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A Comparison of the Cognitive and Humanistic Approaches to Abnormality. There have been many different ideas about how to recognise and treat psychiatric disorders, and these all tend to have significant differences to other approaches. However, many professionals now combine approaches to offer the best response to each individual clients needs. The cognitive and humanistic approaches have some similarities but also some key differences, and therefore it is possible to compare these approaches. The cognitive approach suggests that mental illness is a result of faulty or overly negative thinking, which then leads into abnormal behaviour patterns and unexplainable mood changes. It suggests that a person with depression is focused on processing information that is concerns with the 'negative triad' rather than positive information. In doing this, negative beliefs are reinforced, which then maintains the depression. The negative triad is a term used to describe that a negative view of the self could be...

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