Party at 5, Bring a Date! Drama to Communicate and Apply Counseling Theories

ABSTRACT

Learning and applying the philosophy, concepts, and application of counseling theories is a key aspect of competency for masters-level counseling students. This article demonstrates how drama can be used as a creative medium to teach counselor trainees to learn, apply, and communicate counseling theoretical concepts and increase their self-efficacy. The article describes two experiential activities in which students dramatize the identities of well-known counseling theorists while interacting with each other. Activity prompts and discussion questions are provided, and implications related to self-efficacy are presented.

KEYWORDS:

• Drama
• role-play
• counseling theories
• creativity in the classroom
• counselor education
• creativity in counseling