“…Role playing as a simulated counseling experience has been used as a standard method for training counselors (Ford, 1979) and has generally been supported empirically (Bailey, Deardorff, & Nay, 1977;Delaney, 1969;Mann & Mann, 1966). Investigations of the effects of role play in combination with other treatments have demonstrated that skill development is enhanced when role-play practice is combined with modeling or instructions (Froehle, Robinson, & Kurpius, 1983;O'Toole, 1979;Stone, 1975;Teevan & Gabel, 1978).…”