ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on teaching clinicians how to use Socratic strategies (i.e., Socratic questioning, guided discovery, and collaborative empiricism) to target core beliefs. Core belief work or schema work is not inherently different from working with other cognitions; however, it can be a longer process. Effectively targeting core beliefs and schema can be approached as a multi-intervention process that involves cognitive, behavioral, experiential, and emotion-focused strategies to bring about change. Fostering the constellation of belief, behavior, emotion, and thought pattern (i.e., modal response) can make for a more impactful change of core beliefs or schema. Clinicians are taught both interventions to use within a single session (i.e., within-session strategies) and how to build on interventions across sessions to bring about lasting change (i.e., across-session strategies).
