treatments of depression

Question 1

what approach is used to treat depression

Answer 1

cognitive approach

Question 2

what are the 4 ways depression can be treated

Answer 2

• cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
• Becks cognitive therapy
• Elli’s rational emotive behavioural therapy (REBT)
• behavioural activation

Question 3

what therapy is the most common treatment for depression

Answer 3

cognitive behavioural therapy

Question 4

process of CBT

Answer 4

• assessment in which patient and cognitive therapist work together to clarify patients problems
• jointly identify goals for therapy and put together plan to achieve them

Question 5

what does CBT work towards

Answer 5

CBT works towards changing negative and irrational thoughts and putting effective behaviours in place

Question 6

what does Becks cognitive therapy involve

Answer 6

• identify automatic thoughts about self, world and future
• once identified thoughts must be challenged
• using ‘patient as scientist’ where individuals set homework to write down when enjoyed event or someone was nice to them - in future when patient states noone is nice the therapist can produce evidence and use it to prove patients statements as incorrect

Question 7

what does cognitive therapy aim towards

Answer 7

aims to help patients test reality of their negative thoughts

Question 8

outline what REBT is

Answer 8

REBT extends the ABC model to ABCDE
- A means ‘activating event’
- B means ‘Beliefs’
- C means ‘consequences’
- D means ‘ dispute’
- E means ‘ effort’

Question 9

what is the central technique for REBT

Answer 9

identify and dispute irrational thoughts

Question 10

what is used in rational emotive behavioural therapy to dispute irrational thoughts

Answer 10

vigorous arguments

Question 11

why are vigorous arguments used in REBT

Answer 11

intended effect is to change irrational belief and break link between negative life events and depression

Question 12

TRUE or FALSE - Ellis identified different methods of disputing to be used in REBT

Answer 12

TRUE

Question 13

what were the different ways of disputing created by Ellis to be used in REBT

Answer 13

• empirical argument
• logical argument

Question 14

define empirical argument

Answer 14

disputing whether there is actual evidence to support negative beliefs

Question 15

define logical argument

Answer 15

disputing whether the negative thought logically follows from the facts

Question 16

what does behavioral activation help when treating depression

Answer 16

• works alongside cog aspects of CBT, encouraging depressive patient to be more active and engage in enjoyable activities

Question 17

what will behavioural activation provide for treatment of depression

Answer 17

will provide more evidence for the irrational nature of beliefs