The author contends that the counselor should move into the school and the community to teach others the various skills of counseling and interpersonal communication. He believes that conducting systematic training programs in such skills as microcounseling should become an important role for counselors. (Author)

This article suggests that a major role for the practicing clinician is the teaching of his helping skills to those whom he would serve. Specifically, the paper describes microcounseling, a videobased system of teaching counseling or psychotherapeutic skills to counselors, clinical psychologists, and medical students. In addition, the method has…