Discuss Beck's cognitive theory of depression.
What will be an ideal response?
Beck's theory is that thinking precedes and causes depression. First, people hold dysfunctional beliefs that predispose them to depression. These are rigid, extreme, and unhelpful beliefs about the world. They create automatic, negative thoughts that center around the cognitive triad-the self, the world, and the future. Negative beliefs and feelings about the triad are maintained by cognitive errors such as all-or-none reasoning and arbitrary inference. This theory has been well supported as an explanation for many aspects of depression, but evidence confirming it as a cause of depression is mixed. GRADING RUBRIC: 10 points.
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