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Abstract
Edicts within the Council on Social Work Education's 2008 Educational Policyand Accreditation Standards address the importance of understanding theintersection of personal and professional values. Twenty MSW students, chosenon the basis of diverse cultural and personal characteristics, were interviewedabout their motivations for pursuing a MSW degree and their personal and professionalvalues. Thematic analysis yielded an emergent model relating theintersection of multiple forms of motivation, encountering and resolving valueconflicts, and integrating personal and professional identities. Implications foreducation and practice are (1) the intersection of personal and professionalidentities should be explicit components of curriculum; (2) strategies for managingvalue conflicts should be an integral part of the curriculum; and (3) therelationship between identity integration and practice needs to be delineated.