scholarly journals Exploring Counselors’ Personal Guiding Theories: A Qualitative Study in Portraiture

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Barth ◽  
Jane Rheineck ◽  
Carrie Merino
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Counselor Educators ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Counseling Relationship ◽  
Professional Counselors ◽  
Professional Identity Development

A personal guiding theory of counseling is an important component of professional identity development for counselors. We utilized the qualitative methodology of portraiture to explore how professional counselors understand their own personal guiding theories of counseling. Three research portraits are shared that demonstrate how participants use the counseling relationship as the means to incorporate their personal guiding theories into their work with clients. Implications for counselors and counselor educators and future research are presented.

scholarly journals Entering Academic Advising

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Michael McGill ◽  
Mark Paul Duslak ◽  
Andrew Puroway
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Academic Advising ◽  
Professional Socialization ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Primary Role ◽  
Professional Identity Development ◽  
Substantive Theory ◽  
Collaborative Analysis

Primary-role academic advisors come to the field from a wide variety of social, academic, and vocational backgrounds.  There are likely a wide variety of ways in which these advisors are socialized for the work of academic advising and in the larger community of practice of advising.  However, advisors’ professional identity development is under-studied, and this lack of understanding is an impediment to the emergence of advising as a profession. This article presents findings on professional socialization from a larger collaborative autoethnographic study of advisor professional identity. We present a collaborative analysis of our reflections on becoming primary-role advisors which includes nine interconnecting themes in an emerging substantive theory of advisor professional socialization. Though it is not generalizable, our model is a proposal on which future research can build.   

scholarly journals Defining the Digital Self: A Qualitative Study to Explore the Digital Component of Professional Identity in the Health Professions (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandon Ruan ◽  
Yusuf Yilmaz ◽  
Daniel Lu ◽  
Mark Lee ◽  
Teresa M Chan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Knowledge Translation ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Digital Identity ◽  
Professional Identity Development ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Web

BACKGROUND Recent medical education literature pertaining to professional identity development fails to reflect the impact social media has on professional identity theory. Social media is transforming the field of medicine, as the web-based medium is now an avenue for professional development and socialization for medical students and residents. Research regarding identity development in social media has been primarily confined to electronic professionalism through best practice guidelines. However, this neglects other potential aspects pertinent to digital identity that have not yet been explored. OBJECTIVE This study aims to define the properties and development of the digital self and its interactions with the current professional identity development theory. METHODS A qualitative study was conducted using thematic analysis. A total of 17 participants who are social media education and knowledge translation experts were interviewed. The initial participants were from emergency medicine, and a snowball sampling method was used following their respective web-based semistructured interviews to enable global recruitment of other participants from interprofessional disciplines. The research team consisted of a diverse group of researchers including one current social media knowledge translation physician clinician educator, one postdoctoral researcher who is regularly engaged in social media knowledge translation, and 3 nonphysician research assistants who are not social media users. Half of the team conducted the initial coding and analysis, whereas the other 2 investigators audited the procedures followed. RESULTS A total of 4 themes were identified that pertain to digital identity. In the first theme, origins of initial digital identity formation were found to be derived from perceived needs in professional roles (eg, as a medical student or resident). The second theme consisted of the cultivation of digital identity, in which digital identity was developed parallel to professional identity. The third theme that emerged was the management between the professional and personal components of digital identity. Participants initially preferred keeping these components completely separate; however, attempts to do so were inadequate while the integration of both components provided benefits. The fourth theme was the management of real-life identity and digital identity. Participants preferred real-life identity to be wholly represented on the web. Instances of misalignment resulted in identity conflict, compromising one of the identities. CONCLUSIONS Social media introduces new features to professional identity in the digital world. The formation of digital identity, its development, and reconciliation with other identities were features captured in our analysis. The virtual component of professional identity must not be neglected but instead further explored, as educational institutions continue to give more importance to navigating professional identity development.

Professional identity development in higher education: influencing factors

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alba Barbarà-i-Molinero ◽  
Rosalía Cascón-Pereira ◽  
Ana beatriz Hernández-Lara
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Professional Identity Development ◽  
Content Type

Purpose In the last few years, the interest on professional identity development (PID) and the factors that influence PID has become central in higher education (HE) literature. However, the knowledge developed in this domain has focussed on a factor at a time and on a degree or discipline, thus being difficult to have a general picture of all the factors that influence the development of professional identity in HE. The purpose of this paper is to try to go further by proposing a systematic and integrative conceptual framework on the factors that influence PID of HE students. Design/methodology/approach To identify the influencing factors on PID the authors used primary and secondary data sources. In particular, the authors first conducted a thorough literature review to identify the influencing factors on PID already studied, and second the authors conducted a qualitative pilot study through four Focus Groups to identify new factors not acknowledged before. Findings The resulting integrative conceptual framework considers the following categories of influencing factors on PID: social experience, educational context, perceived congruence with the profession, demographic characteristics, professional image, professional experience, personal development and self-engagement. Research limitations/implications The proposed framework constitutes a roadmap for future research on career development and counselling to develop in order to enhance PID at university. Nonetheless, this proposed conceptual framework needs to be validated with empirical data. Originality/value This paper integrates all the existing knowledge on the influencing factors on PID from different disciplines by constructing a conceptual framework to be validated with further research.

