Reflection Assignment: Applying The Functional Assessment Model

This week’s reflection assignment is to write about an event that occurred applying the “functional assessment model” (Cory, P. 262), Activating Event, Belief, and Emotional and Behavioral Consequence. I was searching for an activating event to explain and everything prior to the death of my daughter seems to be insignificant, and hard for me to actually remember. Therefore, after some hesitation, I choose to write about the day I was told my daughter had passed away. In addition, I will analyze the situation using the ABC’s of the Behavioral Therapy technique as described in Chapter 9 from the text book called, Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy, by Gerald Cory.
The activating event, as mentioned above, for this assignment is the day I was told my daughter died. On May 26th 2015 at about 10:25 AM., two detectives knocked on my door, after they announced who they were my first thought was, what did Adreanna (my daughter) do? However, the look on their faces was troublesome as they asked if they could come in. They were very …show more content…
I contacted the friend that my daughter was spending the night at asking if it was actually true, I remember asking her why she was lying and to let me talk to Adreanna. After I realized my daughter was really dead I then became very angry and wanted to go over to the girl’s house, not sure what I wanted to do but I am sure I would have been very irrational due to my emotional state of mind. Proceeding the event some self-defeating thoughts and behaviors about the situation was that this would not have happened if I hadn’t let her spend the night at her friends, therefore it was my fault, and if I had called her before I went to bed to check on her, in my mind I thought then I would have noticed something wasn’t right and went to pick her