Guided Internet-Based Treatments in Psychiatry by Nils Lindefors & Gerhard Andersson

Author:Nils Lindefors & Gerhard Andersson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Therapist Training

ICBT may serve as a tool to train therapists in protocol-based therapy and requires further investigation. Most of the Swedish ICBT trials have used psychology students in their final year of training as therapists and our experience is that ICBT can serve as a good basis for junior therapist to learn the CBT treatment components for OCD and other disorders. The therapist can practice in front of a computer to provide efficient and concise communication with a patient, and this could potentially improve the general therapist skills. Additionally, it is easy for the supervisor to monitor the therapist feedback, and this also decreases the risk of therapist drift. The clinical psychology program at the KI now has a mandatory course in ICBT where the students treat real patients and receive supervision via the Internet. Thus, ICBT may be a promising education tool for novice therapists in the future. This is an important issue as there is evidence that inexperienced therapists at master level can be as capable as experienced therapists given that proper supervision is provided (van Oppen et al. 2010). Thus, ICBT has the potential to serve as a secure and accessible education tool, but we need more research on the feasibility of such education tools.

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