the cognitive approach to psychopathology
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- Created on: 12-04-15 16:29
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- The Cognitive Approach
- Abnormality is caused by faulty thinking
- Mental illness is the result of cognitive distortions in the way a person thinks about a problem
- Faulty and irrational thinking prevents the individual behaving adaptively
- The A-B-C model (Ellis, 1962)
- A - refers to an activating event (sight of a large dog)
- B - is the belief, which may be rational (dog is harmless)or irrational (dog will attack me)
- C - consequence rational beliefs lead to healthy emotions and irrational beliefs lead to unhealthy emotions
- The individual is in control
- The cognitive model portrays the individual as being the cause of their own behaviour - unlike the other three models
- Evaluation
- Blames the patient - so therefore overlooks situational factors, such as life stressors
- Consequence rather than cause - do maladaptive thoughts cause mental disorder, or does mental disorder lead to faulty thinking
- Irrational beliefs may be realistic - Alloy and Abrahmson suggest that many people with depression actually have a more realistic view of the world
- Abnormality is caused by faulty thinking
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