Professional Maturation Research Articles

District Policy Choices and Teacher’s Professional Development Opportunities

A comprehensive inventory of formal staff development activity and costs in 30 California districts yields a portrait of locally organized opportunities for teachers and reveals the policy stance taken by districts toward teachers and their professional development. Present patterns of resource allocation consolidate the district’s role as the dominant provider of teachers’ professional development; other sources, including the university or the larger professional community of teachers, are less visible. Expenditures reflect a conception of professional development based almost exclusively in skill acquisition, furthered by a ready marketplace of programs with predetermined content and format; other routes to professional maturation are less evident.

Cultural phenomenology and residency training revisited: a personal account.

A field experience in the Northern Galilee area of Israel is described by a Senior American Resident in Psychiatry, with emphasis on the cultural aspects of the experience as well as the benefits related to professional maturation. The author discusses the field experience as part of a residency education, invites other such experiences, and compares his own experiences with others described in the literature.

A Brief History of the Internship

The internship is the focal point of the transition of medical student to physician. From its origins in hospital apprenticeships, this experience of professionalization and initiation into direct patient responsibility has followed an erratic path. Modern US internships began in the late 19th century, and evolution of many of their characteristics has been determined more by socioeconomic-political issues than by consideration of educational objectives. The recent move to incorporate internships into residency programs is currently being reconsidered because there is a new appreciation of the role that the internship experience can play in the professional maturation of the physician.

Harry Johnson as a Social Scientist

Previous articleNext article No AccessHarry Johnson as a Social ScientistRichard E. CavesRichard E. Caves Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Journal of Political Economy Volume 92, Number 4Aug., 1984 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/261251 Views: 5Total views on this site Citations: 3Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1984 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Pierpaolo Giannoccolo The Brain Drain: A Survey of the Literature, SSRN Electronic Journal (Jan 2009).https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1374329Chris Milner Harry G. Johnson, 1923–77, (Jan 1989): 170–210.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09376-2_8 Abstracts of Documents in this Supplement, (Jan 1985): 1–1038.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-5787-0_1

Psychoanalysis at one hundred: beginnings of maturity.

We are celebrating a most significant birthday. Whether we reckon our age at one hundred or ninety, it is a time of professional maturation, an occasion for enormous pride in the achievement of psychoanalysis. That achievement was made under special circumstances, which have given a unique shape to our enterprise. But as we achieve maturity, we have begun to change in new and not entirely predictable ways, which call for new perceptions, the development of new attitudes, and the creation of new structures for our functioning. A new form of educational institution deserves our most urgent attention. It is predictable that the pace of change will quicken . It is part of our psychoanalytic heritage that we show the courage to face new realities and to find new adaptations which will insure the recruitment of bright young minds, the continuing advance of psychoanalysis, and our growing contribution to human welfare. I am optimistic for our future.

Development of a Profession: Field-Instruction Correlates

This article discusses field instruction in social work with reference to the development and maturation of professions. The premise is that professions go through phases as they develop starting with heavy reliance on the field for practice skill acquisition, proceeding to an equal sharing between the field and the university, and culminating in the assumption of major responsibility by the university. It is suggested that social work is in the middle phase. Professional maturation will require increased responsibility by schools of social work for the transmission of the skills of practice to students. Various approaches and formats to achieve this are discussed and diverse training methods, including service and training centers and skills laboratories, are described.

Social Work—Professional Mediocrity or Maturation

Quality education is needed at each educational level to insure competently trained persons who can help clients with personal, family, and community problems

Confrontation and the professional maturation of dental students

The professional maturation process through which every dental student sould pass involves perception and identification of his professional role. The process is complicated at many points by conflicts between the student's own professional role expectations and the expectations of his teachers or of society. Confrontation is described as occurring daily in the dental-school environment; many confrontational situations occur on an impromptu basis in the course of interaction between the student and his classmates, his patients, and the faculty. Other confrontational situations can be arranged deliverately by the dental educator in order to provide clinical and social experiences for the student which ordinarily would not be included in the dental curriculum. By taking advantage of the particular student-instructor relationship existing during these confrontational situations, the dental educator can reap perhaps the greatest reward to be realized from an academic career--that of being able to take an active role in the professional maturation process of his students.

The making of a psychiatrist: the resident's view of the process of his professional development.

The author reports his findings from interviews with a class of psychiatric residents. He concludes that for the resident, the role that residency training plays in the process of his professional development is very much a function of the types of relationships he is able to form with people in the institute (teachers, supervisors, fellow residents). Where the opportunity exists for an active mutual educational alliance, he experiences professional growth, maturation, and individuation. Where it does not, he is likely to stagnate.

