Beck's negative triad

• What did Beck suggest made people more vulnerable to depression?

  Cognitive vulnerabilities
• What three parts are there to cognitive vunerability?

  Faulty information processing, negative self-schema, negative triad
• Negative triad

  A) the world

  B) the future

  C) oneself

  
• What is faulty information processing?

  Where depressed people attend to the negative aspects of a situation and ignore positives
• What is a negative self-schema?

  Where a person interprets all information about themselves in a negative way
• What is the negative triad?

  Where a person develops a dysfunctional view of themselves because of three negative thinking that occur automatically
• What are the three elements to the negative triad?

  Negative view of the world, negative view of the future, negative view of oneself
• Strength: Beck's cognitive model of depression

  What? Research support

  Who? Clark and Beck - cognitive vulnerabilities more common in depressed people; supported by Cohen (predicts depression)

  Why? Association between cognitive vulnerability and depression