The connection between these three categories of methods is indestructible and
reciprocally conditioned. The cause-effect chain in the triad is maintained in their
assessment as well, the advantages / disadvantages passed from one to the other.
Advantages:
- prevents failure, reduces risks and random future events;
- offers an overall (bird’s eye) view of events, directing towards the solution of
the client’s problem; - anticipates vocational success by practicing occupational roles;
- develops creative imagination, and analysis and synthesis capacity;
- practices the mechanisms of heuristic and strategic thinking;
- develops intuition, decision making, prediction, and conflict solving;
- cultivates artistic aptitudes, emotional balance, and self-discipline;
- socializes, corrects behavioural disorders and emotional tensions;
- develops managerial capacities, and spatial and temporal orientation;
- helps counsellors estimate in a realistic manner the client’s chances or
vulnerable points.
Disadvantages:
- requires long documentation and elaboration;
- plays on previous experience and managerial capacities of the counsellor;
- amplifies stress and fear of failure by its anticipatory nature, especially in
case of nervous clients; - asks for specialized psycho-therapeutical assistance in severe cases of
compulsive negative liberation triggered by the role-play.
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