Cognitive Therapy for Depression
- 1 March 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Vol. 16 (1), 58-73
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167290161005
Abstract
The development of cognitive therapy, one of the most promising interventions for the treatment of depression and other nonpsychotic disorders, has been strongly influenced by basic research in social and cognitive psychology. The approach is predicated on a two-factor cognitive theory of emotion and accords a central role to the operation of schematic knowledge structures and information-processing heuristics. Procedures designed to produce change in existing depresotypic beliefs are grounded in principles emerging from that basic literature, and strategies derived from attribution theory appear to contribute to the apparent capacity of cognitive therapy to prevent the emergence of future depressive episodes. Clearly, the development and articulation of cognitive therapy have benefited greatly from basic research in experimental social and cognitive psychology.Keywords
This publication has 53 references indexed in Scilit:
- On second thought: Where the action is in cognitive therapy for depressionCognitive Therapy and Research, 1989
- Attributional style in depression: A meta-analytic review.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1986
- Is memory schematic?Psychological Bulletin, 1983
- Confidence in judgment: Persistence of the illusion of validity.Psychological Review, 1978
- The knew-it-all-along effect.Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1978
- Learned helplessness in humans: Critique and reformulation.Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1978
- Comparative efficacy of cognitive therapy and pharmacotherapy in the treatment of depressed outpatientsCognitive Therapy and Research, 1977
- Hindsight is not equal to foresight: The effect of outcome knowledge on judgment under uncertainty.Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1975
- Psychological deficit in depression.Psychological Bulletin, 1975
- Cognitive, social, and physiological determinants of emotional state.Psychological Review, 1962