Cognitive Explanations of Depression: Beck's Negative Triad The cognitive approach to explaining depression looks at our 'mental processes' (thoughts, attention, perceptions) and how they af...
Characteristics of Depression Depression is a mood disorder, where the suffering experiences low mood and low energy levels. All forms of depressive disorders are characterised by changes in...
Behavioural Treatments of Phobias: Systematic desensitisation Systematic desensitisation This is the main behaviourist therapy to treat phobias and it is designed to slowly reduce the anxiet...
Behavioural Explanations of Phobias The behaviourist approach explains all behaviour as something that is both observable and learned. When explaining phobias, the behavioural approach is th...
Characteristics of Phobias Phobias are an irrational fear of an object, place or situation that causes a constant avoidance of said object, place or situation. All phobias are characterised ...
Statistical Infrequency Statistical infrequency This definition looks at behaviours through statistics, measuring which behaviours are statistically normal and abnormal Statistics are gather...
Deviation from Ideal Mental Health Deviation from ideal mental health This definition assesses mental health in the same way physical health is assessed Once it is established how individual...
Failure to Function Adequately Failure to function adequately States individuals are abnormal when they are unable to cope with everyday life and this is evident in their behaviour Abnormal ...
Deviation from Social Norms Abnormality has always been incredibly hard to define in psychology. This is down to psychologists being unable to agree on the causes of abnormalities, they disa...
