Social therapeutic role play

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The social therapeutic role play (STR) is a role play approach, which, like the educational role play, is recommended for the action strategies of social work / social education .

Methods and goals of the approach

The social therapeutic role play was originally developed by the psychologist Adelheid Stein at the Catholic Foundation University in Munich from 1972.

The games of the 'Social Therapeutic Role Play' are divided into three large groups, each of which contains several different types of games:

  • Perception-centered games aim to improve the perception of oneself and others and serve to correct them. They are divided into adventure games, empathy games and fantasy images.
  • Group-centered games work with the current situation and all the experiences made with previous groups. They are divided into group-centered fantasy games, reality-oriented group games, relationship games and group games.
  • Problem-centered games aim to increase social / action skills. They work on the problems of the group members and include both the experience and the action level. A distinction is made between situation play, group empathy, conversations, behavior modification and motivation clarification.

STR is about psychosocial treatment and maturation support that is related to the present and tied to rules, with the group being of central importance. The game master plays along at the same time and thus becomes a transference figure . The principles of social work and social pedagogy apply with their corresponding support options. With STR, the imagination steers towards something that has actually been experienced or can be experienced. It is about the processing of concrete experiences, about objects that are tied to experiences and feelings, and about growing and detaching with an emphasis on the aspect of reality, with which the reference to the unconscious is more distant and therefore 'closer to me'.

In the skills-oriented STR, the game character is particularly emphasized with the goals of expanding the behavioral repertoire, getting to know the consequences in certain life situations and the holistic development of the personality.

The STR will u. a. Used in pastoral training as a “low-threshold method of deepening faith for groups”.

See also

literature

  • Adelheid Stein. Social therapeutic role play . 4th edition, Munich 2009 ISBN 3-497-01870-8
  • Herbert Huber and Walter Schild, practice of social therapeutic role play . 1st edition, Munich 1996 ISBN 3-769-80841-X

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. A. Stein, p. 14
  2. ↑ cf. Huber and Schild 1996 p. 121ff.
  3. ^ Theological-Pastoral Institute of the Diocese of Mainz

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