ABSTRACT
The teaching of psychotherapy over the Internet also has empirical support. Combining internet-based theory teaching with in-person supervision and personal experience. Jacobsen and Grünbaum studied situations in which distance supervision may be necessary and concluded that supervision via video conferencing offers a good alternative to in-person encounters, and in certain ways it even seems to boost the growth of the supervisees. Psychological treatment over the Internet is far more complex than distance learning and supervision. Treatment involves a more intense, subjective, therapeutic relationship and a greater need for privacy than didactic education or supervision. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy with less emphasis on the working alliance and more emphasis on technique with cognitive learning as the goal would seem to be a natural treatment for the Internet. The object relations of the supervisory situation can foster professional identification through the process of idealization.
