The cognitive approach to explaining depression, aqa

The
cognitive approach to
explaining depression


Beck ( 1967) Negative traid


Faulty information processing
Beck 619677
suggested that some
people are more
prone to depression because
of faulty information processing ie
thinking in a
flawed way
.
.




When depressed people attend to the
negative aspects of a situation t
ignore positives ,
they also tend to blow small
problems out of
'

proportion in black and White
'
+ think terms .




Depressed people have
negative self
-
schema


A
information through experience interpret
' '
schema and to the so
is a
package of
ideas
developed we use schema word ,
if a
person
.




has a
negative self -
schema
they interpret all
information about themselves in a
negative way
.




The
negative traia


There 3
are elements to the
negative raid :



negative view world
-


the
of
view
•




negative of the
future
negative view
-




of the
self .




Ellis C. 1962) ABC model

A -


activating event


Ellis suggested that depression arises irrational
from thoughts
.




According to Ellis depression occurs when we
experience negative events
eg gaining
: an
important test




B-
beliefs
Negative events
trigger irrational beliefs eg :




ellis
belief succeed
-



called the that we must
always muster nation


l stand it itis is the
belief that its
go smoothly
'


cant disaster dont
a when
things
-
- - -




just
'




utopianism is the
belief that the world must
always be
fair and .




C-
consequences
when an irrational beliefs there emotional and behavioural
activating event
triggers
are con
segues .




For example ,
if you believe
you must
always svceedt then
you fail
at
something , the
consequence is depression