Changes Impacting on Contemporary Professional Practice and CPE

Abstract

Attention has been drawn, especially in Chaps. 4, 5, 6, and 7, to activities focused on the professional associations and their CPE. While practitioners and their associations paid attention to these features, changes were taking place in the context in which professionals practice, ie. the world beyond their practice. In Chap. 6, four types of influences on professional education and practice in the 1980s and 1990s were identified. Six areas with a more contemporary impact have been isolated and are the major content of this Chapter. Their impact has been evident from the 1990s to the present. The variety in the six influences chosen illustrates how the context of professional practice has become much more complex in recent decades. The six areas of influence are: consumer protection, competition in the market place, the problem of risk, the global dimension, a new type of compliance and the ideological context.