The Use of Role Playing Techniques as an Instructional Aid in Teaching about Dying, Death, and Bereavement

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ID13627602
AuthorsDavid Barton (0000-0002-7074-3825, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, corresponding author), Miles K Crowder (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee)
Year1975
Volume6
Issue3
Pages243-250
Publication date1975-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2190/tjj0-eflh-ckph-m1x6
OpenAlexW1973944655
LanguageEN
Citations received5

Role playing exercises are useful in teaching health care professionals about issues related to dying, death, and bereavement. This paper includes examples of role playing vignettes related to attitudes toward death, the dynamics of family interaction in the context of life-threatening illness, the consideration of an ethical issue, displaced anger toward the caregiver, the role of personality traits in adaptation to illness, and consideration of religious issues. The vignettes simulate clinical situations, facilitate observable interpersonal transactions, provide confrontation, illustrate psychodynamic principles and highlight dimensions involved in caring for the dying patient and his family. The exercises allow students to integrate the experiential and cognitive components of the teaching situation. Role playing is particularly useful in teaching a multidisciplinary class, encouraging the reevaluation of preconceived stereotypes, and facilitating the observation and working through of role conflict

Anger · Context (archaeology · Experiential learning · Interpersonal communication · Pedagogy · Psychodynamics · Psychotherapist · Empathy and Medical Education · Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues · Psychology · Social Psychology

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