Cognitive approach treating depression Flashcards
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How is depression treated ?
Cognitive behavioural therapy
What is CBT ?
a method for treating mental disorders based on cognitive and behavioural techniques.
Cognitive - deal with thinking and negative thoughts
What are irrational thoughts ?
Thoughts that are likely to interfere with a person’s happiness
How does CBT work ? 1
It begins with an assessment in which the patient and the cognitive behavioural therapist work together to clarify the patients problems.
What does the patient and therapist do ?
They jointly identify goals for therapy and put together a plan to achieve them.
What tasks are involved in CBT ?
- Identify where there might be negative or irrational thoughts that will benefit from challenge
What else does CBT involve ?
How does it help ?
Working to change negative and irrational thoughts and finally put more effective behaviours in place.
What are the two types of therapies ?
Beck’s cognitive therapy
Ellis’s rational emotive behaviour therapy
What is the idea behind beck’s CBT ?
It is to identify automatic thoughts about the world ,the self and the future (negative triad).
-Once identified these thoughts must be challenged.
How can cognitive therapy help patients ?
-It aims to help patients test the reality of their negative beliefs.
-They may set homework such as record when they enjoyed an event.
What may patients be seen as ?
Patients as scientist ; investigating in reality of their negative beliefs in the way a scientist would.In future sessions if patients say that noone is nice to them or there is no point in going to events - the therapist can produce this evidence and use it to prove the patients statements are incorrect.
What was Ellis’s therapy called ?
Ellis’s rational emotive behaviour therapy (REBT)
How does REBT extend the ABC model :
ABCDE model ;
Dispute
Effects.
REBT - to identify and dispute irrational challenge.
EG. of REBT :
A patient might talk about unlucky they have been or how unfair things seem.
What would a REBT therapist identify :
Eg of Utopianism and challenge this as an irrational belief.
