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5.20.9.2 Advantages of Role Play
1. Role play acts as a traditional stage between theory and practice.
2. It is an effective method to gain insight about the different behaviours of the participants
and get to know the strong and weak points in their behaviour.
3. It increases the participants’ ownership of learning.
5.20.9.3 Disadvantages of Role Play
1. Role play sometimes over-personalizes the problem situation or end up in stereotype
and caricature roles.
2. Role play, if not planned, organized and processed properly will be viewed as a mere
fun exercise.
3. The participants will be tempted to act in an unnatural way and will not reveal their true
behaviour.
5.20.10 Psychodrama and Sociodrama
Psycho and socio dramas are also simulation training methods. They are used along with
the treatment to help the disordered people to relieve from the situations that upset them psychologically
or socially. The importance of the drama lies in the process, in the reacting or reliving itself. The
performers are given free hand and no control over their skill or play and it may lead anywhere. It
gives opportunity to vent out their blocked emotions and feelings. The purpose of the simulation
methods of training is to offer opportunities for specific experiences rather than leading to anywhere
else.
5.20.11 In Basket Exercise
It is one of the behaviour simulation games designed for evolving role behaviour simulations.
The trainees are asked to act as if they have assumed a particular role and their behaviour is critically
observed. On the basis of their performance, the trainer critically evaluates their knowledge, skill
and attitude to handle a particular role or take when assigned to it. Based on the evaluation result
the trainee will be given training to modify his approach by providing the required knowledge and
skill. This method is a most elaborate simulation which creates a complex work organisation, rotate
participants through key roles in it, and have them deal with specific situations of a kind they encounter
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