Key Words

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  • Created on: 06-12-17 20:40
Depression
a mental disorder characterised by low mood and low energy levels
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Behavioural
ways in which people act
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Emotional
ways in which people feel
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Cognitive
refers to the process of thinking - knowing, perceiving, believing
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Obsessive - Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
a condition characterised by obsessions and.or compulsive behaviour
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Behavioural approach
a way of explaining behaviour in terms of what is observable and in terms of learning
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Systematic desensitization
a behavioural therapy designed to gradually reduce phobic anxiety through the principle of classical conditioning.
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Flooding
immediate exposure to a very frightening situation
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Cognitive approach
focus on how our mental processes (e.g. thoughts, perceptions, attention) affect behaviour
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Negative triad
Beck proposed that there were three kinds of negative thinking that contributed to becoming depressed: negative views of the world, the future and the self
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ABC model
Ellis proposed that depression occurs when an activating event (A) triggers an irrational belief (B) which in turn produces a consequence (C), i.e. an emotional response like depression. The key to this process is the irrational belief
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