ABSTRACT
Therapists present the ABC model, a number of clients will appreciate its simplicity. Others will criticize it for being overly simplistic. When clients criticize REBT for being simplistic, introduce some of its complexity to correct this misconception without confusing them. A commonly asked question from clients is that they find the ABCs of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) overly simplistic. In reality, as Albert Ellis has argued, the ABCs interact in often complex ways. If a person holds an irrational belief about an event, then he will tend to create further distorted inferences about this A. If a person is already experiencing an unhealthy negative emotion then this will lead her/him to attend to certain aspects in a situation. Thus, if a person is already anxious then he/she is more likely to focus on threatening aspects of a situation than if he/she is concerned but not anxious.
