Some Moral Issues of Mental Health Training in Professional Education

In a very respectable sense all education is preparation for practice. In the professions of health, welfare, and education, the so-called helping professions?practice inevitably turns on the handling of human relationships. This is obviously not so in the practice of experimental scientists, technologists, philologists or even sociologists. They are not trained to work with people though it will be envisaged that they will cooperate, or work side-by-side with others. For this reason the trainer of doctors, social workers, and teachers is in a special moral position with special moral responsibilities, such as the tutors in science, technology, and the humanities do not share. The so-called "moral specifics" in the training of professional workers must be made explicit, if they are to avoid indolence on