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Understanding Depression: Cognitive Model and Strategies

Explore how depression results from negative biases in thinking processes, leading to emotional and behavioral symptoms. Learn about the cognitive abnormalities, the depressed cognitive triad, silent assumptions, and faulty thinking strategies.

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Understanding Depression: Cognitive Model and Strategies

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  1. www.psychlotron.org.uk

  2. www.psychlotron.org.uk

  3. Cognition Real World Thinking Perception Information Emotion Behaviour Behaviour The Cognitive Model www.psychlotron.org.uk

  4. Cognition & Depression www.psychlotron.org.uk • Depression results from systematic negative bias in thinking processes • Emotional, behavioural (and physical?) symptoms result from cognitive abnormality • Depressed cognitive triad • Silent assumptions • Faulty thinking strategies

  5. The Self Experiences The Future Depressed Cognitive Triad www.psychlotron.org.uk

  6. Silent Assumptions www.psychlotron.org.uk • Grounding assumptions operating an a semi-conscious level: • ‘I must get people’s approval’ • ‘I must do things perfectly’ • ‘I must always be valued by others’ • ‘The world must be fair and just’

  7. Faulty Thinking www.psychlotron.org.uk • Systematic negative bias in information processing: • Arbitrary inference • Selective thinking • Overgeneralisation • Catastrophising • Personalising • Black and white thinking

  8. Cognition & Depression www.psychlotron.org.uk • Some hypotheses: • Depressed patients think differently to clinically normal people • Changes in thinking precede the onset of depressed mood • Changing thinking patterns can reduce or remove depressed symptoms (NB treatment-aetiology fallacy)

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