
- the cognitive triad
- evaluation
- empirical evidence present
- Thase et al (2007) compared cognitive therapy to antidepressant medication in treating depression - CT no less effective and more tolerated
- cognitive approach can be proven effective - assumptions must be correct, also gives alternative treatment for depression
- Thase et al (2007) compared cognitive therapy to antidepressant medication in treating depression - CT no less effective and more tolerated
- high success rate when comparing to others
- Smith and Glass (1977) meta-analysis, CT second highest success rate
- consistent with other studies - reliable
- disadvantage - FILE DRAWER EFFECT
- researcher choose which research they want top include so could be bias
- Smith and Glass (1977) meta-analysis, CT second highest success rate
- hard to establish cause and effect
- do thoughts and beliefs cause disturbance or does mental illness cause faulty thinking?
- disadvantage
- people could not be being treated properly
- disadvantage
- do thoughts and beliefs cause disturbance or does mental illness cause faulty thinking?
- depressed people found to give more accurate estimates of likelihood of disaster than normal controls - Alloy and Abrahmson (1979)
- advantage
- disadvantage
- treating people for a problem that is advantageous 'realism'
- empirical evidence present
- internal processing
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