This edited volume addresses the different methods professionals use to promote a critical
reflective and reflexive stance among practitioners leading to both a reconceptualization of
practice and its subsequent change. The goal of increased reflection in professional education
is intended to expand approaches for professionals to work with diverse others. It is also
intended to increase their levels of cognitive differentiation and depth of professional
consciousness about themselves alongside diverse others in a rapidly changing world. This is an
important issue in a range of applied professional programs from education to medicine social
work to psychology business to criminal justice in nearly every country in the world.
