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Research support Type: Strength Study: Ellis 1957 Claimed 90% success rate for REBT Average of 27 sessions to complete However recognised that treatment was not always successful R...
Support for the role of irrational thinking Type: Limitation Study: Hammen and Krantz 1976 Found that depressed participants made more errors in logic when asked to interpret writt...
Systematic Desensitisation Widely applicable Type: Strength Study: McGrath et al. 1990 Reported that 75% of patients with phobias responded More likely to be successful if patients...
Genetic Explanations Individuals inherit specific genes from their parents that are related to OCD. | COMT variation | Higher levels of dopamine | | | | | SERT mutation | Lower lev...
Arron Beck's Negative Triad outlined that individuals become depressed due to a biased thinking towards negative interpretations of the world. Negative Triad Negative Schema info U...
Both Beck's Negative Triad and Ellis' ABC Model take the cognitive approach when treating depression. Treating Depression Ellis' ABC Model 1962 Treating Depression Beck's Negative...
Albert Ellis proposed that the key to mental disorders such as depression lay in irrational beliefs Model A ctivating Event B elief may be rational or irrational 'The company was o...
The behavioural approach focuses around the idea that the phobia is due to classical conditioning and therefore training the human body to react differently to it by either gradual...