Internalization of the trainer's behaviour in professional training

An important component of any course of professional training is the process by which a trainee comes to adopt a professional stance in relation to his patient, client or client system. This paper is concerned with the way a professional role model is adopted, maintained and developed, a process that should be clearly distinguished from the acquisition of specific skills appropriate to the profession, such as the use of conceptual schemata, selective attention, the ordering of data, manipulative skills, etc. The point at issue is: how does an amateur become imbued with a sense of identity, a set of values and an attitude to his client that marks him off from his fellows? In so far that in one segment of his social life he comes to have a special kind of relationship with those about him and to live life accordingly, he gives evidence of having been through a very particular socializing experience or conversion process: in one segment of his life at least he has come to look upon himself and those about him differently

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