Psychology

Ellis's ABC Model - response to negative event

Good mental health result of rational thinking. 

Activating event

• irrational thoughts triggered by external events 
• we get depressed when we experience negative events and these trigger irrational beliefs 
• e.g failing a test or ending a relationship 

Beliefs

• Ellis called the belief that we must always succeed or achieve perfection - musterbation
• 'i-cant-stand-it-itis' - major disaster when something does not go smoothly 
• Utopianism - life is always meant to be fair

Consequence

• When activating event triggers irrantional beliefs there are emotional and behavioural consequences
• e.g. You must always succeed and then fail at something this can trigger depression

Beck's triad

Faulty information processing

• When depressed- attend to the negative aspects of a situation and ignore positives 
• blow small pribalens out of proportion 
• think in 'black and white' terms

Negative self-schemas

• Schema is a mental framweork of ideas and beliefs
• self schema package of information we have about ourselves
• negative self-schema - interpret all information about ourselves in the same way

The nagative triad

• Negative view of the…