Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Cognitive Theory of Depression..

Cognitive Theories are consideres to be "cognitive" because they deal with mental events such as thinking and feeling. Theorists suggest that depression results from aladaptive, faulty, or irrational cognitions taking the form of distorted thoughts and judgements. Depressive cognition can be learned observationally as is the case when children in a dysfunctional family watch their parents fail to success with stressful experiences or traumatic events.

According to this theory, depressed people think differently than non-depressed people, and it is this difference in thinking that causes them to become depressed. For example, depressed people tend to see everything that sorrounds them, their life and everything that happens in a negative way and blame themselves for something unfortunate that happens to them. This negative thinking and judgment style functions as a negative bias.



http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&id=13006&cn=5

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