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Explaining Depression - Coggle Diagram
Explaining Depression
Overall evaluation
(+) Supported by research: Hammen and Krantz found that depressed participants made more errors in logic when asked to interpret written material than non depressed
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(-) Over simplistic: Low levels of neurotransmitter serotonin is linked to depression and anti depressants such as SSRIs prevent the reabsorption of serotonin which then increases its levels in the synapse.
(+) Emphasis on free will: mainly focuses on the clients cognitions, it may lead the client or therapist to overlook situational factors.
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C - Consequence - rational beliefs leads to healthy emotions where as irrational beliefs lead to unhealthy emotions
Negative Triad
Depressed people have acquired a negative schema during childhood, a tendency to adopt a negative view of the world.
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Negatice chemas lead to systematic cognitive biases in thinking and the negative triad is a pessimistic and irrational view of three key elements in a person's belief system.
Evaluation
(+) Practical Application: CBT focuses disputing irrational thoughts and replacing them with effective, rational beliefs e.g., logical disputing which involves challenging whether the negative thoughts logically follow the facts
(-) Low Explanatory Power: some cases of depression follow activating events, there are other subtypes of depression that arise without any environmental trigger.
Evaluation
(+) Practical Application: Beck's form of CBT reduces the symptoms of depression and is better than anti-depressant drugs preventing a relapse
(-) Low explanatory power: some cases of depression are clearly linked to cognitions there are other cases of depression were people are very angry or experience hallucinations and delusions
Ellis believed that depression results from irrational thoughts which interfere with us being happy and free from pain.
Mustabatory thinking: the source of irrational beliefs lie in mustabatory thinking, thinking that certain ideas or assumptions must be true for an individual to be happy. I MUST BE APPROVED, I MUST DO WELL OR I AM WORTHLESS, THE WORLD MUST GIVE ME HAPPINESS OR I WILL DIE