1995
DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1995.tb01484.x
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Social and cognitive approaches to depression: Towards a new synthesis

Abstract: A description of a social-cognitive theory of depression is presented which combines the concepts of mental models, personal goals and social roles. An analysis is made of how a number of proposals about the onset of depression can be summarized as the loss of a valued goal or social role in an individual who has few other sources of self-worth. In subsequent sections, limitations of the theory are outlined, and the relationship between the present theory and other theories of depression is briefly considered.

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“…378 Interventions that address this theory therefore seek to equip the woman with self-efficacy so that she is better able to manage such events or difficulties or has multiple strategies by which she might attempt to address them. Increased self-efficacy may be seen in the management of her own symptoms or, more generally, in being able to cope with the practical aspects of motherhood that might otherwise be viewed as difficult or problematic.…”
Section: Results Of Realist Synthesis: What Work For Whom?mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…378 Interventions that address this theory therefore seek to equip the woman with self-efficacy so that she is better able to manage such events or difficulties or has multiple strategies by which she might attempt to address them. Increased self-efficacy may be seen in the management of her own symptoms or, more generally, in being able to cope with the practical aspects of motherhood that might otherwise be viewed as difficult or problematic.…”
Section: Results Of Realist Synthesis: What Work For Whom?mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Depressive symptoms in late life may be manifested in different ways, each of which suggest potential mechanisms for the relation between depression and mortality (37). For example, depressive symptoms can result in cognitive symptoms, such as disturbances in thinking, problem solving, and selfefficacy.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Some of these approaches were developed solely in the clinical context (e.g., Beck, 1976) and therefore show a lack of integration of the most recent advances in cognitive psychology. These clinical-based approaches typically present an inappropriate view of, for example, reasoning in ordinary healthy individuals, and, consequently, can fail to see similarities as well as differences between reasoning in depression and reasoning in non-depressed individuals (see Champion & Power, 1995;Power & Champion, 1986;Power & Wykes, 1996;Quelhas & Power, 1991), or of reasoning in schizophrenia (e.g., Quelhas, 1987). Just to give an example, the idea that healthy non-depressed individuals reason in a logical way (e.g., see proposals by Beck, 1976, in the case of depression; Arieti, 1974 andMatte-Blanco, 1976, in the case of schizophrenia) leads to the incorrect view that reasoning performance by comparison is almost always biased in such patients.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%