ABSTRACT
Reviewing counseling interviews and analyzing case presentations are essential teaching strategies for every helping profession educational program. This chapter assists people in reviewing those basic microcounseling skills that are used in some fashion in every theoretical orientation and counseling interview. This chapter focuses on a type of supervision called Microcounseling Supervision that provides a vocabulary guide and constant examination of personal counseling style. The Counseling Interview Rating Form (CIRF) is an instrument that can be utilized for qualitative and quantitative feedback from counseling interviews. The chapter uses a method for providing personal feedback is presented using the Microcounseling Supervision Model (MSM) and the corresponding CIRF. The chapter focuses on the MSM as a standardized approach assisting people in reviewing, offering feedback, teaching, and evaluating microcounseling skills. Also with the advances in neuroscience and neurocounseling, counseling educators and students need to understand the implications of using intentional counseling skills with their clients and their clients' brains.
