psychopathology

• ELLIS ABC MODEL [COGNITIVE EXPLANATION DEPRESSION]

  how irrational thoughts affects behaviour + emotional state, Activating event, Belief (rational/irrational), Consequence + good mental health = rational thinking   
• BECKS NEGATIVE TRIAD [COGNITIVE EXPLANATION DEPRESSION]

  why others are more vulnerable to depression than others; faulty information processing, negative self schema, negative triad (negative view on: self, world, future) 
• GRAZOLI + TERRY [SUPPORT BECKS NEGATIVE TRIAD]

  65 pregnant woman assessed on cognitive vulnerability + depression before and after birth, high cognitive vulnerability = higher chance of postnatal depression, develop before depression [high reliability]
• LEWIS [BIOLOGICAL APPROACH OCD]

  ocd runs in families (37% had parent with ocd + 21% had siblings with ocd)
• ROSENWIG [SUPPORT TREATMENT OF DEPRESSION] 


  quality of relationship that determines success rather that the technique
• MARCH ET AL [SUPPORT TREATMENT TO DEPRESSION; CBT]


  compared antidepressants + combined use of them

  81% = CBT

  81% = antidepressant

  86% = both

  CBT is just as effective as antidepressants