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  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Intervention Science

Background:

  • Effective psychological interventions often reframe maladaptive interpretations into adaptive narratives.
  • These interventions improve outcomes in diverse areas like health, relationships, and academic performance.
  • Current interventions lack focus on developing sustained strategies for goal pursuit.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a complementary approach to enhance psychological interventions.
  • To explore how strategic questioning can support and maintain adaptive narratives.
  • To investigate the role of strategic questioning in effective goal pursuit.

Main Methods:

  • Proposes guiding individuals to ask and answer strategic questions.
  • Highlights the potential for eliciting strategy generation, access, and use.
  • Suggests learning an orientation toward self-prompting strategic questions.

Main Results:

  • Strategic questioning can elicit adaptive appraisals and responses to adversity.
  • Individuals can learn to proactively use strategic questions for self-guidance.
  • This approach offers new avenues for research and practice in psychological interventions.

Conclusions:

  • Strategic questioning complements existing narrative-focused interventions.
  • It fosters more effective, goal-directed, and generalizable outcomes.
  • Understanding strategic questioning opens new frontiers for psychological research and practice.