Clinician’s Guide to Mind Over Mood

Descriptive Study of the Socratic Method: Evidence for Verbal Shaping

“…The relevant fragments of the Socratic method were identified through previously developed guidelines ) that define a Socratic disputation and when a disputation starts and ends. These guidelines emphasize clinical criteria extracted from the most common manuals of cognitive therapy (Beck et al, 1979;Ellis & Grieger, 1977;Dryden, DiGiuseppe, & Neenan, 1995;Padesky & Greenberg, 1995), starting from the definition of Socratic disputation: a dialogue between therapist and patient in which the former makes patients reflect on the appropriateness of their cognitions and then modifies their dysfunctional thoughts, mainly through questioning and disputational strategies. We only took into account the dialogues in which the therapist had previously assessed that the patient´s cognitions were not in agreement with the empirical evidence.…”

Trial-Based Thought Record (TBTR): preliminary data on a strategy to deal with core beliefs by combining sentence reversion and the use of analogy with a judicial process

“…However, for some patients, the alternative thoughts generated through DTR and intended to be perceived as adaptive and rational may still lack credibility. To address this issue, Padesky and Greenberger 5 have proposed expanding the original 5-column DTR designed by Beck et al 4 to seven columns. The two additional columns are evidence columns, allowing the patient to include evidence that does and does not support the ATs, giving the patient the opportunity to generate more balanced thoughts and thus reducing their intensity and ameliorating associated behavior.…”

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression

“…Thought records also include an evidence-gathering column, and a column to generate an alternative thought about the situation. Finally, the patient is asked to rate the believability of the new thought as well as to rate the intensity of the emotion (Padesky & Greenberger, 1995).…”