Introduction to Social Work

Each chapter concludes with Summary and Selected References. I. INTRODUCTION. 1. What Is Social Work? Social Welfare. Social Work. Distinguishing Characteristics of Social Work. Sociology and Social Work. Psychiatry and Social Work. Psychology and Social Work. Counseling and Social Work. Social Work in the World Today. 2. The Evolution of Social Welfare and Social Work in the United States. Echoes of the Past. European Roots. Beginnings in the United States. Public Assistance and Social Welfare Emerge. Services of Volunteers. Social Workers Appear. 3. Education for Social Work. Social Work Education. Council on Social Work Education. II. SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE. 4. Generalist Practice and Introductory Theory. Need for a Theoretical Framework. Introductory Inner and Outer Forces Paradigm. Additional Model Definition. The Life Cycle and the Inner and Outer Forces Model. Social Functioning. Levels of Social Functioning. A Base for Generalist Social Work Practice. 5. Social Work Practice with Individuals. Work with the Individual: A Generalist Approach. Social Casework Defined. History of Social Casework. Trends in Casework. The Practice Framework. Methods of Social Casework. Problems in Social Casework. The Casework Process. The Multi-Systems Approach. 6. Social Work Practice with Groups. Historical Developments. Group Work Defined. Group Work Models. Formation of Groups. Selection of Group Members. Preparation of Group Members. Structuring the Group. Stages of Group. Group Work Settings. 7. Social Work Practice with Communities. What Is Community Organization? Beginnings of Community Social Work. Underlying Principles in Community Organization. Community Social Work Processes. Roles of the Community Organizer. Case Summaries. 8. Administration and Research. Administration. Research. III. SOCIAL WORK SERVICES. 9. Mental Health Services. Beginnings in Mental Health. Elements of the Mental Health Network. Essential Elements of Comprehensive Mental Health. Special Problems and Issues in Mental Health. 10. Social Work in Health Care. Definition of Social Work in Health Care. The Meaning of Illness. The Role of Social Work in Health Care. The Future of Social Work in the Health Care Services. Prevention and Social Work. 11. Social Work in the Schools. The Education Delivery System: New Approaches. Problems Plaguing the Public Schools. Beginnings in School Social Work. Social Work Practice in the Schools. Social Work Using a Group Approach. School Social Work and the Community. Working with Minorities. When the System Fails. 12. Social Security and Public Welfare. Government's Responsibility for Welfare. The Social Security Act. Aid to Families with Dependent Children. Government and Public Welfare. 13. Family and Child Welfare Services. Marriage and Family Counseling. Child Welfare Services. Home Care of Children. Foster Care of Children. Adoption Services. Protective Services. Child Sexual Abuse. 14. Correctional Services. The Social Problems of Delinquency and Crime. Social Work and Corrections. Social Work Practice in Corrections. Processes and Principles. Social Services and Case Examples. 15. Services for the Aged. Older Americans Act of 1965. White House Conference on Aging, 1971. Adequate Income. Appropriate Living Arrangements. Institutional Responsiveness and a New Attitude Toward Aging. Independence and Dignity. 16. Drug Abuse and Social Work. Misused Drugs and What They Do. Extent and Cost of Drug Abuse. Programs for Control, Prevention, and Treatment. Role of Social Work in Treatment. 17. Services with Minorities. Minority Problems. Social Services. Educational Developments. 18. Social Work in Rural Areas. Beginnings in Rural Social Work. Rural Social Work Practice. Roles of the Rural Social Worker. Rural Social Service Agencies. Distance Learning for Rural Social Work. 19. Case Management. Historical Developments. Case Management Defined. Case Management Research. IV. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. 20. Social Work: A Maturing Profession. Criteria of a Profession. Historical Background. Social Work Today. 21. Social Work Prevention and Enrichment. Social Work Focus on Prevention. Problems Involved. Examples of Prevention. Implications of Prevention. Social Work Enrichment. 22. Social Work and the Future. Professional Maturation. Increase in Services. Professional Identification and Visibility. Licensing. Spirituality in Social Work Practice. Changing Continuum in Social Work Education. Development of the Role of Consultant. Status of Social Worker. Private Practice. Case Management. Advocacy Role. Improved Public Relations. Rural Social Work. Technology. Expansion of Leadership Roles. Increase in International Social Work. Prevention. Enrichment. Movement for Higher Quality. Name Index. Subject Index.