Role Play in Counselor Education and Supervision: Innovative Ideas, Gaps, and Future Directions

Flipping the Counseling Classroom to Enhance Application-Based Learning Activities

“…Experiential learning strategies are effective methods to educate students about counseling knowledge, skills, and populations (Warren, Hof, McGriff, & Morris, 2012). Role play, for example, is one common experiential activity in counselor education courses that is an engaging activity, effective in helping students feel more comfortable in the role of counselor (Smith, 2009). Given research indicating the value of experiential learning strategies in counselor education, and the primary use of experiential activities in flipped classrooms, flipped learning in counselor education also appears beneficial.…”

Using exercises to cope with the transference in the process of group counseling

“…Educational background of psychological counselor who would implement these practices is quite important in terms of the implementation of exercises properly in group counseling and achievement of the goal. There are also some articles in today's literature laying emphasis on psychological counselor's education (Smith, 2009;Southern, 2007). As a result, this kind of exercises may be benefited in group counseling to cope with transference after having attended to essential trainings and practices.…”

“…Besides the current methods taken place in literature to cope with transference in the group counseling process, the method of co-leadership may also be referred to deal with transference and countertransference (Smith, 2009). For example, Moreno has used this method in psychodrama practices to describe transference and countertransference.…”

“…Gestalt therapists are often use this exercises to cope with transference (Nazarzadeh & Foroutan, 2015) Role Playing: Another exercise used to cope with transference is Role Playing. In this method it is aimed to be aware of feelings and establish balance (Corey, 2015) The Psychodrama model developed by Jacob Moreno and the technique of role playing is still used by many researchers (Corey, 2015;Schaefer, 2011;Smith, 2009). In Role Playing, the group member who would be studied on is placed to the center and other members undertake the roles of important persons or supporting roles in his life.…”

“…These exercises may be implemented in group process but the leader who would implement the exercises should have sufficient background, ability and experiences. In this regard, he should have a theoretical background as well as practical experiences (Berg & Landreth, 2013;Luke & Hackney, 2007;Smith, 2009;Voltan-Acar, 2014). …”