Anxiety and Depression: The Adaptive Emotions

Coelho, George V.

doi:10.1097/00005053-197809000-00019

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“…It is likely that the mood -* reduced reinforcer effectiveness sequence also holds true for depressed persons. Costello (1976) has previously suggested such a link. One cognitive theorist has rejected it as implausible (Seligman, 1978), and the dominant models of depression tend to treat affect as a consequence of cognitive-perceptual processes rather than a possible antecedent (Beck, 1974).…”

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Social confirmation of dysphoria: Shared and private reactions to depression.

Strack¹,

Coyne²

1983

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Social responses to dysphoria were investigated. Subjects conversed for 15 minutes with persons selected on the basis of the presence or absence of depressed mood. Following the conversations, mood measures were administered along with social perception questionnaires that were described as either being confidential or to be shared with the other person. Subjects who interacted with depressed persons were anxious, depressed, and hostile, and the subjects rejected them. Contrary to predictions, subjects were willing to share their negative responses with the depressed persons. The depressed persons correctly anticipated rejection and reciprocated. The authors argue that cognitive models of depression need to be integrated with a conception of the social environment as being active and responsive. Judgments of cognitive distortion cannot be made without an understanding of the feedback typically available from the social environment.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 89%

Social confirmation of dysphoria: Shared and private reactions to depression.

Strack¹,

Coyne²

1983

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

220

166

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“…The problem of comorbidity is not limited to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM; American Psychiatric Association, 2013), nor even necessarily to categorical taxonomies (though the term implies discrete disease states). For instance, the strong, positive correlation between depression and anxiety is a well-known and well-established phenomenon shown to manifest across clinical and nonclinical populations and between both categorical and dimensional representations (Brown, Chorpita, & Barlow, 1998;Clark & Watson, 1991;Clark, Watson, & Mineka, 1994;Costello, 1976;Dobson, 1985a, Dobson, 1985bGotlib, 1984;Mineka, Watson, & Clark, 1998;Watson & Clark, 1984;Watson, Clark, & Carey, 1988). It has been argued that the covariance between mood and anxiety-at both dimensional and categorical levels of analysis-is due to underlying hierarchical constructs such as negative affectivity and neuroticism (cf.…”

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Enhancing the Personalization of Psychotherapy With Dynamic Assessment and Modeling

2016

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Clinicians have long recognized the importance of tailoring psychotherapy interventions to the needs and characteristics of the individual patient. However, traditional approaches to clinical assessment, service delivery, and intervention research have not been conducive to such personalization. Contrary to traditional nomothetic approaches, idiographic assessment and modeling of intraindividual dynamic processes holds tremendous promise for tailoring the implementation of psychotherapy to the individual patient. In this article, we (a) present an argument for assessing person-specific dynamics, (b) provide a detailed description of a method that harnesses person-specific dynamic assessment and modeling for use in routine psychotherapy,

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“…The theorist who has most clearly made the case for depression as an agent of stasis, if not of homeostasis, is Costello (1976), who sees the function of depression as maintaining the status quo. If mood is pervasive, depression lowers all incentives equally, so that a failing incentive is less likely to be replaced by another.…”

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Change or homeostasis? A systems theory approach to depression

Price

1991

British Journal of Medical Psychology

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Looking at the onset of depressive states in linear terms, there is often a problem of distinguishing cause and effect: did the adverse life-events cause the depression, or did the depression cause the adverse life-events? If we abandon linear thinking and look at depression in systemic terms, the problem of cause and effect disappears, but it is replaced by another problem: is the patient/environment system characterized by homeostasis or change? Some depressed patients seem to be spiralling down towards disaster. Others seem to be stuck in a rut. In systems terms, can depression be at the same time an agent of change and an agent of stasis (or even homeostasis)? The paradox can be resolved if we postulate that the function of depression is to reconcile the individual to an involuntarily subordinate social role; depression which reconciles to a pre-existing subordinate position has static properties; depression which mediates a switch to a subordinate position from a previously dominant position has properties of systemic change.

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Anxiety and Depression: The Adaptive Emotions

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Social confirmation of dysphoria: Shared and private reactions to depression.

Social confirmation of dysphoria: Shared and private reactions to depression.

Enhancing the Personalization of Psychotherapy With Dynamic Assessment and Modeling

Change or homeostasis? A systems theory approach to depression

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