The Development of Professional Identity in Clinical Psychologists: A Scoping Review.

Clinical psychologists recognise their professional identities as being interrelated with their personal identities and changing over time. They recognised professional identity as important yet inadequately considered in the profession. The research area is emerging yet remains under-theorised and requires improved research methodologies. Future theoretically-informed research is required to build up a credible research base to better understand the development of clinical psychologists' professional identities so that this process can be facilitated to enable the realisation of healthcare reforms.