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Depression |
A mood or affective disorder. It involves a prolonged and fundamental disturbance of mood and emotion. |
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Emotional characteristics |
•Sadness/lowered mood. •Anger. •Loss of interest or pleasure in usual hobbies or activities. •Lowered self esteem |
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Behavioural characteristics |
•Shift in activity levels,sleep,appetite and aggression. (Reduced or increased) |
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Cognitive characteristics |
•Negative and irrational thoughts. •Poor concentration. •Dwelling on the negative. |
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Cognitive explanations for depression |
Aaron Becks negative triad. Suggests that people create a negative schema leading to self ful filling prophecy. |
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Ellis' ABC model |
A= activating event B= belief C= consequence |
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Evaluation of ABC |
🙂-good supporting evidence ☹️- emotional are not always influenced by thoughts |
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Cognitive behaviour therapy |
CBT aims to change the way a client thinks by challenging irrational thoughts. Focuses on Affect- how client feels Behaviour-how they act Cognition-how they think. |
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Ellis' rational emotional behaviour therapy (REPT) |
A= activating event of adversity B= beliefs about event or adversity C= the emotional consequences D= disputations to challenge irrational beliefs E= effective new believes replace irrational ones F= feelings |
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Evaluation of REPT and CBT |
🙂- it is effective ☹️- may not work for severe cases |
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Advantages of cognitive explanations for depression |
🙂- based on sound experiments research. 🙂- provided effective research for depression. |
