title: Cognitive behaviour therapy: teaching a client the ABC model--the first step towards the process of change.
abstract: Research suggests that clients need to be made aware of the relationship between thinking and emotional and behavioural reactions at the start of the therapeutic work. This paper looks at the clinical processes of educating the client about this relationship in a seven-step ABC model. Rationales for each of the seven steps are given. The model illustrates the process of generating alternative beliefs in relation to a negative event and shows consequences of holding helpful and unhelpful beliefs.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, Kingston University and St. George's Medical School, St. George's Hospital, Kingston, England.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lam
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gale
mesh_terms: D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology; D001519:Behavior; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D013850:Thinking