Introduction
It
can be a daunting prospect to jump into the first assessment in the first
course of your FlexPath master’s program. This assessment has been designed
with that in mind. The length of time it will take to complete this (and all
assessments) will vary from learner to learner, but remember that you may
submit each assessment up to three times, making changes and improvements based
on feedback from your faculty. It’s important to have a vision of what you want
to achieve when beginning an academic program. This assessment will help you
clarify your vision.
Note: The assessments in this course build upon one another, so you
are strongly encouraged to complete them in sequence
Overview
Creating a plan for your career is like planning a journey.
The more clearly you can envision the destination, the easier it is to lay out
the path in front of you. When working through the resources for this
assessment, you used critical thinking to explore your passions and interests
in psychology in relation to the practitioner-scholar model. This assessment
asks you to put your ideas together in your vision as a multicultural
practitioner-scholar. The assessment also provides an opportunity to receive feedback
from your instructor to help you further clarify your vision of your future in
the field of psychology.
Introduction
Use this space and
information from the Articulating Your Purpose media
activity to create an introduction to your paper that addresses the following:
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Explain your passion and interest in psychology and how these
relate to your previous personal and professional experiences.
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Provide contextual information someone else would need to know
to fully understand your vision.
o This
could include your previous personal and professional experiences related to
your vision, any major influences that led you to psychology and your
specialization, why your passions and interests in psychology are important to
you, and any other relevant information to provide context for your vision.
Assessing the Value of
Resources
In this section, discuss
how you assessed the value of the resources you read and used when writing up
this paper. Make sure to address the following:
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Discuss why it is important to consider diversity, equity, and
inclusion when conducting psychological studies.
·
When diverse populations are used in research groups, how does
that make the results more credible?
·
What role do critical thinking and ethics play when assessing
the value of research used in your papers?
Role As a Multicultural
Practitioner-Scholar
In this section, reflect
on the information you read regarding the practitioner-scholar and
scholar-practitioner models to answer the following:
·
Discuss critical thinking in relation to your role as a
practitioner-scholar.
·
Explain what it will mean to you to be a multicultural
practitioner-scholar and how the practitioner-scholar model can help guide you
in developing the knowledge, skills, and competencies you will need to reach
your professional vision and goals.
Vision
In this section, develop
an inspiring description of your future career vision as a multicultural
psychology practitioner-scholar. Be sure to include a description of your role
and the individuals you wish to impact and the setting in which you would like
to work.
Conclusion
Use this section to
explain the benefits of achieving your future career vision and becoming a
multicultural practitioner-scholar in the field of psychology and the
importance and relevance of your vision and goals to your personal and
professional aspirations. Also, describe how confident you are and committed to
achieving your multicultural psychology practitioner-scholar vision. Think of
this paragraph as a summary of important and relevant elements to motivate
yourself to achieve your vision. Reference any supporting documents that helped
you clarify or describe these elements.
Your completed assessment
should include the following:
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Title page.
·
Abstract: A concise summary of
every main point in the paper.
·
Introduction: A concise overview of
the paper’s content.
·
Body of paper:
o Introduction.
o Assessing
the Value of Research.
o Role As
a Multicultural Practitioner-Scholar.
o Vision.
o Conclusion:
A concise summary of important points of the paper, explaining the benefits of
achieving your future career vision and becoming an effective multicultural
practitioner-scholar in the field of psychology.
·
References.