depression

Cards (11)

  • 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