ABSTRACT
Multiple relationships are complex. They do not always develop smoothly and a number of tensions and dilemmas may arise. In the best of circumstances, multiple relationships move in stages but sometimes they come to a halt, move backward and then again forward. By "multiple relationships", the authors are here referring to the situation where a systemic supervisor is in a supervisory role with a person and at the same time fulfils another role which leads them to come into contact with the same person. The dominant discourse informed by the profession's ethical code of practice is that multiple relationships can be problematic. In trying to understand multiple relationships in more depth, authors were curious as to how the Anglo-American literature discusses situations where supervisor and supervisee have multiple relationships and interact according to these roles in different settings. Male and female supervisees might also behave differently in the context of multiple relationships.
