Ellis

• Ellis' approach to CBT is based off of the ABC Model , through this it becomes the ABCDEF Model - or REBT
• ABCDEF Model

  D - Disputation to challenge irrational beliefs

  E - Effective new rational beliefs

  F - New feelings
• REBT extends Ellis' ABC Model

  The aim - get patients to identify and dispute negative beliefs
• D - dispute

  Client may talk about how unlucky they have been or how unfair things seem

  Therapist identifies these as examples of utopianism and challenges this as an irrational belief through vigorous argument

  Changes the irrational belief and so breaks the link between negative life events and depression