Beck’s Negative Triad

• Beck's Cognitive Triad is based on 3 ideas; Cognitive bias, Negative self-schemas and The negative triad.
• The negative triad: Depressed individuals have negative and irrational views about themselves, the world, and the future.
• Negative self-schemas: Depressed individuals possess negative beliefs about themselves, often stemming from negative experiences.
• Cognitive bias: Depressed individuals focus on the negative aspects of a situation and distort information.
• Arron Beck (1967) created the Negative Triad to explain why some people are more vulnerable to depression.
• A schema is a mental representation in our mind of what is expected, based on our experiences.
• A self-schema is the mental representation a person has of themselves.
• A person with depression will have a negative view of the world; it's not a favourable place to be.
• A person with depression will have a negative view of the self; thinking they are a failure or unworthy of love.
• A person with depression will have a negative view of the future; will not see it getting any better in the future, so what is the point.