Dialogues for Discovery: Improving Psychotherapy's Effectiveness teaches psychotherapists of all modalities how to help their clients make more frequent and higher quality discoveries in every therapy session. Detailed therapist-client dialogues in each chapter illustrate the client-centered and collaborative 4-Stage Model of Socratic Dialogue, as well as other guided discovery approaches such as behavioural experiments, imagery exercises, and role plays. Guidelines for expert use of Socratic dialogue are highlighted to help therapists avoid common therapy traps that frequently derail therapy progress, as well as effective strategies for navigating and overcoming them.
Chapters are written by international experts on each topic and each includes guiding principles to help therapy stay on track, summarized in "Keep in Mind" boxes. Reader Learning Activities at the end of each chapter suggest a variety of ways to tailor the skills taught to one's own therapy / supervision practice or classroom settings, as well as Reflective Practice Worksheets which further personalize and help consolidate therapist application and development of Dialogue for Discovery skills. Although Socratic questioning is most commonly associated with cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), this book offers a vision for how these processes can infuse all types of psychotherapy and lead to discoveries that transform client lives for the better.
This book teaches psychotherapists how to help their clients make better discoveries in every therapy session. Each chapter illustrates the 4-Stage Model of Socratic Dialogue and other guided discovery approaches. Guidelines are highlighted to help therapists avoid traps that frequently derail progress, as well as strategies for navigating them.
Dialogues for Discovery-improving psychotherapy's effectiveness is a book about guided discovery using Socratic dialogue in psychotherapy and supervision... This book is particularly appealing, because of the number of clinical illustrations provided. These show in detail how Socratic dialogue can be developed so that it can both help the client and be adjusted to our personal style. Reading the book it is both apparent and inspiring that each author has their own personal style. They all describe case examples using their own "Therapist's voice" and we learn that there are so many variations and ways to develop the Socratic dialogue to make it one's own....I am pleased to have this book on my bookshelf and will return to it and learn more as I meet new challenges.
