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The Cognitive Model

The Cognitive Model. www.psychlotron.org.uk. Cognitive explanations of EDs: Plenty of evidence to show that thinking processes are biased/distorted in ED sufferers Some evidence (but not all) shows that altering thought processes is an effective treatment

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The Cognitive Model

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  1. The Cognitive Model www.psychlotron.org.uk • Cognitive explanations of EDs: • Plenty of evidence to show that thinking processes are biased/distorted in ED sufferers • Some evidence (but not all) shows that altering thought processes is an effective treatment • Less evidence to show that cognitive biases are the cause of EDs

  2. The Cognitive Model www.psychlotron.org.uk • Issues for evaluation: • Evidence • Direction of causality • Blaming the victim

  3. The Cognitive Model www.psychlotron.org.uk • Evidence • Plenty of research shows that people with psychological disorders have faulty or irrational thinking processes • However…

  4. The Cognitive Model www.psychlotron.org.uk • Not much evidence for the view that faulty thinking precedes other psychological symptoms (cause or effect?) • People who are clinically normal also think irrationally – so what’s the difference? • All the cognitive model does is state the obvious e.g. depressed people think gloomy thoughts. No! Really?

  5. The Cognitive Model www.psychlotron.org.uk • Ethical issues: • By locating psychological problems in faulty thinking processes, the cognitive model sometimes blames the victim • E.g. a person might be depressed because their situation is genuinely dreadful – but the cognitive model implies that the problem is their perceptions

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