Question

Amy is upset because she thinks her professor ignored her when they walked by each other in the quad. Amy's therapist practices cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), and begins working with Amy on this issue. Which of the following questions is the therapist most likely to ask?
Group of answer choices

“Does it really matter if your professor ignored you in the quad?”

“Have there been a lot of situations where people ignored you in public?”

“How are you going to let your professor know you feel insulted?”

“Perhaps there is another reason your professor did not talk to you in the quad?”

Answer 1

“Perhaps there is another reason your professor did not talk to you in the quad?”

This fits CBT’s Socratic approach of examining automatic thoughts and generating alternative, more balanced explanations (challenging “mind-reading”), unlike the other options which are dismissive, prescriptive, or focused on broad patterns.