ABSTRACT
This postscript presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book shows that to perform well in professional role is not simply to be a competent functionary or technician who follows officially prescribed occupational rules, but a person of some moral virtue in terms of character traits as honesty, justice, and so on. It indicates that such virtues as compassion and trust are cognitively and affectively complex, requiring proper cultivation of moral emotions under the guidance of that capacity for good. The book is concerned with the practical contributions that different forms of professional research and intervention have made or might have to make towards more character or virtue-focused professional practice. It also indicates that supportive practitioner training or mentoring of new recruits by senior colleagues in the practical contexts of professional conduct are undoubtedly conducive to the enhancement of situated moral wisdom and the formation of corresponding qualities of virtuous character.
