[ DISCLAIMER ]   My Former Family   When residing in a children’s home, I met a family at a Churches of Christ congregation that sponsored the nonprofit organization overseeing my residential placement. Between my freshman and sophomore year, I was invited to live with the family under legal guardianship .   The eldest daughter of that family had four boys to whom I was close. At one point or another, I’d changed diapers, fed, played and took naps with, and tended to other r

[ DISCLAIMER ]   When providing professional care for mental, emotional, and behavioral health  (collectively “ mental health ”), I practice Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy  (REBT). In this blogpost, I’ll discuss one of the major techniques regarding this psychotherapeutic modality .   REBT uses the ABC model to illustrate that when an undesirable A ction occurs and you B elieve an unhelpful narrative about the event, it’s your unfavorable assumption , not  the occurrence