ABSTRACT
On the other hand, the supervisor is responsible for the actions of a supervisee in a way that one is not for a patient, at least not legally. This means that, although it is necessary to promote increasing independence on the part of the supervisee, care should be taken that she does not take advantage of the situation and act without permission or support in a way for which the supervisor may have to answer. Ironically, while there are supervisees who beg for a dependent relationship and who are eager to be "fed" and led, there are also supervisees who have difficulty taking whatever one has to offer; they come for supervision, but seem either not to digest or to "spit out" whatever is given to them, and show no evidence over time of having integrated any learning.
