Socratic questions is generally used in Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) in order to make a client discover and understand his/her irrational beliefs. Dryden (1999) articulates the key point in Socratic questioning. Firstly, Socratic questioning encourages clients to understand rational principles. In this method, therapists don’t give clients a certain answer but ask several questions in order to encourage them to think by themselves. If the client’s answer is still irrational, RBET therapists ask further questions based on the answer to guide him or her to the rational answer (Dryden, 1999). Through this process, a client discovers his or her irrational beliefs and changes them into rational ones gradually.
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