Apply the ABC model to the major stresses in your life by listing the following in a fourcolumn table.

a. List activating events or stressors (triggering events, people, places, situations)

in your life. Indicate which are temporary or short-lived stressors and which are longer term. Identify each as annoying or anger producing and disappointing or depression producing.

b. List consequences (physiological effects/body reactions, behavioral effects, psychological effects–

negative coping and defense mechanisms).

c. List your internal pressures (irrational beliefs, self-damnations, thoughts, assumptions, wishful thoughts, intolerances). These are to include “should statements,” “awfulizing statements,” “overgeneralizations,” and self-talk

(or irrational beliefs).

d. List the positive coping mechanisms that you would like to use.