Depression

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  • Depression
    • Characteristics
      • Behavioural
        • Reduced energy - lethargic
        • Disruption to sleep/eating
          • Insomnia or hyper-somnia
        • Aggression + self-harm
        • Irritability
      • Cognitive
        • Poor concentration
        • Absolutist thinking
        • Dwelling on the negative
      • Emotional
        • Lowered mood + self esteem
        • Anger
    • Cognitive approach
      • Beck's negative triad
        • Negative self schemas due to early trauma / unhappy childhood experiences = cognitive distortions
          • NATs - negative automatic thoughts, dysfunctional + unwanted
        • Negative world
        • Negative self
        • Negative future
        • Attributed
          • External / internal
          • Specific / global
          • Stable / unstable
      • ABC model - Ellis
        • A- activating event
        • B - beliefs, irrational
        • C - consequences emotional + behavioural = depression
    • DSM
      • Major depressive (2 weeks - severe)
      • Persistant depressive
      • Disruptive mood - childhood condition, temper outbursts, irritability
      • Premenstrual dysphoric
    • Treatments
      • CBT - Beck's theory
        • Challenge irrational beliefs + negative schema = negative triad, identified, leads to cognitive biases
          • Replace with realistic appraisals
        • Diary - record negative thoughts
          • Reality testing - challenge irrational beliefs, shows positive incidents
            • Homework - small goals, problem solving, relaxation + social skills
      • RET/REBT - rational emotive therapy, ABC model
        • D -dispute irrational beliefs, replace with effective ones
          • E - effect
          • Logical - question logic
          • Empirical - evidence to contradict
        • Homework - identifies own irrational beliefs, probes as wrong, beliefs begin to change

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