Chapter 7: Socratic Method Flashcards
Socratic Question
Using questions to help students reach a conclusion without directly instructing them; one that students have the ability to answer 0- althought he may not realize it yet; intention is to encourage the other person to query their view and to develop new outlooks
Aim of Therapist Using Socratic Method
Direct clients’ attention to possibilities that had previously been outside their attention, and there are means other than questioning to achieve this
How do you know if you’ve asked a good Socratic Question?
If your client can work out an anser to it and
if the answer reveals new perspectives
Socratic Questions in Assessment & Formulation
What did you do when this happened?
What did it mean to you when you thought/did that?
When was the first time that this thought occured to you?
Did you ahve any other feelings?
And when that happens, how do you feel?
What goes through your mind when you feel like that?
What do you tend to do at those times?
Socratic Questions for Education
Imagine…what would go through your mind?
How would you feel?
What would you do?
If … were safe, what would go through your mind?
How would you feel?
What would you do?
What does that suggest about the links between thoughts and feelings, or thoughts and actions?
What youjust said, did you mean it? Did it seem true for you?
Socratic Questions for Unhelpful Cognitions
Evidence for Questions
Evidence Against Questions
Alternate View Questions
Consequences of Questions
Evidence for Questions
In your experience, what fits with this belief, what makes it seem true?
Why might any of us have that thought at some time?
Evidence Against Questions
I’m just wondering, do you have any experience of this not being the case?
Is there anything that doesn’t seem to fit with that thought?
How might someone else view the situation?
Is that so all of the time or are there occasions when things are different?
Alternate View Questions
Now that you have looked at the bigger picture, how would you view your original concern?
Given what you’ve just described, how likely do you think that it is that the worst will happen?
Consequences of Questions
How helpful, or unhelpful, is it to hold this particular belief?
What good, if any, comes of holding this belief?
What is the downside of seeing things this way?
If you see the world in this way, how do you feel, how do others react?
Problem Solving & Working Out Solutions and the Socratic Method
So, just what is it that you fear will happen?
How might your friend try to deal with such a dilemma?
Given that you have identified avoidance as an obstacle to gaining confidence, how would you advise a friend to go about dealing with this obstacle?
Devising Behavioral Tests and the Socratic Method
What do you think would happen if you held your ground and did not run away?
What would go through your mind?
And if you were able to remain in the situation, what would you go through your mind?
How would you feel? What would this mean to you?
How might we set up a situation where this could happen?
What would make it easier for you to take on the challenge?
How will you gauge your success?
What could go wrong?
What is the worst-case scenario?
How might you prepare yourself/deal with this if it happened?
How might a friend prepare herself/deal with it if it happened?
What would we learn from that?
Socratic Method in Supervision?
Enhances learning, fosters collaboration and tests hypotheses
Aims of Cognitive Therapy
Changing Minds
Guiding Discovery
Changing Minds
Invalidates specific thoughts or meanings