Evaluating approaches to depression

If you were to give a balanced argument about the ability of a psychological approach to explain depression what would you need to include?

• Research evidence• Grounding of the evidence• Grounded commentary on the evidence • General evaluation e.g. causation, usefulness• Strengths/limitations with the approach itself• Is it missing anything? Deterministic?• Other issues and debates- ethics,

nature/nurture.

Evaluation of the cognitive explanation for depression

• Print out the worksheet with all the information from the website.

• Begin with the research evidence – three pieces are relevant and two are not.

• Cut, stick and ground the evidence (make sure you are clear whether it supports or contradicts the approach)

• Add one relevant AO3 comment and ground it to the theory

• Cut and stick the general evaluation of the theory

• You should be left with 3 IDA boxes

• Select two from the three remaining IDA points and write a paragraph merging them together, remembering the So What? and to keep relevance to the cognitive approach to depression, rather than just the cognitive approach or depression