Cards (9)

  • A - activating event
  • B - belief
  • C - consequence
  • model proposed in 1962
  • depression is caused by people forming negative interpretations about events in their life
  • activating event

    any negative event that happens to someone
  • belief
    reason to explain the event
  • consequence
    thoughts, feelings and behaviour resulting from a person's beliefs
  • when a person with depression experiences a negative activating event, they form irrational negative beliefs about the event and as a consequence experience depression symptoms