Outline key features of the cognitive approach to psychopathology (6)

Task – answer the question, using your notes, and the prompts below. By answering the prompt questions, you should end up with 6 key points which will answer the question! Obviously, answer the questions as if it was a comprehension task in English!

According to the Cognitive model, abnormal behaviour is due to what? A person traumatised in early life might have what? (and what are these?) According to Beck, what specifically do depressed people have? According to Beck, what else do depressed people have? What is the ABC model according to Beck? What kind of beliefs and consequences do people with abnormalities have?

According to the cognitive model, abnormal behaviour is due to faulty thinking, faulty processing A person traumatised in early life may have negative schemata (these are organised systems of knowledge in memory) Beck suggests that depression is due to 3 negative schemata called the negative triad, which is having negative views of the self, world and the future Beck also suggested that depressed people have errors in their logic

Ellis proposed the ABC model that relates to cognition. i.e. that activating events (A) lead to a belief (B) about the event and as a result there is a consequence (C). People with abnormality have irrational beliefs about events, and as a result have irrational (abnormal) emotions and behaviours.