A brief mock counseling session was potentially more risky but more potent than a brief videotaped counseling session as an intervention for increasing counseling self-efficacy in prepractica trainees.In the counselor training literature, much attention has been devoted to identifying specific training interventions such as role plays that improve counselor performance (e.g., Baker, Daniels, & Greeley, 1990). Although this task remains crucial to the profession, it also seems vital to examine the impact of these interventions on counseling self-efficacy, especially given the findings summarized in a recent review that link self-efficacy with coun-