Professional Identity, Regulation and Formation—A Review of Values in Professional Practice: Lessons for Health, Social Care and Other Professionals

Abstract

Summary This review article engages with the themes of identity, regulation and formation found in Pattison and Pill's Values in Professional Practice (2004).1 The three authors are professionals who engage with the themes and uncover questions relevant to their own practice. These themes are also found in Contact 144 with its focus on professionalism and so contrasting views are illustrated from that source. The review concludes that identity, regulation and formation are linked by trust and knowledge/power. The institution of professionalism rests upon the possibility of social trust and also upon acceptance by lay people of the power conferred by specialist knowledge.