depression cognitive strengths

• Cognitive explanations have led to the development of effective treatments / therapies​ – including cognitive behavioral therapy CBT and rational emotive behavior therapy REBT which was developed in Ellis’s ABC model. – they attempt to identify anc challenge negative irrational thought and have been incredibly successful to treat depression – Lipsky who found changing a persons negative irrational decision reduced depression
• There is research evidence which supports the cognitive explanation of depression. Boury et al. (2001) found that patients with depression were more likely to misinterpret information negatively (cognitive bias) and feel hopeless about their future (cognitive triad). Further to this, Bates et al. (1999) gave depressed patients negative automatic though statements to read and found that their symptoms became worse. These findings support different components of Beck’s theory and the idea that negative thinking is involved in depression.​