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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.
List of contents
- 1: Christine A Padesky and Helen Kennerley: Dialogues for Discovery: What? Why? When?
- 2: Christine A Padesky: The 4-Stage Model of Socratic Dialogue
- 3: Marjorie E Weishaar: Guided Discovery for Depression and Suicide
- 4: Gillian Butler and Freda McManus: Guided Discovery with Anxiety
- 5: Christine A Padesky and Emily Holmes: Imagery: The Language of Emotion
- 6: Helen Kennerley and Christine A Padesky: Inflexible Beliefs
- 7: Helen Kennerley: Impulsive and Compulsive Behaviors
- 8: Stirling Moorey: Guided Discovery with Adversity
- 9: Robert D Friedberg: Chasing Janus: Socratic Dialogue with Children and Adolescents
- 10: James L Shenk: Socratic Dialogue in Group Therapy
- 11: Helen Kennerley and Christine A Padesky: Supervision and Therapist Beliefs
- 12: Christine A Padesky: Dialogues for Discovery: What Next?
About the author
Christine A. Padesky PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist, a leading cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) innovator, consultant to therapists and clinics worldwide, and co-creator of Strengths-Based CBT. Her awards include the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies. Voted the most influential international CBT psychotherapist by the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies. Her best-selling books include: Mind Over Mood, The Clinician's Guide to CBT Using Mind Over Mood, and Collaborative Case Conceptualization.
Helen Kennerley took a D.Phil from the University of Oxford, later becoming an NHS Consultant Clinical Psychologist. She was a founding member of the Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre, and the director of its Advanced Cognitive Therapy Studies and MSc in CBT. She now leads the OCTC/University of Oxford training in Psychological Trauma & Personality Development and in Supervision & Training. Her research includes: post-natal mood changes, anxiety management, sequelae and treatment of childhood trauma. Until 2021, she also worked with the MOD. She was shortlisted as most influential UK CBT psychotherapist by the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies.
Summary
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.
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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.
