Group telephone consultation after online self-administered training: Acceptability and feasibility.

Although there is growing support for the integration of Internet-based and in-person modalities for teaching clinical skills in psychology, few studies have examined the benefits of widely scalable complementary telephone-based strategies. This study was an investigation of the feasibility and acceptability of a group telephone-consultation protocol used within a large, randomized trial of online cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) training. Posttraining-feedback questionnaires collected from consultees indicated that they found telephone consultation to be both feasible and acceptable in acquiring clinical skills. A mixed-methods review of the feedback-questionnaire data along with qualitative analysis of posttraining-consultant interviews revealed key findings about the structure, format, and function of consultation, as well as barriers to successful implementation. Based on these findings, telephone consultation is a promising methodology for enhancing large-scale, online clinical training in psychology.