IJSP Number 1, 2019

26 The interesting idea is that these roles of the supervisor are all perceived and “demanded” by all subjects: the counsellor receiving a first place, being followed by the consultant and afterwards by the professor role. 3.3. THE SUPERVISOR’S SELF-EVALUATION a. Supervisory Styles Inventory The supervisor applied the same inventory for a self-evaluation, the Supervisory Styles Inventory [7], the results in a descending order being: the counsellor role (6), the professor role (5,7) and the consultant role (5,42). It can thus be observed that the professor role is on the second place from the supervisor’s perspective, compared to the results obtained from subjects from the study sample, who position this role on the last place. The supervisor is a university professor with more than 17 years of experience who begun her university career and psychological work in her private practice during the same period. Studies have highlighted that academic supervisors are predominantly distinguished by the professor role (in their evaluation by supervisees), but the present study places the professor role on the last place from the perspective of supervisees, and secondly in the self-evaluation of the supervisor. Figure 1. The supervisor’s roles in the rankings provided by supervisees (Sample) and by the supervisor. The supervisor’s role as a professor has put a mark on her training, personal development, and to training and supervision therapists she has transmitted: the attitude of a practitioner-researcher (stimulating and mobilizing peers to write,