Professional counselors can learn more about their clients, including their irrational beliefs, through the soliloquy. The soliloquy, the third aspect, is another term that professional counselors must know it is a speech in which the client expresses her private thoughts and associated feelings. The next element, the stage, is space with simple props that can provide a realistic experience ( M.
This is a necessary part of the role play because the client will sometimes switch roles and play the part of another individual involved in the situation. The first element is called the encounter, which in this situation means being able to understand the perspective of another person.
How to Implement the Role Play Techniqueīefore implementing this technique, it is helpful for professional counselors to understand the four elements and three phases found within role plays. Role plays occur in the present, not the past or the future it is common to begin with scenes that are easier to reenact and to work progressively toward scenes that are more complex. The person then receives feedback from the professional counselor or from group members when the role play is instituted in a group-work context. In most role plays, a person reenacts herself, another person, a set of circumstances surrounding a situation, or her own reactions. Hackney and Cormier des-cribed four aspects commonly found in role plays. Moreno’s psychodrama process involved three facets: (1) warm up, (2) enactment, and (3) reenactment. Role play is a blend of “Salter’s conditioned reflex therapy, Moreno’s psychodrama technique, and Kelly’s fixed-role therapy” ( Hackney & Cormier, 2012, p. Within a role play, clients can perform a decided-upon behavior in a safe, risk-free environment.
The patient is later hospitalized due to the medication error.“Role play is a technique used by counselors of different theoretical orientations with clients who need to develop a deeper understanding of, or change within, themselves ( James & Gilliland, 2003). (Risperidone is actually a psychotropic agent.) Nurse Dabrowski administers risperidone to the patient. Nurse Dabrowski, a conventional thinker who does not like to upset the hierarchical structure, suspects something is wrong with the order but decides risperidone must be a generic name for ropinirole. Nurse Dabrowski receives the pharmacy delivery.
During the handoff, the Code Team is activated, and Nurse Corvo has to respond. The pharmacist misreads the poorly written transcription as "0.25 mg three times a day of risperidone." At the end of Nurse Corvo's shift, she hands off to Nurse Dabrowski. He is also overloaded and overburdened by the large number of prescriptions sent in by the area nursing homes. The receiving pharmacist is a float pharmacist who does not usually work with nursing homes, and he is fatigued from his 7th day of working. The written order is faxed to the pharmacy. Nurse Corvo, for whom English is a second language, quickly writes the order and reads back the telephone order as "ropinirole 0.25 mg three times a day" as her check-back. Goldberg gives a telephone order for "ropinirole 0.25 mg three times a day" to Nurse Corvo. Then Nurse Corvo calls about a new resident with Parkinson's disease recently admitted to the dementia unit. Goldberg, who is notoriously difficult to work with and does not work well under stress, has received many calls and faxes about his patients at the nursing home today already.
Everyone is working extra hours and is tired. Most of the residents are exhibiting symptoms and many staff has called out sick as well.