title: [Depression and learned helplessness in humans].
abstract: The learned helplessness hypothesis as a model of human depression is rather unknown in the journals of german language. This article wants to remove that ignorance and make known that experimentalclinical model of depressive behavior. We want further to stimulate empirical and experimental research. In recent advances attributional and cognitive reflections and determinants got important. We introduce these new developments. Depressed persons attribute failures and negative experiences in an internal, global, and stabile way. A problematic cognitive circle develops and depression gets more intensive and chronically. Therapeutical and preventive implications are also discussed.
mesh_terms: D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009042:Motivation; D011613:Psychotherapy
vernacular_title: Depression und Gelernte Hilflosigkeit beim Menschen.