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In a world where being a 'professional' is an increasingly indistinct notion under siege from scholars and educated laypeople, this interdisciplinary volume advocates the metaphor of 'becoming' as an lifelong process of forming one's professional identity.

"'Professions' are work collaborations in which representatives of certain vocations address the life problems of 'laypersons'. In such relationships, adequate communication between representatives of the profession and laypersons is crucial in addressing their individual problems. Accordingly, 'understanding', as well as interactional documentation of this understanding, is of considerable importance. The authors of the present volume, 'Understanding in Professional Spheres of Activity', address the documentation of this understanding in certain professional spheres. They examine the requirements for the documentation of such understanding and the forms of documentation used in the fields of doctor-patient communication, counseling communication, and organizational collaboration on a movie set. Conversation analytic as well as ethnographically complemented studies draw further attention to an examination of the interactional level in its socio-structural context, and to that end the study employs a combination of conversational linguistics and sociological research. This contribution is therefore important not only in terms of linguistics but also sociologically." (author's abstract)

Health professionals move for various reasons and for various periods of time, which entails consequences at various levels, ranging from governmental decisions regarding the policy of health mobility to shifts in mobile medical professionals' attitudes towards sojourning. The present paper looks into the self-perceptions of working and living abroad of mobile medical professionals. An online questionnaire was conducted in order to gain an insight into how mobile medical professionals experience living and working in a foreign environment and which factors make it easier or more difficult. The results suggest a close link exists between the perceived willingness to continue the sojourn and the degree of identification with the new culture, satisfaction with professional functioning and satisfaction with social networks. Even though the majority of the respondents feel well adjusted in their new working environment, they experience their social networks as inadequate, which sometimes provides mobile medical professionals with an impetus to abort their careers abroad.

The NSPCC has analysed evidence from serious case reviews to identify learning. In this issue, we look at the risk factors and learning for improved practice for all professionals working in the health sector

Table of Exam Topics -- Table of Rules -- Exam #1. 60 Problems and Questions -- Answer Key for Exam #1. Answers and Explanations -- Exam #2. 60 Problems and Questions -- Answer Key for Exam #2. Answers and Explanations -- Exam #3. 60 Problems and Questions -- Answer Key for Exam #3. Answers and Explanations.

They can't live with each other, can't live without each other -- Management as a problem -- Management as a solution -- Strategic management -- Quality management -- Coordination and cooperation -- Knowledge management and innovation -- Performance management -- Change management -- Beyond the one-handed organization

This article examines the working lives of creative-class professionals in the Global South using two case studies: university educators and museum professionals employed in Qatar. A small country on the Arabian Peninsula, Qatar is an ideal site for the study of professionals in a developing yet authoritarian nation. We argue that the cultural attributes of the professorial and curatorial communities, including creativity, autonomy, and intellectual freedom, are in conflict with the authoritarian political context, giving rise to professional dissonance. Professional dissonance occurs when the norms, values, and ideas embraced by a particular occupational group conflict with the norms, values, and ideas in the settings in which they work. To cope, university educators and museum professionals turn to five strategies—resistance, subversion, submission, conversion, and exit—although variations in the content and institutional structures of their work lead each group to deploy them in somewhat different ways. These strategies may be replicated in other contexts of high professional dissonance, caused by authoritarianism or otherwise.

Professional boundaries are the essential limits that protect a practitioner's authority and vulnerable service users and are particularly important when working with children, young people and families

This review answers recent calls to consider the transformative role of transnational professionals in contemporary globalization. It departs from the dominant perspective, which views professions as constrained by states' geographical boundaries and by organizations such as nationally based professional associations. Transnational professionals have particular characteristics: they combine high-level abstract knowledge, high mobility across national and organizational settings, social and cultural capital, and distributed agency to shape global practices. Over the past two decades, a vibrant research stream has emerged on these professionals and their boundary-crossing work, raising new questions about agency, territoriality, and power. We examine transnational professionals across a range of occupations and sectors, as well as world regions, extracting the implications for sociological theory and methods. We outline a scholarly agenda highlighting the opportunity structures and likely trajectories for those who locate themselves in transnational professional spaces, suggesting how they can be investigated in future research.

The many ways of regulating lawyers -- Formation and termination -- Aspects of an ongoing relationship -- Attorneys' fees and transactions with clients -- Representing entities and groups -- Incompetence : remedies for malpractice and constitutional ineffectiveness -- Confidentiality and secrecy -- Attorney-client privilege and work product doctrine -- Professional duty of confidentiality -- Perjury in civil and criminal litigation : the lawyer's "trilemma" -- Attorney conduct in litigation : forensic tactics, fair and foul -- The client fraud problem -- Overview of conflicts of interest -- Concurrent conflicts -- Concurrent conflicts issues in specific contexts -- Former-client conflicts and migratory lawyers -- Personal-interest conflicts -- Attracting clients : advertising and solicitation -- Associations of lawyers -- The organized bar -- The judicial role.