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Training of Mental Health Professionals Through the Use of the "Bug in the Ear"

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.129.1.92

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.

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