Microcounseling and Media Therapy: State of the Art

Microcounseling and media therapy are video methods of teaching single behavioral skills of counseling and communication to a wide variety of populations ranging from children to school counselors to psychiatric patients. The history and method of these techniques are detailed and recent research on the effectiveness is summarized. Intentionality is presented as a construct in which the behavioral skills approach may be integrated more closely with an existentially oriented view of man.