Dialogues for Discovery Improving Psychotherapy's Effectiveness

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.

Christine Padesky,Helen Kennerley

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.

1. Dialogues for Discovery: What? Why? When?, Christine A Padesky and Helen Kennerley
2. The 4-Stage Model of Socratic Dialogue, Christine A Padesky
3. Guided Discovery for Depression and Suicide, Marjorie E Weishaar
4. Guided Discovery with Anxiety, Gillian Butler & Freda McManus
5. Imagery: The Language of Emotion, Christine A Padesky & Emily Holmes
6. Inflexible Beliefs, Helen Kennerley & Christine A Padesky
7. Impulsive and Compulsive Behaviors, Helen Kennerley
8. Guided Discovery with Adversity, Stirling Moorey
9. Chasing Janus: Socratic Dialogue with Children and Adolescents, Robert D Friedberg
10. Socratic Dialogue in Group Therapy, James L Shenk
11. Supervision and Therapist Beliefs, Helen Kennerley & Christine A Padesky
12. Dialogues for Discovery: What Next?, Christine A Padesky