Teaching clinical interviewing skills using role-playing: conveying empathy to performing a suicide assessment: a primer for individual role-playing and scripted group role-playing.
This article provides a useful introduction to the art of role-playing in both the individual format and the group format using scripted group role-playing (SGRP). Role-playing can provide powerful learning opportunities, but to do so it must be done well. This article imparts guidance toward this goal. SGRP may greatly enhance the acquisition of critical complex interviewing skills, such as suicide assessment and uncovering domestic violence, in health care providers across all disciplines, an educational goal that has not been achievable to date. Although research is at an early stage of development, the hope represented by SGRP is tangible.
Training Institute for Suicide Assessment and Clinical Interviewing (TISA), 104 Stoney Brook Road, Newbury, NH 03255, USA. Electronic address: shea@suicideassessment.com.
Shawn Christopher
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Shea
2456 Christian Street, Suite 202, White River Junction, VT 05001, USA.
Christine
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Barney
D002983:Clinical Competence; D004645:Empathy; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological / Q000379:methods*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D012381:Role Playing; D000092864:Suicide Prevention
Chronological Assessment of Suicide Events (CASE Approach); Clinical interviewing; Role-playing; Scripted group role-playing; Suicide assessment