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The use of SD is a time-affirmed model of learning. Employed in education, business, and philosophy, it is an ideal fit in therapy. Beck, Ellis, and others use SD as the vehicle for therapy, asking a series of focused questions that include information about the patient’s history, memory, translation of events, interpretation, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
SD has the effect of moving the therapy along in a clear direction that has been termed guided discovery or collaborative empiricism. SD requires a great deal of work in that the therapist is not simply responding to the patient’s verbalizations but responding while at the same time using the patient’s verbalizations and the direction offered by SD to achieve knowledge, insight, and ultimate change.
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Freeman, A. (2005). Socratic Dialogue. In: Freeman, A., Felgoise, S.H., Nezu, C.M., Nezu, A.M., Reinecke, M.A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Cognitive Behavior Therapy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48581-8_106
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