5) Cognitive Approach explaining depression

Question 1

What are the two explanations for depression

Answer 1

• Beck’s negative triad
• Ellis ABC model

Question 2

What does Becks negative triad consist of

Answer 2

• Faulty processing
• Negative self schema
• Negative view of the world, future and self

Question 3

What does Ellis ABC model consist of

Answer 3

• Activating event
• Beliefs (belief we must succeed - musterbation)
• Consequences

Question 4

EV - Supporting research for Becks model

Answer 4

• Clark and Beck conclude cognitive vulnerabilities are more common in depressed people
• Another study followed adolescents, early cognitive vulnerability predicted later depression
• Association with cog vulnerability and depression

Question 5

EV - real world application to screening depression (Becks)

Answer 5

• Assessing cog vulnerability in young people can ensure monitoring
• Understanding cog vulnerability is applied in CBT
• Cognitive vulnerability is useful in clinical practise

Question 6

EV - Ellis ABC model application in treating depression

Answer 6

• Applied to REBT, rational emotive behaviour therapy
• can both change beliefs and relieve symptoms
• has real world value

Question 7

EV - Ellis’s model only explains reactive depression

Answer 7

• one that is triggered by negative activating events
• in many cases not obvious with what triggers depression
• only some cases of depression explainable