depression

• Depression is described as a mood disorder
• behavioural characteristics of depression:

  • changes in sleep
  • aggression and self harm
• emotional characteristics of depression:

  • low mood
  • poor self esteem
• cognitive characteristics of depression:

  • poor concentration
  • dwelling on the negative (negative schema)
• The main assumption of depression is that it is caused by faulty thinking, negative and irrational thoughts.
• Ellis’s ABC model

  A - activating event

  B - belief

  C - consequence of belief
• Becks negative triad, negative view of:

  • self
  • world
  • future
• Evaluations of cognitive explanations of depression:

  🙂 practical application

  🙂 empirical evidence

  ☹️ issues with causality

  ☹️ too simple
• Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy

  1. identification of irrational thoughts
  2. disputing belief system
  3. rational confrontations
• Types of disputing:

  • logical
  • empirical
  • pragmatic
• Evaluations of CBT:

  🙂 evidence to support

  🙂 economic implications

  ☹️ not effective for severe patients

  ☹️ comparison to other treatments