Origen de la psicopatología depresiva desde el enfoque cognitivo conductual

Abstract

Depression is a mental illness that has a cognitive, behavioral and emotional impact on humans where the recurrence, time and magnitude of symptoms play an important role; this mental illness is characterized by an intense feeling of sadness, attention deficit and concentration, functional problems such as sleep disturbance and appetite, loss of interest in maintaining a social life, low interest in activities that caused pleasure, rejection of physical and intellectual appearance caused by low self-esteem. In more severe cases it could lead to suicidal ideation attempts. The present essay aims to explain the origin of depressive disorder based on the cognitive behavioral approach, through descriptive research methodology based on the bibliographic review of different scientific sources. In this psychological model, the results indicate that depression originates from three components, the first is called a cognitive triad composed of three elements: negative vision of oneself, negative vision of the future and negative vision of experiences. The second component is called “schemas”, they are models of human thought that receive, construct and encode information, in this component automatic beliefs and thoughts take place. In the third component are the errors in the information processing, basically they are the errors that produce cognitive distortions.