Cognitive exp-depression

• Beck’s negative triad (1967)-

  • Faulty information processing – focusing on the negatives (black and white thinking).
  • Negative self-schema – interpret all information about themselves as negative.
  • Negative triad – negative view of the world, negative view of the future, negative view of themselves.
• Becks negative triad (1967)-

  • S- Cohen et al (2019) 47 adolescent development, regular measurements of cognitive vulnerability which was proven to predict later depression.
  • S- Applications in screening and treating depression with clinical practice.
  • W- Only a partial explanation for depression as parts of the aspects of depression aren’t explained (anger).
• Ellis’s ABC model (1962)-

  • Good mental health is due to rational thinking, irrational thinking is the reason for depression.

  A-Activating event- negative events trigger irrational thinking.

  B-Beliefs- must always succeed and achieve perfection.

  C-Consequences- activating event triggers irrational beliefs making emotional/behavioural consequences.
• Ellis’s ABC model (1962)-

  • S- Real world application in the psychological treatment (rational emotive behaviour therapy where a therapist argues lots to change the beliefs of the client, changing the negative beliefs and relieve it the symptoms – David et al 2018)
  • CPS- If used sensitively it can help some depressed people feel better and gain more resilience.
  • CPW- gives responsibility for the depression only to the depressed person.
  • W- Only explains reactive depression due to it focusing on the depression caused by events , not endogenous depression which can’t be linked to life events.