A research project concerning professional behaviour and development has been conducted with professional staff in kindergarten working with group integration of handicapped children. This report, based on a modified survey-study generated from a model describing professioanal competence (Forslund, 1993). In the results, the personell describes their own concept of their professional competence in terms of goals, ethics, theoretical base, set of methods, decision-making and evaluation and also gives their opinions of factors hindering and facilitating a high quality professional work.