ABSTRACT
The supervisee's role begins with his or her basic or general attitude towards the supervision and the supervisor. A supervisee should also be prepared to ask questions geared towards his or her enlightenment and to speak up when he or she feels a sense of disagreement with the position adopted by the supervisor. The training situation asks the supervisee to trust both himself or herself and the supervisor, and to recognize and accept the inevitable pains of learning—especially when it comes to psychotherapy and takes place in, of all settings, an evaluative training program. Supervisees, as is true of many supervisors, consciously have lax and unclear views of the structure of the supervisory situation. Some supervisees feel inhibited with regard to asking questions of, or challenging, their supervisors' teachings and ideas. The supervisee must develop an inner template of encoded validation from his or her patients and also consistently apply this criterion to all supervisory interventions.
