This assignment has two parts: a paper on practitioner self-management, and an annotated bibliography of four articles on practitioner self-management.
Part 1
This part of your assignment should be 4–8 double-spaced pages. This does not include your APA-style title page and reference list.
Think of a situation, group, or person in a current or previous work environment that evoked a strong reaction from you. Reflect on the thoughts and emotions that you had at the time. Consider the impact of those thoughts and emotions on the situation and on you personally and professionally. Then write a paper completing the following:
- Analyze a personal cognitive reaction to a specific professional situation, population, or person, and analysis is supported with scholarly information.
- Describe the cognitive reaction you had to the situation.
- Apply scholarly research to the situation to help you analyze your cognitive reaction.
- Analyze a personal emotional reaction to a specific professional situation, population, or person, and analysis is supported with scholarly information.
- Describe the emotional reaction you had to the situation.
- Apply scholarly research to the situation to help you analyze your affective reaction.
- Integrate scholarly information into a plan for self-awareness, self-management or self-care.
- Using scholarly information from the articles that you will annotate in Part 2, create a plan for helping yourself in future situations where you may experience similar reactions.
- Apply principles and standards from a professional code of ethics to a plan for practitioner self-management.
- Citing a specific professional code of ethics from your discipline, explain the ethical importance for practitioners to attend to their own self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-care.
This will also count partly towards your assessment on the following criteria:
- Address assignment purpose in a well-organized text, incorporating appropriate evidence and tone in grammatically sound sentences.
- Format paper, citations, and references using APA style with few errors.
Part 2
This part of your assignment will likely be 2–6 double-spaced pages, depending on citation length and depth of annotation.
Search for scholarly articles on practitioner self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-care. As much as possible, align the research articles with your experiences within the situation that you describe and analyze in your paper. See the Sample Annotated Bibliography [DOCX] as a guide on format. Note: This sample includes only one article as a guide. It is intentionally unrelated to your assignment on practitioner self-management so that you can focus on the format and not the content. It also does not include a description of how the findings would link to a self-care plan since it is not about self-care.
Then complete the following:
Annotate four research articles. For our purposes with this assignment, in your annotations include:
- The APA style formatted reference.
- One to two fully developed paragraphs including the following:
- The purpose of the research.
- The theory base for the research if the researchers included this information.
- The research design.
- The data collection methods.
- The research results or findings.
- Describe the link between the findings and your analysis of your reaction.
This part of your assignment will be assessed on:
- Annotating four scholarly articles on practitioner self-awareness, self-management, or self-care related to a cognitive and affective response.
This will also count partly towards your assessment on the following criteria:
- Address assignment purpose in a well-organized text, incorporating appropriate evidence and tone in grammatically sound sentences.
- Format paper, citations, and references using APA style with few errors.