A (Activating Event)
- Therapists often divide activating events into two parts:
1)what happened and
2)what the patient perceived happened.
2)what the patient perceived happened.
- Typically, therapists focus only on a few activating events at a time.
- Sometimes previous consequences (C) become activating events.
C (Consequences)
- Sometimes it is difficult for therapists to distinguish between consequences and beliefs.
- Consequences tend to be feelings such as “I feel so stressed out.”
- Feelings cannot be disputed, but beliefs that bring about feelings can.
- Changing beliefs (B) can alter consequences (C).
B (Beliefs)
- Irrational or self-defeating beliefs, rather than self-helping beliefs, are the focus of therapy.
- Changing irrational beliefs can change consequences.
D (Disputing)
- Disputing irrational beliefs is the major therapeutic technique in REBT.
- The following transcript features a therapist using disputation techniques within the A-B-C-D-E model.
Applying the A-B-C-D-E concept
For instance:
A (Activating Event)
Fahmi feel that this semester such sorrow and dark, burden with many assignments, he feel could not achieve the good result in this semester
B (Irrational believe)
He so lazy, much waste time, not reading the books
C (Emotional)
GIVE UP
D (Disputation)
He must aware that examination just around the corner, study smart
E (Effective believe replacing irrational)
trying to get good result more better then past semester
