HUMAN SERVICES (ROLE PLAYS)

Role-Play 1
• Discuss the presenting problem of your client and your own understanding of this problem.
• Define the skills that you used here and discuss your intentions with these skills.
Strengths.
o Discuss your strengths in this role-play. What did you do well and why do you believe that you used this skill
well?
o How did your client respond to the effective use of this skill?
Weaknesses.
o Discuss your weaknesses in this role-play. What did you not do so well and what should you have done
instead?
o How did these moments help you gain insight into these weaknesses and help you learn what to do instead?
Role-Play 2
• Discuss the presenting problem of your client and your own understanding of this problem.
• Define the skills that you used here and discuss your intentions with these skills.
• How does is the role-play different from your first role-play? What similarities and differences did you notice
about your use of skills?
Strengths.
o Discuss your strengths in this role-play. What did you do well and why do you believe that you used this skill
well?
o How did your client respond to the effective use of this skill?
o Compare and contrast your strengths between your first and second role-play. What similarities and
differences did you observe?
Weaknesses.
o Discuss your weaknesses in this role-play. What did you not do so well and what should you have done
instead?
o How did these moments help you gain insight into these weaknesses and help you learn what to do instead?
o Did the weaknesses from your first role-play disappear or were they still apparent in your second role-play?
What similarities and differences did you notice?
Role-Play 3
Strengths.
o Discuss your strengths in this role-play. What did you do well and why do you believe that you used this skill
well?
o How did your client respond to the effective use of this skill?
o Compare and contrast your strengths between your first and second role-plays with your third role-play. What
similarities and differences did you observe?
o In your opinion, is your third role-play your strongest display of skills compared to your first and second roleplays? Why or why not?
Weaknesses.
o Discuss your weaknesses in this role-play. What did you not do so well and what should you have done
instead?
o How did these moments help you gain insight into these weaknesses and help you learn what to do instead?
o Were the weaknesses that you noticed in your first and second role-plays still apparent in your third roleplay? What similarities and differences did you notice?
o Considering all the skills that we have learned throughout the semester, what skills were absent in your third
role-play. How do you think you could have incorporated the skills that are missing within this role-play?
Future Professional Development
• Talk about areas that you would like to develop during your journey of becoming a helping professional. How
would you develop these areas? If there are areas that you feel are stronger than others, how would you use
these areas to strengthen those weaker areas? How do you think further professional development would help
future clients?