“…For example, Daniskova (2014) suggests that teachers, while coveting professional status in one sense, should really be content with their lot as 'semi-professions' because the current tendency in teacher training is for the development of practical over theoretical skills, thereby undermining, once again, that all important theoretical body of knowledge that is widely accepted as necessary for the conferment of professional status. In the case of social work, Gitterman (2014) shows, historically, that whenever social work stands on the verge of accreting professional status, the social workers in question tend to jump disciplinary ship and start identifying as therapists or even psychiatrists, activities that have proven to be more symbolically and materially rewarding than social work. This is possible, argues Gitterman (2014), because of a longstanding debate in social work over whether the focus should be on the individual or his/her environment.…”