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?
- Logical disputing
- E - Effect
- F - Feeling
- D - Dispute There are three main techniques
- 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
- Negative view of the future
- Negative view of the world
- Negative view of the self
- He proposed the negative triad
- Negative view of the future
- Negative view of the world
- Negative view of the self
- 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
- Ellis (1962)
- Treatment - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
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