depression (cog expl)

• mood disorder where individuals loses interest in regular activities
• cognitive characteristics

  • low self esteem
  • worthless
• emotional characteristics

  • guilt
  • sad
  • angry
• behavioural characteristics

  • sleeping and eating patterns
• ellis abc model

  • a - activating event (acts as a trigger)
  • b - belief (rational/irrational) - leads to mustabatory thinking (thinking that assumptions must be true to be happy
  • c - consequences
• negative triad - beck

  • childhood trauma leads to negative schemas (negative views of events)
  • systematic negative bias
  • triggered when similar situations are encountered
  • leads to negative triad (negative views of self, others and world)
• ✔️development of cbt
• X reductionist - reduces depression down to irrational thoughts
• X relies on inferences - reduces scientific merit
• ✔️ supports monotropic theory, iwm, continuity hypothesis