Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements -- Matters of professional identity and social work / Stephen A. Webb -- Key concepts and perspectives -- Perspectives on professional identity : the changing world of the social worker / Mike Dent -- What is professional identity and how do social workers acquire it? / Fran Wiles -- Materiality, performance and the making of professional identity / Torben Elgaard Jensen -- Constructing the social, constructing social work / Elizabeth Harlow -- Location, context and workplace culture -- Vocation and professional identity : social workers at home and abroad / Mark Erickson and Jem Price -- Risk work in the formation of the "professional" in child protection social work / Emily Keddell and Tony Stanley -- Identity formation, scientific rationality and embodied knowledge in child welfare / Melissa Hardesty -- Field, capital and professional identity : social work in health care / Liz Beddoe -- Interprofessional collaboration : strengthening or weakening social work identity? / Julia Emprechtinger and Peter Voll -- Commitment in the making of professional identity / Stewart Collins -- Professional identity in the care and upbringing of children : towards a praxis of residential child care / Mark Smith -- Professional education, socialisation and readiness for practice -- Shaping identity? : the professional socialisation of social work students / Julia Wheeler -- Credible performances : affect and professional identity / Jadwiga Leigh -- Making professional identity : narrative work and fateful moments / Maura Daly and Martin Kettle -- Professional identity as a matter of concern / Stephen A. Webb -- References -- Index.