ASS072-1: Health and Social Care - Reflective Account of Role Play Exercise - Reflective Essay Assignment Help

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 Health Role Play and Reflective Essay Assignment Help

Task:  For assessment two, you are required to take part in a role-play scenario in order to demonstrate your one-to-one working skills. Alongside this exercise you will write a reflective essay on the skills required when working one-to-one within the human services. The role-play exercise will cover the practice of one-to-one working with a client requiring health or social care services. Students will be randomly paired up to take part in this exercise, as you will also not be able to choose what clients/service users you come into contact with in your future work. You must agree in your pair what role-play activity you are going to choose. It must be a simple example of an issue that a service user might come to talk to a practitioner about. This is to allow you to research areas of specific interest whilst drawing on the lectures as a resource. Seminar time will be set aside for you to work together on your role-play, but you will also need to do work outside of the seminar times. Further guidance on the role-play and assignment task will be given in seminars. In reality your role-play will take a maximum of 8 to 10 minutes. In this time, you will complete 2 mini role-plays. In one you will play the role of the professional/practitioner/service provider and your partner the role of the patient/client/service user. In the second you will play the role of the patient/client/service user and your partner will play the role of the professional/practitioner/service provider. This is so that you both gain experience of being a service provider but also experience what it is like to be a service user. You have to audio record your role play and submit this as evidence. Your reflective assignment will not be marked if you both did not submit the audio file. The written part of the assignment is an explanation and analysis of the role-play that you completed. The reflective essay is an individual activity; therefore, both of you should write and submit one. It must consist of:

1. An introduction - setting out that you are writing about, the scenario where you were the professional, and what role you played.
2. An explanation of the scenario that you and your partner agreed upon (setting the scene). This will involve defining the nature and responsibilities of your professional role which, together with your discussion of the scenario, should be brief . This assignment is not to simply be a description of what was said and done in the role play.
3. An analysis and reflection of the one-to-one working skills that took place in your role-play. This will be an interplay of how practitioner and client engaged and responded to each other, so you have to focus on both role players. Here you need to draw on academic sources/references linking skills to theory (particularly to reflective cycles of learning, such as Gibbs’ or Kolb’s).
4. Information and analysis of what the ethics and values were that came into play in your scenario. Mention the difference between personal values and professional ethics and how you, the professional worker, dealt with this. Again, you should support your discussion here with academic sources/references.
5. State the strengths and the weaknesses of the interplay/meeting/interview. Say what did not go well and what would you do differently if you did it again.
6. Conclusion – this should be a summary, demonstrating where your assignment met the aims and objectives in your introduction.

You will be expected to draw on parts of at least six academic/peer-reviewed sources (that is academic books or academic journals) to support your discussion to pass. Of this minimum of six sources, only one can be an Internet source and the six do not include lecture notes. The six is a minimum; students are encouraged to carry out wider reading.