Cognitive models of a mental health disorder
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What is a cognitive model of a disorder?
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An account of how thinking patterns start a disorder and keep it going.
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Beck's cognitive triad?
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Negative views of the self, the world and the future.
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How does depression keep itself going in Beck's model?
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Negative thought, low mood, withdrawal, fewer good moments, so the thought seems proved.
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Evidence that thinking comes first?
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Longitudinal studies: negative beliefs measured before depression predicted it.
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Main limitation of a cognitive model?
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Negative thinking is also a symptom, and the model leaves out biology.
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