EXPLAINING DEPRESSION

• WHAT METHOD IS USED TO EXPLAIN DEPRESSION?

  cognitive
• WHO PROVIDED EVIDENCE FOR COGNITIVE METHOD?

  Beck and Ellis
• WHAT MODEL DID ELLIS CREATE?

  ABC model
• WHAT DOES ELLIS' ABC MODEL FOCUS ON?

  role of irrational beliefs
• WHAT ARE THE MAIN POINTS OF THE ABC MODEL?

  1. Activating event
  2. Belief
  3. Consequences
• WHAT MODEL DID BECK CREATE?

  Negative Triad
• WHAT DOES BECK'S NEGATIVE TRIAD FOCUS ON?

  role of faulty information processing
• WHAT IS A SCHEMA?

  organised cluster of information
• WHAT IS A SELF-SCHEMA?

  long lasting information cluster about our identity
• WHAT ARE THE MAIN POINTS OF THE NEGATIVE TRIAD?

  • self
  • world
  • future
• EVALUATION?

  + research support

  + real world application

  -low explanatory power

  -fails to consider role of biology
• RESEARCH SUPPORT?

  Grazioli and Terry

  -> studied pregnant women and suggested depression was caused by faulty conditions
• REAL WORLD APPLICATION?

  CBT developed as treatment for depression
• LOW EXPLANATORY POWER?

  doesn't explain reason for faulty cognitions
• FAILS TO CONSIDER ROLE OF BIOLOGY?

  e.g. serotonin/ genes