Depression

Front 1

Describe Beck's cognitive therapy

Back 1

-most widely known theory
-Beck as a psychiatrist was originally trained in psychoanalysis
-he wanted to prove that depression is anger turned toward self/inward. Turns out that clients' anger was not turned toward self but viewed themselves negatively. (I am an idiot. Negative view toward others and future.)

Front 2

Describe cognitive vulnerability and schema

Back 2

-Everybody possesses unique vulnerability and pathology
-bipolar and schizo are genetically related
-depression is related to schema
-schema is a concept of yourself and how the world works. It is developed from childhood
-people around you are more responsible for your schema. (eg, you are a bad kid, and I wish you weren't around you.)
-schema can change, and that's what you want to do in Tx
-Depression rates go up for girls a lot more than boys once they hit puberty
-schema comes from messages whom you are closed to.

Front 3

Functions of schema

Back 3

-schema guide the ways we attend info: you tend to reinforce that behavior and ruminate it.
-they guide the way we interpret and attend to (rejected for a date)
-They guide what you remember in schema congruent and schema consistent manner (you'd be able to list quickly)

Front 4

Schema lies dormant until activated in some way

Back 4

-can be activated by stress in general
-COGNITIVE SHIFT: once maladaptive cognitive schema is activated, you experience cognitive shift
-concept of spreading activation
-You may have that schema but if you schema is never activated,d you may never experience depression

Front 5

Describe sociotropic vs. autonomous

Back 5

-autonomous: value life on external indicators of success (eg, professional success, more value to achievement)
-sociotropic: value relationship more than external indicator (motivated b/c they want to be connected with people. More vulnerable to relationship failures)

Front 6

Describe what happens when you experience cognitive shift

Back 6

-you get cognitive distortions
-as a result you get maladaptive interpretation of events
-your selective attentions to certain data
-you get maladaptive emotions, behavior, phyiologic reactions
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Front 7

What are three types of thoughts when identifying maladaptive beliefs

Back 7

-automatic
-intermediate
-core

Front 8

Fundamental Concepts of Treatment for Depression

Back 8

-Collaborative Empiricism
-Socratic Dialogue
-Guided Discovery