Depression And The Cognitive Approach To Explaining Depression Flashcards
What are the different explanations for depression?
Beck’s negative triad
Ellis’s ABC model
What is Beck’s Negative Triad?
A cognitive approach explaining vulnerability to depression through faulty information processing, negative self-schema, and negative views of the world, future, and self.
What are the three parts included in Beck’s Negative Triad?
- Faulty information processing (1)
- Negative self-schema (2)
- Negative views of the world, the future, and the self
1: focusing on the negative, black and white thinking
2: packages of information about the self which isnt good, schemas used to interpret the world
What does Ellis’s ABC model explain?
A cognitive explanation where rational thinking leads to good mental health, while irrational thinking results in anxiety and depression due to it being illogical and unrealistic.
The ABC model consists of Activating events, Beliefs, and Consequences.
What are the components of the ABC model?
- Activating event (1)
- Beliefs (2)
- Consequences (3)
1: an external event is the trigger
2: irrational, thinking we must always achieve, belief that there will be a big disaster if something doesnt go smoothly and that life is always meant to be fair
3: emotional or behavioural suh as depression
Who evidenced strengths of negative triad?
Clark and Beck
Cohen et al
How did Clark and Beck strengthen negative triad?
In their review, cognitive vulnerabilities were common in depressed individuals and often preceded depression.
Cognitive vulnerabilities: when someones thinking predisposes them to depression
How did Cohen et al strengthen negative triad?
tracked 473 adolescents, regularly monitored cognitive vulnerbaility and found that it predicted depression.
Beck’s model is used to screen for and treat depression
Assessing cognitive vulnerability allows identification and monitoring of those at risk
- CBT aims to alter the kind of cognition that makes people vulnerable to depression
What are some limitations of the negative triad?
- Some aspects of depression can’t be explained by cognition
- Some depressed individuals experience hallucinations or delusions
suggest that the negative triad does not encompass all types of depressive experiences.
What is a strength of the ABC model?
It is used in rational emotive behavioral therapy (REBT), where therapists argue with clients to change irrational beliefs.
David et al says REBT can change negative beliefs and relieve depression
What is a limitation of the ABC model concerning types of depression?
It only explains reactive depression and not endogenous depression.
Some forms of depression arent caused by life events and only a partial explanation
