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What are the two cognitive approaches to explaining depression?
Beck's negative triad and Ellis' ABC Model
What is Beck's negative triad?
ppl w depression show cog bias, focusing on the neg, absolutist thinking, overgeneralising and catatrophising
also have a neg self schema
divided into:
neg view ab self: I am worthless
neg view of world: everyone is against me
neg view ab future: I am never going to amount to anything

Depression inv developm of neg self-schema, results in individ only focusing on negative, undesirable aspects of themselves
depr person may dev an ineptness schema, believing they will fail at everything they try
may dev a neg self-evaluation schema, constantly reminding themselves of their own worthlessness
What is Ellis' ABC model?
A: Activating event: neg events lead to irrational thoughts + depression
B: Beliefs: your interpretation of event as either irrational/rational
C: Consequence: activating event triggers irrational beliefs there are emotional + behavioural conseq. rational → healthy emotional outcomes, irr → unhealthy emot outcomes such as depression
what are the strengths of the cognitive approach to explaining depression?
+ : rs
+ : PATRL