A Case Study of Life Depression

This is a case study of sub-conscious brain.

1. The path from cognition to affect, motivation, and behavior

2. Negative emotions are clinical symptoms to be reduced through modified thoughts

3. The patient must be socialized to the cognitive therapy model

4. Monitoring and modification of automatic thoughts, assumptions, and beliefs

5. Affect regulation and problems solving techniques

6. CBT use for depression treatment

7. Negative cognition affects mood

8. Depression is linked to faulty interpretations of life events

9. Depression is linked to negative beliefs about the self, the world, and the future

10. Depression is linked to a tendency to dwell on negative beliefs

11. CBT considers emotions as well as thoughts

12. CBT for depression relies on establishing connections between negative emotions and antecedent thoughts

B. Emotion-focused theory of treatment

2. Emotion schemes are cognitive, affective, motivational-behavioral networks which produce emotional experience and meaning

3. Emotional experience and meaning are related to well-being

4. Emotional schemes need to be uncovered with attention to memory of past events and their connection to body states

5. Treatment may involve desensitization in-vivo and problem solving to deal with emotions that are activated during the arousal of emotional memories

6. Treatment also involves cognitive restructuring associated with past and current situations

1. Bowlby's attachment or object relations theory

2. Internal objects are the working models

3. Emotion is basic in attachment and object seeking