Rational emotive behavioral therapy (REBT), developed by Columbia University psychologist Albert Ellis, is a treatment designed to help people recognize irrational and destructive beliefs, feelings, and behaviors and restructure them. The key component of REBT is the ABC Model. When examining behavioral choices, the model asks an individual to identify three things: the “activating event” (A), the “belief system” related to that event (B), and the “consequence” that results from that belief (C).
