Cognitive Approach to Psychopathology

The Cognitive Approach to Psychopathology

The Cognitive approach assumes that people's thoughts direct their emotions and behaviour. Mental disorders result from ittational and negative cognitions. Links to generalisation. 

1) SELF -> WORLD -> FUTURE

A person believes she/he is worthless and this leads to feelings of depression in the future.(Bias)

2) Automatic Errors:

A "SCHEMA" is an information store of previous knowledge and experience". A child will change their schema to adapt to events and experiences. As a person, we can reach an equilibrium to make us happy - if what we see matches what we know…