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Clinical Health Psychology

Major Depressive Disorder vs Persistent Depressive Disorder (Dysthymia)

Mood refers to a persistent and long-lasting feeling that a person experiences internally. It impacts the overall behaviour of an individual. Mood disorders are also known as affective disorders. One of the most essential features of mood disorders is changes in the level of emotions, which means they are marked by relative disruption in emotional

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Clinical

The Architecture of Depression: Beck’s Cognitive Triad

Until the 20th century, two competing views of depression dominated clinical understanding:  the psychoanalytic one, where one took a stand as “anger turned inward,” and the behavioural one,  where it was viewed as a byproduct of environmental reinforcement, the only plausible explanation  of the phenomenon as the result of “our environment.”  But in the 1960s,

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