Plan de intervención psicológica desde el enfoque cognitivo-conductual para la depresión

Abstract

The objective of the following essay is to adapt a therapeutic plan to improve the emotional state in depression based on the Aaron Beck model. Depression is a disease that presents a combination of different cognitive, behavioral and somatic symptoms. This pathology occurs mostly in women than in men; most often occurs between 18 and 29 years of age. The risk factors associated with this problem are: being a woman, isolation, economic difficulties, exposure to traumas, stressful experiences, personal history of other mental health problems, family history, drug use, interpersonal and marital problems, among others. Beck's cognitive model explains depression as the result of the person's evaluations of their experiences; this model summarizes it in cognitive schemas, which are cognitive structures that organize information; cognitive triad which consists in having a negative vision of oneself, of the future and of the world; and the processing of information, which is about cognitive biases among which generalization, selective abstraction, personalization, maximization, absolutism. We propose an intervention plan with a cognitive behavioral approach based on scientific evidence that helps to increase pleasurable activities, decrease distorted thoughts and develop coping skills in the face of this problem.