A review of the literature indicates some evidence for an association between early death of the mother and severe forms of depression in adulthood. The relationship of early parent death with later alcholism, other forms of depression, and milder effects within the general population also is suggested. A number of factors that may mitigate the long‐term effects of the loss are discussed. The experience of early parent death is conceptualized as an exceptionally visible representation of the capacity of the child to cope adaptively with developmental crisis.

The supervision of assessment has been greatly neglected in the literature. A model of supervisee development, from novice tn master assessor, is presented. The model focuses on the development of the ability to integrate data into a coherent formulation of the person being tested. Appropriate supervision depends on a matching of the supervisor's behavior to the supervisee's needs, as specified by the supervisee's current level of development. This development is dramatized by improvements in interpreting specific data points and in the recognition of larger patterns in the data. This skill acquisition occurs within the affective context of the supervisor-supervisee relationship as the interaction elicits both inter-and intrapersonal issues.

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