becks cogntive triad

• During early life we develop schemas based on ourexperience
• Negative experiences can lead to the development ofdysfunctional beliefs about the world
• Once thenegative schema is activated this leads to a stream of whatBeck described as negative automatic thoughts (NATs)
• it is negative thoughts that lead to distortions or biases
• becks cogntive triad consists of negative views about the world future and oneself
• Research in cognition and emotion has led to application intherapy and clinical psychology – eg. Cognitive therapies andCBT
• Cognitive therapies work to try and change these cognitivebiases and maladaptive thinking patterns it is a form of emotional regulation
• as information processing in depression patients can be determined by their cognitive structures
• Emotion regulation can be defined as “a set of processes toredirect the spontaneous flow of emotions e.g muscle relaxing eating and exercising