Cognitive Therapy Techniques and Applications

Running head: LITERATURE REVIEW
Socratic Questioning Method
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note

1LITERATURE REVIEW
Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Literature Review............................................................................................................................2
Role and function of Socratic Method.........................................................................................2
Challenges of using Socratic Method..........................................................................................3
Literature Gap..............................................................................................................................4
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
References........................................................................................................................................6

2LITERATURE REVIEW
Introduction
The case scenario is of a 39 year old male named Steve. The subject has recently lost his
job as civil engineer for unsatisfactory performance followed by a breakdown of his 10 year old
relationship. This was the first negative feedback that he experienced in his career that left him
de-motivate. He is now experiencing low amount of sleep and lost his interest in searching jobs
or socialize. His parents failed inspiring him. The Socratic questioning intervention method of
cognitive behavioral therapy can prove to be useful in this particular case scenario. A detailed
study of the method form the earlier scholarly work is presented in this part of the assignment.
Literature Review
According to Ehlers et al. (2005) Socratic Method comprises an important part in the
cognitive behavioural therapy and proved to be a competent approach in CBT (Roth and Pilling,
2007). Beck (2003) suggests that the questioning method promotes the acquisition of abstract
conceptual skills, which guides the patient to create distance from and an ability to evaluate,
distressing appraisals.
Role and function of Socratic Method
The patients with high level of distress are treated with the help of CBT as it aims to help
the patients develop skills that allow to re-appraisal and modification of distressing cognition.
The role of the method under study that is Socratic Method is to give confidence to the patients
for considering evaluating their thinking. It studies the information of the situation background
of the patient and helps them to consider their upsetting cognition. The method only guides the
patients, where they have to reach their own conclusions considering the validity of the upsetting