TREATING DEPRESSION

• WHAT TYPE OF APPROACH IS USED WHEN TREATING DEPRESSION?

  cognitive
• WHAT IS THE TREATMENT FOR DEPRESSION?

  CBT
• WHAT IS CBT?

  cognitive behavioural therapy
• WHAT IS CBT A MIX OF?

  cognitive psychology and behaviourism
• WHAT IS THE AIM OF CBT?

  to challenge negative thoughts and replace them with healthy ones
• WHAT TYPE OF PROGRAMME IS CBT?

  highly structured
• TECHNIQUES USED IN CBT?

  • recognize irrational thoughts
  • provide evidence of events, therapist then challenges
  • client engages in reality testing (taught to be objective when making judgements about a situation)
  • identify situations where negative thinking occurs
• SHORTENED STEPS?

  • recognize irrational thoughts
  • challenge irrational thoughts
  • reality test
  • develop positive feelings
• WHAT IS AN EXAMPLE OF A TYPE OF CBT USED?

  REBT
• WHO DEVELOPED REBT?

  Ellis
• WHAT IS REBT?

  relative emotional behavioural therapy