Socratic questioning
Problems wen using Socratic questioning
The client invalidates new perspectives
Helpful in many areas
Assessment and formulation Education Questioning unhelpful cognition -> Construct alternative views Problem solving Devising behavioral tests Supervision
Problems wen using Socratic questioning
Key cognition are fleeting in nature
Problems wen using Socratic questioning
Client cannot access the key thoughts
Problems wen using Socratic questioning
Client invalidates distressing cognition
Problems wen using Socratic questioning
Client is avoidant of distressing cognition
Stages in Socratic questioning
Concrete questioning Emphatic listening Summarizing Synthesizing (expansion of idea) or analyzing questions
Problems wen using Socratic questioning
Crucial meanings are held in a non-verbal form
Why use Socratic questioning
Encourage personal review Shift in attitude, feeling and behavior Draw own conclusions Go to root of the problem
When do we use it
In the context of a good therapeutical relationship warmth, empathy, non-judgemental,
Problems wen using Socratic questioning
Therapist explores but does not draw new conclusions
Problems wen using Socratic questioning
Therapist limits Socratic questions to guided discovery but it can also be used to set agenda, plan behavioral experiment
Problems wen using Socratic questioning
Therapist questions to only validate a hypothesis
Problems wen using Socratic questioning
Therapist questions without direction
Problems wen using Socratic questioning
Therapists lectures
Purpose of Socratic questioning
To question the truth of popular thinking
Successful Socratic question
When client can answer the question and if he gains new insight, perspective
How is it done?
with curiosity and humility to guide discovery instead of changing minds with metaphors and analogy Downward arrowing
