Topic > Interpersonal Relationships Case Study - 1377

If you don't fit in with a group in high school you feel bad about yourself, if you can't successfully fill all your roles in college, then you feel inadequate and you can do nothing, if you don't look like the model on Instagram you feel fat and ugly and if you've had a failed relationship you feel like no one can love you again because you're not ideal. In a study conducted by Lewinsohn, Gotlib, and Seeley (1995), they found that negative cognitions were a specific functional risk factor for major depressive disorder. They also stated that negative cognitions are important in Beck's (1978) Cognitive Theory of Depression and Abramson and colleagues' Learned Helplessness Model of Depression, both of which relate to major depressive disorder and how it develops. As for Janet, the learned helpless pattern of depression is more present. This model states that a certain person knows that he is helpless in certain situations, so he avoids them. Janet feels like she can't do anything to put her son to bed, so she often gives up and lets him sleep in her bed. He has learned that he is helpless, so he gives in to the situation every time