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Christine A. Padesky argues that some questions are better than others and that therapists and clients can learn guidelines to use Socratic questions more effectively. 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Padesky, Ph. D.  \nCenter for Cognitive Therapy, Huntington Beach, California  \nWhy did you choose to come and hear this talk? What am I going to say?  \nWhat do you already know about Socratic  \nquestioning?  \nDon't you think it is a mistake to ask questions without a goal in mind?  \nThese are all questions. Are they equally useful questions? I don't think so. When I first began doing cognitive therapy fifteen years ago, I thought the Socratic questioning process was the most intriguing part of the therapy. I still do. Today you will hear the best questions I've been asked about Socratic questioning and the paths I've followed to answer them.  \nI will assert that some questions are better than others, that it is possible to develop guidelines to help therapists and clients learn to use Socratic questions more effectively, and that it is important we answer the question, \"Is the primary purpose of Socratic questioning to change minds or to guide discovery?\"  \nMy thinking for this talk actually began in 1986. By then I had attained sufficient skill as a cognitive therapist that therapists began asking me, \"How do you know what questions to ask?\" Somehow, responding that the questions just intuitively \"popped into my head\" did not seem a satisfactory answer. And yet, for me and, I suspect, for many other skilled therapists, it was hard to articulate how I thought of the questions I asked.  \nThis question posed to me seven years ago, \"How do you know what questions to ask?\" has guided my own learning as a therapist and teacher of Cognitive Therapy more than any other. It is a tribute to the power of a well-timed question that I have been stimulated by this simple query to engage in extensive observation of myself and other therapists for seven years in search of a satisfactory answer.  \nOf course, therapists studying cognitive therapy with me continued to pose the question. For awhile, I answered my students' curiosity by providing lists of questions that could be asked in therapy. Then we would develop rationales in our training programs for why one question would be better to ask first and another later and yet another not asked at all. This collaborative process between us led to the development of a list of good Socratic questions that were generic in nature and generally led the client to  \ndiscovering useful information. Typical Socratic questions on the \"good\" list included:  \nHave you ever been in similar circumstances before? What did you do? How did that turn out?  \nWhat do you know now that you didn't know then?  \nWhat would you advise a friend who told you something similar?  \nThis strategy of listing good questions to ask was a useful one. I discovered that it was not only helpful to therapists learning cognitive therapy, but I began giving these questions to clients and found that these same questions helped clients generate alternative responses on their written automatic thought records. So, as I became more aware of what questions Itended to ask again and again, this knowledge could be shared with other therapists and clients.  \nBut the question asked in 1986 continued to roll around in my mind. \"How do I know what questions to ask?\" Although beginning students of Cognitive Therapy were quite satisfied with my list of \"good questions to ask,\" more advanced therapists were quite aware that these generic questions were not enough. I didn't simply ask these questions over andover again. I asked hundreds of different questions and different questions with each client. Where did these questions come from? And was there any pattern to the questions I asked when I was doing therapy well?  \nApproximately 100,000 therapeutic questions later, I have discovered some patterns in my own questions. Watching myself and other experienced ","cbCaidKMP8kB38F1","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidKMP8kB38F1","pdf",34779,"English","# Socratic Questioning\n## Changing Minds or Guiding Discovery?\n## Why Socratic Questions Must Have a Goal\n## Developing Guidelines and Patterns\n## Listing “Good” Questions and Client Use\n## Answering the Core Purpose Question","[{\"question\":\"What is the main purpose of Socratic questioning, according to the talk?\",\"answer\":\"The talk frames the issue as whether Socratic questioning is primarily meant to change minds or to guide discovery, and argues the purpose is important to answer directly.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the speaker emphasize that questions should have a goal?\",\"answer\":\"The speaker questions whether asking questions without a goal is a mistake, and uses this to set up the idea that not all questions are equally useful.\"},{\"question\":\"How were the speaker’s Socratic question strategies developed over time?\",\"answer\":\"They began with early intuitive understanding and then evolved through providing lists of generic “good questions,” training rationales, giving questions to clients, and finally identifying patterns after vast experience and observation of therapy sessions.\"}]","Socratic Questioning: Changing Minds or Guiding Discovery? | PDF",15]