Training of Mental Health Professionals Through the Use of the "Bug in the Ear"
WILLIAM H. BOYLSTON M.D.1, and
JUNE M. TUMA PH.D.2
1 Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Tex. 77550
2 Assistant Professor, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Tex. 77550
The authors describe their experience with a training device through which a supervisor is able to give instructions to a beginning psychotherapist by using a transmitter broadcasting to a receiver placed in the therapist's ear. Instant communication with the trainee while the latter is working with a patient is thus possible. Advantages and disadvantages of the technique are outlined.
