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Role playing is a technique that is widely used as a conditioning or learning therapy to help teens who are suffering from problems like pressure to use drugs or engage in other dangerous behaviors deal with these situations in a better and responsible manner.
Below are a few role – playing scenarios that thousands of teenagers face every day. Parents and teens can read these together, get into characters and act them out.
Drunk Driver – You are in a party with a friend who is responsible to drop you home. However, you realize that the said friend is high on drugs or very drunk. Even then she is pressuring you to let her drive and drop you home. Your gut tells you that getting in that car is very risky; however you do not want to create a scene. What will you say?
You can reply:
Medicine Cabinet – Your friend is at your place and she is insisting you to steal cough medication from your parent’s medicine cabinet. She says, “ No one will notice,” What will you say? You can reply:
Role playing involves creating certain situations that occur almost daily in the life of your teen and some of these are potentially dangerous like the party scene. These role playing activities help your teen get ready in advance for a situation like this and act in the best manner possible. Moreover, they also help teens and parents talk about teen drug abuse that is often a hard to discuss subject.