Outline a cognitive approaches to explaining depression, with reference to who founded it and examples to explore their ideas.

Beck's negative triad focuses on negative schemas, maladaptive frameworks of understanding, that create cognitive biases which then lead to feeling of depression and lack of control. The triad includes biases about ' The self', 'The world', and 'The Future'. Biases towards oneself include thoughts and feelings of worthlessness, unattractiveness and a disproportional attitude towards one's insufficiencies. Biases about the world may be thoughts about how the world is out to get you, that nothing ever goes ones way, and that nothing one can do can help. Lastly, biases about the world serve to cement these ideas; that none of this will change, that life wont get better, or that things will get worse.

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