The Cognitive Approach to Depression

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  • The Cognitive Approach to Depression
    • Treatment - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
      • It is the most common therapy for depression
      • The therapist builds a relationship between thought, emotion and action
      • Meet a therapist between 5 and 20 times each session will be between 30 and 60 mins
      • The ABC model has been extended to ABCDEF
        • D - Dispute There are three main techniques
          • Logical disputing
            • Does thinking this way make any sense?
          • Empirical disputing
            • Where is the proof that this belief is accurate?
          • Pragmatic disputing
            • How is this belief likely to help me?
        • E - Effect
        • F - Feeling
    • Explanations
      • Ellis (1962)
        • He proposed that good mental health is the result of rational thinking
        • There are common irrational beliefs that sufferers base their life on
        • He proposed the ABC model
          • A - Activating event
          • B - Beliefs that may be rational or irrational
          • C - Consequence of healthy or unhealthy emotions
      • Beck (1967)
        • Beck suggested that people with depression become trapped in a cycle of negative thoughts
        • He proposed the negative triad
          • Negative view of the self
            • Negative view of the world
              • Negative view of the future
                • He proposed the negative triad
                  • Negative view of the self
                    • Negative view of the world
                      • Negative view of the future
        • Alternative Explinations
          • The biological approach suggest that genes and neurotransmitters may cause depression
          • The success of drug therapies suggests that neurotransmitters play a large role
          • Diathesis-stress model

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