TREATING DEPRESSION

• HOW IS DEPRESSION TREATED?

  CBT
• WHAT TYPE OF PROGRAMME IS CBT?

  highly structured
• EXAMPLE OF TYPE OF CBT?

  REBT
• WHAT DOES CBT STAND FOR?

  cognitive behavioural therapy
• METHOD OF CBT?

  1. Patient recognises irrational thoughts
  2. Provides evidence
  3. Therapist challenges thoughts
  4. Patient engages in reality testing (become objective when making judgements)
  5. Recognises negative emotions/ thinking
  6. Replaces with positive
• WHAT MAY BE MORE EFFECTIVE THAN CBT?

  psychoanalysis
• EVALUATION?

  + research support

  + highly structured programme

  + universal

  -not appropriate

  -impractical
• RESEARCH SUPPORT?

  March

  -> compared CBT and drug therapy
• UNIVERSAL?

  different formats
• NOT APPROPRIATE?

  • doesn't tackle cause
  • and not appropriate for severe depression
  • as it patients cannot engage
• IMPRACTICAL?

  expensive and time-consuming