ABCX Model

In class this week we talked about the ABCX model developed by Reuben Hill. I think that as this model can help us recognize how events in our lives have effected us and as we learn of this model, we can choose to have a more positive outlook on our trials and life experiences.

            In the ABCX model the A stands for Actual event, the B stands for Both resources and responses, the C stands for Cognition, and the X stands for the total eXperience.  In the book Marriage and Family: The Quest for Intimacy, it states, “There are numerous commonplace tensions and strains in most of our lives. If some additional stressors in the form of unemployment, serious illness, or severe personal or interpersonal problems occur, their cumulative effect can lead to illness in the family or to some kind of crisis of well-being.” Every family has crises or problems that arise. It is important to recognize where the stress is coming from. Once you know where the stress is coming from, you can appropriately deal with the situation. But every family will have stresses and crises.

When you recognize the actual event, you can use your resources to be able to better handle to crises. How you think of the situation also effects the total experience of the crises. You choose how you think and how you act and react to a situation. In Doctrine and Covenants section 58 verse 28 it states: “For the power is in them, wherein they are agents unto themselves.” We are all our own agents. We choose how we act or react to a crises. As we apply the ABCX model and remember it in our crises, we will be able to come out of them stronger.