Your Vision As a Multicultural Practitioner-Scholar
OVERVIEW:
As you continue planning your academic and career journey, the more clearly you can envision the destination, the easier it is to engage in a productive path toward your goals. You'll continue to work toward this plan throughout the course, with a focus on different aspects of that plan in each assessment.
Practitioners need to develop awareness of the implicit biases built into one's own world view based on contextual experiences and to develop openness to understanding other's points of view and experiences.
This assessment asks you to put your ideas together in your vision as a practitioner-scholar using multicultural awareness. It also offers an opportunity to reflect on and incorporate feedback that you received on your first assessment.
In addition to the resources provided, you can find scholarly journal articles on multicultural awareness and skills in the Capella University Library.
PREPARATION:
As you begin to write this assessment, consider the following:
- Purpose: The purpose of the assessment is to consider the role that multicultural awareness will play in your work as a practitioner-scholar and how this contributes to your specialized field in psychology.
- Sources: Locate at least three relevant professional and scholarly sources. These should be credible professional sources, such as textbooks and scholarly articles. Avoid using popular online websites (for example Simply Psychology, Verywell Mind, and similar sources). Use only information from published sources and not information generated from artificial intelligence. Your sources must be accessible to anyone reading your work. You will cite and reference these published sources to support your ideas.
- Writing your paper: Be sure to comply with the requirements stated below. Your writing in this assessment should not just be a collection of notes, lists, or questions and answers. Instead, it should be a well-organized discussion that flows logically from one idea to the next.
INSTRUCTIONS:
In your assessment, address the following, supporting the discussion with professional and scholarly information as you go:
- Explain the importance of considering representation of diverse populations when conducting psychological research studies.
- Explain how diverse populations are used in research groups and how use of diverse populations makes research more credible.
- Discuss what it will mean to be a multicultural practitioner-scholar. How can the practitioner-scholar model can be a guide in developing the knowledge, skills, and multicultural competencies needed for professionals in practice? Provide at least one specific example where multicultural thinking is important for a practitioner.
- Describe your vision of becoming a multicultural practitioner-scholar and explain the relevance of that vision to your personal and professional aspirations.
- Describe how the feedback you received from your previous assessment is incorporated into this current assessment and your plan for including the feedback in future work. Describe why it is important for professional development to be open to feedback from instructors, supervisors, or mentors.
Complete the following in the Your Vision As a Multicultural Practitioner-Scholar [DOC] template:
Introduction
Use this space and information from the course resources and other professional or scholarly sources to introduce the topic of multicultural thinking in research and practice.
Diverse Populations in Research
In this section, discuss the role of culture in research. Make sure to address the following:
- Explain how diverse populations are used in research groups.
- Explain how the use of diverse populations makes the research results more credible.
- Provide a specific example of the use of diverse populations that has made research results more credible from a scholarly research article.
The Practitioner-Scholar Model in Guiding Multicultural Practice
In this section, analyze what it will mean to be a multicultural practitioner-scholar and how the practitioner-scholar model can be a guide in developing the knowledge, skills, and multicultural competencies needed to reach a professional vision and goals.
- Explain how the practitioner-scholar or scholar-practitioner model can serve a role in guiding multicultural awareness, thinking, and practice. How can a practitioner use information from it to continue to guide them in their professional development?
- Provides a specific example of how the practitioner-scholar model can guide the development of multicultural competencies.
Vision for Becoming a Multicultural Practitioner
In this section, reflect on the information you read regarding multicultural thinking and practice and on the practitioner-scholar and scholar-practitioner models to answer the following:
- Create a vision of becoming a multicultural practitioner-scholar.
- Explain the relevance of that vision to personal and professional aspirations.
- Present at least one specific example of when multicultural thinking is important for a practitioner.
Feedback and Development
Receiving feedback from instructors, supervisors, and others is an important part of professional development. For this part, summarize the feedback you received on your previous assessment. Include the following:
- Describe how feedback received from previous assessment is incorporated into current assessment.
- Identify how the feedback will be incorporated into future work.
- Explain the importance for practitioners to be open to receiving feedback or constructive criticism.
Conclusion
Use this section to explain the benefits of achieving your future career vision and becoming a multicultural thinking practitioner-scholar in the field of psychology and the importance and relevance of professional development in your goals and professional aspirations. Think of this paragraph as a summary of important and relevant elements that you made throughout the content of the paper. 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.
- Role of Culture and Diversity in Research.
- Role of Practitioner-Scholar Model in Guiding Multicultural Practice.
- Vision for Becoming a Multicultural Practitioner.
- Feedback and Development.
- 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.
Before You Submit
To maximize your scoring potential, be sure you fully address all assessment requirements and meet the criteria in the scoring guide that will be used to grade your assessment. It is helpful to self-score your paper using the scoring guide before submitting to be sure you are meeting the criteria for the grade you want to earn.
REQUIREMENTS:
Your assessment should also meet the following requirements:
- Template: Use the Your Vision As a Multicultural Practitioner-Scholar [DOC] template to format your paper.
- Length: 4–5 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 area of 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. It the section where you discuss your future career and setting, it is appropriate to use first person in that section.
- APA formatting: References and citations should be formatted according to current APA style and format. See the Writing Center for APA resources specific to your degree level. Include a title page, abstract, and reference list.
SOURCES:
Use the resources linked below to help complete this assessment.
Cultural Competence
- Assessment 2: Cultural CompetenceLinks to an external site. reading list.
- These resources explain what cultural competence means in the field of psychology.
GRADING COMPETENCIES:
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
- Competency 1: Analyze the role of the practitioner-scholar model in guiding professional development.
- Analyze what it will mean to be a multicultural practitioner-scholar and how the practitioner-scholar model can be a guide in developing the knowledge, skills, and multicultural competencies needed in professional practice.
- Competency 2: Analyze the quality of sources and research in psychological literature.
- Explain the importance of considering representation of diverse populations when conducting psychological research studies.
- Explain how diverse populations are used in research groups and how inclusion of diverse populations makes research more credible.
- Competency 3: Analyze the functions, responsibilities, and ethics required of a psychology professional.
- Create a vision for becoming a multicultural practitioner-scholar and explain the relevance of that vision to personal and professional aspirations.
- Competency 4: Apply critical thinking and effective decision making.
- Describe the importance for accepting feedback and how feedback received from previous assessment is incorporated into current assessment.
- Competency 5: Write in accordance with the academic and professional requirements of the discipline, ensuring appropriate structure, grammar, usage, and style.
- Address assessment purpose in a well-organized text with grammatically sound sentences.
- Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references with few errors.