Abc For Voices
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1ABC for Voices
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eliefs about the event
onsequences
If voices:
Specific / in situ
How do you feel?
How many?
What goes through your mind
How loud?
when the voice says that?
How often?
Do you agree?
What triggers them?
If it was true / false, what would
(situations, mood,
it mean to you?
emotional, physical state
What would be the worst thing
etc)
about that?
What does it say?
General
How powerful is the voice?
Other hallucinations?
How much control do you feel you
have?
What do you feel like doing?
Vision, smell, physical
How do you explain it? Who is it?
What do you do?
sensation
What does it want? What is it’s
purpose?
How are you making sense of it
all?
What does it all mean?
EXAMPLE
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C
ctivating Event
eliefs about the event
onsequences
Lots of voices – no-one I know
The voices are right – they can see
Horrible
Very loud
right through and inside me.
Depressed
Frequently during the day –
I’m absolute crap and worthless.
Anxious
mostly when I’m out
Life isn’t worth living.
Angry
Worse when I’m around other
I must do what they say – it’s futile to
people, feeling stressed.
resist as they’d just carry on and get
Urge to self-harm
“You’re stupid and useless”
louder.
I left to get away from everyone
“There’s only one thing you can
It’s intolerable – I can’t cope with it!
do about it, and you know what
that is!”
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