IJSP Number 1, 2019

25 capital (Bucharest), the centre (Hunedoara and Deva) and the west side (Timisoara and Resita). For the counsellor role, χ 2 = 13,066, for a statistical significance threshold of p ≤ 0,01 (p = 0,001), o the descending order of average rates for this role was: the capital (Bucharest), the centre (Hunedoara and Deva) and the west side (Timisoara and Resita). In the case of the professor role, no significant differences were registered when comparing geographic areas, the statistical significance threshold being higher than the limit of statistical significance (p=0,064). Thus, the second hypothesis is partially confirmed. The analysis of the data shows that at the level of the sample of independent therapists and supervisees, the supervisor first has to perform the role of counsellor and then consultant one. As regards the counsellor role, if we consider the discriminative model proposed by Bernard (1977, 1979) by Luke and Bernard (2006), this role is required and preferred by all supervisees and independent therapists in the sample of this study, because it targets the three points central: intervention skills, conceptualization skills and personalization skills. Intervention skills are concretized for [7]: - the counsellor role – refers to the fact that the supervisor must help his/her supervisee in identifying objectives in the session with the client and help him/her improve argumentative abilities; - the consultant role – refers to the fact that the supervisor must validate his/her supervisee, if the latter one has selects or not an appropriate technique and how can he/she proceed in the future in order to develop that technique. Conceptualization skills are concretized for: - the counsellor role – refers to the fact that the supervisor must help his/her supervisee in establishing realist objectives with the client; - the consultant role – refers to the fact that the supervisor must help his/her supervisee identify on his/her own other modalities of therapeutic intervention. Personalization skills are concretized for: - the counsellor role – refers to the fact that the supervisor must help his/her supervisee become aware of parallel processes in therapy and supervision, of the transfers and countertransfer with the client and with the supervisor; - the consultant role – refers to the fact that the supervisor must help his/her supervisee identify the category of difficult client and to discover the main difficulties appeared in work with different client categories (children, elderly, delinquent etc.).