Bobbie: A reference which you might consider is "The Handbook of Psychotherapy Supervision" by Watkins. My quick answer ( I view myself as espousing a mixed model of humanistic and CBT, as required by the client and issue) is that supervision, like therapy moves toward equality as the supervisee becomes more sophisticated in technique and in self-knowledge. Ethical boundaries need to be established. That may most efficiently be done by simply stating the established rules, or, more slowly, through Socratic questioning. I view reference to reflections of societal realities in the supervisory relationship as distracting from what I view as important - the therapeutic operations which the therapist is attempting to provide, (or trying to figure out what to provide). I don't deny that there might be an equivalence or a reflection - just that much consideration of that issue would seem to be an investigation of political science or sociology - if that's what is needed, go for it, but I don't see the tangible relationship of learning by the therapist of his/her relaionship with this client. I fully expect that others will have different views. I'm only responsible for me. Geoff Crealock Bobbie wrote: > > Part 1.1 Type: Plain Text (text/plain) > Encoding: quoted-printable %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%