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The ABCs of rational-emotive therapy (RET) go back to its very beginnings in 1955, and I continually used them with my early rational-emotive therapy clients (Ellis, 1962). When the Institute for Rational-Emotive Therapy in New York founded its psychological clinical in 1968, cognitive homework forms were printed for its clients, and they added D and E to the original ABCs (Ellis, 1968). As explained in Chapter 3 of Humanistic Psychotherapy: The Rational-Emotive Approach (Ellis, 1973). A stands for Activating events, Activating experiences, Activities or Agents that people disturb themselves about. B stands for rational Beliefs or realistic Beliefs about the Activating events that tend to lead to a C,appropriate Consequences. IB stands for irrational Beliefs about the Activating events and tends to lead to iC, inappropriate Consequences (especially, emotional disturbances and dysfunctional behaviors). D stands for Disputing irrational Beliefs—Detecting them, Discriminating them from rational Beliefs, and Debating them (Phadke, 1982). E stands for Effective rational Beliefs to replace people’s irrational Beliefs and also for Effective appropriate emotions and Effective functional behaviors to replace their disturbed emotions and dysfunctional behaviors.
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Ellis, A. (1985). Expanding the ABCs of Rational-Emotive Therapy. In: Mahoney, M.J., Freeman, A. (eds) Cognition and Psychotherapy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7562-3_13
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