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- Title
Forming and Developing Your Professional Identity: Easy as PI.
- Authors
Goltz, Heather Honoré; Smith, Matthew Lee
- Abstract
Health education and promotion specialists and professional organizations have worked hard to successfully establish and maintain the status of health education/promotion (HE/P) as a unique and essential profession and to solidify practitioners’ sense of professional identity. A professional identity is critical to a person’s sense of self: It is about connecting with roles, responsibilities, values, and ethical standards unique to a specific profession. Professional identity is a complex issue in the HE/P profession; the distinction between personal and professional identities has been debated repeatedly over the years (e.g., should HE/P professionals be role models for clients?). The purpose of this Tool is to explain the concept of professional identity; provide new, emerging, and experienced HE/P with a greater understanding of what it means to have a professional identity; present processes and benchmarks of professional identity development; and offer specific tips and strategies for developing and enhancing an HE/P professional identity.
- Subjects
OCCUPATIONAL prestige; CONCEPTUAL structures; HEALTH promotion; MEDICAL protocols; PROFESSIONAL employee training; SELF-perception; WORLD Wide Web; INFORMATION resources
- Publication
Health Promotion Practice, 2014, Vol 15, Issue 6, p785
- ISSN
1524-8399
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1524839914541279