Beck's Negative Triad

• Becks cognitive theory

  1. faulty information processing
  2. negative self schemas
  3. negative triad
• 1. Faulty information processing

  Selective perception - focusing on the negative

  Magnification - blow small problems up

  Absolutist thinking - 'black and white' thinking
• 2. Negative self schemas

  Schema - mental framework of ideas and info

  When we interpret info about ourselves negatively
• 3. Negative Triad

  Negative views of the world, self and future
• (B) + Research support

  • study with pregnant women linking cognitive vulnerability and depression
• (B) - Results are correlational

  • results of the pregnancy study are correlational which doubts the evidence

  --> overall gives partial support
• (B) + Practical application in CBT

  • forms the basis of CBT as all aspects can be identified and challenged in therapy
• (B) - Doesn't explain all aspects of depression

  • explains basic symptoms but not the complex deeper ones suggesting there may be other explanations