Cognitive approach to explaining depression

Beck's theory of depression (1967):

• Depressed people only focus on the negatives and think in balck and white (extremes)
• Sufferers have a negative self-schema so view things about themselves in a negative way
• In the negative triad, a depressed person will have negative views about the world, the self and the future

A03:

Grazoli and Terry assessed 65 pregant women's cognitive vulnerablitity and depression level before and after pregnancy. This is supporting evidence for the theory because they found that the women with a higher cognitive vulnerability had…