Create a 3-5 page paper (not including title page and references) that communicates your ideas and describes your vision of yourself as a multicultural practitioner-scholar. Create your assessment in a provided template that will guide you as you respond to the assessment requirements.
Complete the following in the Your Vision As a Multicultural Practitioner-Scholar [DOC]Download Your Vision As a Multicultural Practitioner-Scholar [DOC]template:
Introduction
Use this space and information from the Articulating Your Purpose media activity to create an introduction to your paper that addresses the following:
- Explain your passion and interest in psychology and how these relate to your previous personal and professional experiences.
- Provide contextual information someone else would need to know to fully understand your vision.
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- Introduction.
- Assessing the Value of Research.
- Role As a Multicultural Practitioner-Scholar.
- Vision.
- 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.
- Your assessment should also meet the following requirements:
- Template: Use the Your Vision As a Multicultural Practitioner-Scholar [DOC]Download Your Vision As a Multicultural Practitioner-Scholar [DOC]template to format your paper.
- Length: 3–5 typed, double-spaced content pages. The title page, abstract, and reference list are not included in this length.
- Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
- References: Include a minimum of three references. For this assessment, you may use the resources and articles from the Resources sections provided for this assessment. All references need to be cited in-text, according to current APA standards. Remember that citations are to support your thoughts, not take the place of them!
- Communication: Must be clear, with correct spelling, grammar, and syntax, and with good organization.
- Writing style: APA expectations for scholarly writing include the use of third-person narrative, unless it is awkward to do so. However, because you are talking about yourself in this paper, you may write in the first person.
- APA formatting: References and citations should be formatted according to current APA style and format. Refer to the Evidence and APA section of the Writing Center for guidance. Include a title page, abstract, and reference list.
- Submitting your work: Once you are satisfied with your assessment and have made all necessary revisions, submit your assessment no later than 11:59 p.m. CST Sunday.
- Assessment 1: Scholar-Practitioner Model
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- This resource provides an overview of Capella University's expectations for learners at the bachelor's, master's, and doctoral levels.
- Consider how this learning model can guide your professional development, encouraging you to investigate and critically evaluate relevant theory and research to determine effective best practices that you will use on the job.
- Think about how it will help you establish a lifelong commitment to continuously building relevant knowledge and skill in your areas of interest and specialization in psychology.
- This assessment provides the opportunity for you to reflect upon the implications of the model for your program, your career, and your plan for how you will realize your goals.
Scholar-Practitioner Model
In this course, you will experience the scholar-practitioner model in action. Capella uses this model as the foundation for our educational philosophy. As a master's learner, you will work toward becoming a practitioner-scholar. This learning model will guide your professional development, encouraging you to investigate and critically evaluate relevant theory and research to determine effective best practices that you will use in the profession. It will help you establish a lifelong commitment to continuously building relevant knowledge and skill in your areas of interest and specialization in psychology.
To familiarize yourself with this model, read the following resources:
Practitioner-Scholar in Action
To prepare for this assessment and future assessments as a master's learner, refine and expand your vision of a career in psychology in light of the practitioner-scholar model.
- https://campus.capella.edu/library/home