Past work has shown that professionals have different patterns of interpersonal
contacts in different settings. Verbal defining constitutes one unstudied aspect ofsuch
contacts. This article uses certam attributes of a juvenile court setting to formulate
hypotheses on the relative importance of 6 measures of professional identity and
10 kinds of defining. Pearson and canonical correlations support 14 of the 16
hypotheses in that juvenile court. These results point to the utility of a situational
approach to professional identity and defining.
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