Psychopathology - explaining depression

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    • Cognitive approach

      Focus on how mental processes affect behaviour, in particular how negative or maladaptive biases in thinking lead to depression
    • People with depression
      • Often show cognitive distortions, faulty information processing and negative thinking
      • Cognitive psychologists believe these thinking patterns are the cause rather than symptoms of depression
    • Beck's Cognitive Theory of Depression
      Suggests a cognitive approach to explaining why some people are more vulnerable to depression
    • Ellis's ABC Model

      Suggests a cognitive explanation of depression based on irrational thinking
    • Beck's Cognitive Theory of Depression
      1. Faulty information processing/thinking
      2. Negative self-schemas
      3. Negative/Cognitive Triad
    • Faulty information processing/thinking
      Faulty thinking, negative or unrealistic ideas
    • Negative self-schemas
      Patterns of maladaptive behaviour and thoughts and beliefs (e.g., always expecting to fail)
    • Negative/Cognitive Triad
      • Negative view of the world
      • Negative view of the future
      • Negative view of the self
    • Ellis's ABC Model
      Activating events (A) have consequences (C) affected by beliefs (B)
    • Irrational beliefs
      Beliefs that interfere with being happy and free of pain
    • Irrational beliefs
      • Musturbation
      • I-can't-stand-it-itis
      • Utopianism
    • Mustabatory thinking
      Thinking that certain ideas or assumptions must be true for an individual to be happy
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