Actions and behavior: how did we choose to react to the emotions that was evoked? We got angry because of our automatic believes, thus we raise our voice, fight or become mean for example.Emotions and feelings: what did the stimulus trigger within ourselves? What kind of conclusion did we come up with? Are we angry? etc.Stimulus: what caused a certain thought or belief to trigger. The ABC cognitive behavioral therapy works because of the simple premise that we think and act, roughly in four mental steps: This is where Cognitive Behavioral Therapy comes in, to slowly re-learn and re-adjust the believes. But instead, due to our automatic believes, we will directly judge and generalize. You are faced with another rich person that does not necessarily exhibit haughtiness or disrespect. That belief may have been true in the past when you formulated it, but today the situation is different. You then come to a conclusion that all rich people are snobby and disrespectful / full of themselves. To some extent, one can say that our interpretations and views are constructed based on original believes, acquired believes (society, friends, family, peers, media, etc.) or well thought and learned believes.Īfter we form a certain belief, or judgement, the next time we encounter a situation (or a stimulus), we don’t think and reevaluate the situation again, instead we rely on the automatic thoughts that we previously formulated.Īutomatic thoughts, do not have to be based on reality, instead they could be formulated based on preconceptions or various negative situations and then we tend to generalize and believe the generalization.įor example: you have been treated badly many times by rich people. Since our early age, we start to formulate our own interpretations and view of the world (and all the interactions that happen therein). The moment I learned about this model and understood how to apply it, it became an important tool in my daily life. This model can help one think and act more rationally, thus lead a stress free life. It is developed by one of the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) founders: Albert Ellis, PhD. It is called the “A-B-C-D Model” or simply the “ABC cognitive model”. I am not a psychologist, but recently I learned about an interesting tool that can help one enhance their cognitive behavior.
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