scholarly journals Accelerated Professional Identity Development Through Social Network Sites

10.28945/4614 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 065-092
Author(s):  
Sharon Hardof-Jaffe ◽  
Baruch Schwarz ◽  
Hanoch Flum
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Professional Identity Development ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Wide Range

Aim/Purpose: This study aims to uncover how Social Network Sites (SNSs) active users who are eager to be knowledgeable about a specific domain develop a professional identity, what practices they use, and how do SNSs afford professional identity development. Background: Some researchers have shown that SNSs play a central role in personal development, but there is a lack of studies tracing the actual role of SNSs affordances in professional identity development. Methodology: Seven participants were followed during a whole year; we examined their professional identity development based on data collected from interviews, cued retrospective reports, and online activities. Contribution: The study shows that SNSs create a new context for professional identity development, a context whose new characteristics bring specific actors to a spectacular development in their professional identity. Based on the findings we suggest a new framework of professional identity development with SNSs. Findings: We identified a wide range of activities and changes in the perceived professional identity. We found that there are four phases of SNS’s professional identity development. The study also uncovers the three aspects of identity development: self-presentation, around-the-clock sociality, and interaction with information. The model of professional development through intensive use of SNSs is validated by our reports on the actual behaviors afforded by SNSs. Recommendations for Practitioners: The conceptual framework displayed in the article can help educational institutions to implement SNSs in order to enhance professional identity development. Guidance will allow students to handle self-presentation, sociality, and information management. By doing so, the guides will help achieving meaningful SNS activities and encouraging students to be involved in their fields of interest, thereby enhancing their professional identity. Future Research: Future studies may examine the implementation of SNSs for the exploration process leading to identity development in various educational institutions. A few years longitudinal study may examine the lifelong professional identity development in varied SNSs. Moreover, in the COVID-19 world crisis when life is in digital spaces more than ever, it will be interesting to study the role of SNSs of professional identity development in the population that lost their jobs.

scholarly journals Defining the Digital Self: A Qualitative Study to Explore the Digital Component of Professional Identity in the Health Professions

10.2196/21416 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (9) ◽  
pp. e21416
Author(s):  
Brandon Ruan ◽  
Yusuf Yilmaz ◽  
Daniel Lu ◽  
Mark Lee ◽  
Teresa M Chan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Knowledge Translation ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Digital Identity ◽  
Professional Identity Development ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Web

Background Recent medical education literature pertaining to professional identity development fails to reflect the impact social media has on professional identity theory. Social media is transforming the field of medicine, as the web-based medium is now an avenue for professional development and socialization for medical students and residents. Research regarding identity development in social media has been primarily confined to electronic professionalism through best practice guidelines. However, this neglects other potential aspects pertinent to digital identity that have not yet been explored. Objective This study aims to define the properties and development of the digital self and its interactions with the current professional identity development theory. Methods A qualitative study was conducted using thematic analysis. A total of 17 participants who are social media education and knowledge translation experts were interviewed. The initial participants were from emergency medicine, and a snowball sampling method was used following their respective web-based semistructured interviews to enable global recruitment of other participants from interprofessional disciplines. The research team consisted of a diverse group of researchers including one current social media knowledge translation physician clinician educator, one postdoctoral researcher who is regularly engaged in social media knowledge translation, and 3 nonphysician research assistants who are not social media users. Half of the team conducted the initial coding and analysis, whereas the other 2 investigators audited the procedures followed. Results A total of 4 themes were identified that pertain to digital identity. In the first theme, origins of initial digital identity formation were found to be derived from perceived needs in professional roles (eg, as a medical student or resident). The second theme consisted of the cultivation of digital identity, in which digital identity was developed parallel to professional identity. The third theme that emerged was the management between the professional and personal components of digital identity. Participants initially preferred keeping these components completely separate; however, attempts to do so were inadequate while the integration of both components provided benefits. The fourth theme was the management of real-life identity and digital identity. Participants preferred real-life identity to be wholly represented on the web. Instances of misalignment resulted in identity conflict, compromising one of the identities. Conclusions Social media introduces new features to professional identity in the digital world. The formation of digital identity, its development, and reconciliation with other identities were features captured in our analysis. The virtual component of professional identity must not be neglected but instead further explored, as educational institutions continue to give more importance to navigating professional identity development.

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