Description
As part of professional dispositions, it is important to grow in self-awareness. This assignment will create an opportunity to explore your personal lifespan development and how it contributes to who you are as a unique individual.
Write your developmental story from childhood to adulthood. Consider the factors that influenced your development in each life stage. Explain the impact of those environmental factors on your development across the lifespan using two lifespan development theories as a framework. In addition, evaluate your own wellbeing at different stages. Describe strategies related to wellness and resiliency that you used or use now to increase your wellbeing.
You are not expected nor encouraged to describe every detail of your life. Instead, focus on one or two developmental milestones in each stage and consider the factors that influenced your development. Only include information you are comfortable sharing with your instructor. The purpose of the paper is to demonstrate your understanding of the development theories, the factors that influence development, and the concept of wellbeing. While this exercise is helpful in increasing self-awareness, it may not be a comfortable or appropriate setting to explore trauma.
Preparation
Choose two developmental theories to use to conceptualize your case.
Review the articles you read regarding wellness and resilience.
Instructions
Use the Developmental Story Template [DOCX] to complete the following:
Introduction
Provide a summary of what will be covered in the paper.
Childhood
Describe events or circumstances that were significant during your childhood.
Apply both developmental theories.
Using that theory as a lens, how does that theory help to explain or better understand that experience?
How do you feel that it affected your development?
Adolescence
Describe events or circumstances that were significant during your adolescence.
Apply both developmental theories.
Using each theory as a lens, how does each theory help to explain or better understand that experience?
How do you feel that it affected your development?
Adulthood
Describe events or circumstances that were significant as an adult.
Apply both developmental theories.
Using each theory as a lens, how does each theory help to explain or better understand that experience?
How do you feel that it affected your development?
Wellness and Resilience
Evaluate your well-being at different life stages.
As you reflect back on each life stage, what wellness or resilience strategies did you use to increase your well-being? How do you feel that these strategies may impacted you at the time?
What are your current strategies for maintaining wellness and resilience? How will these strategies impact your growth moving forward?
Conclusion
Provide a brief summary of what you learned.
For this paper, you will need to cite and reference at least four academic resources that were used as the basis of your ideas as they relate to developmental theory, and wellness and resilience. One of these should be your text and the others should be academic resources from this course or the Capella Library. Refer to the Counseling: Masters Research GuideLinks to an external site. for help using the Capella Library.
Requirements
Written communication: Should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
APA formatting: Use current APA style and formatting for student papers, paying particular attention to citations and references. Refer to Evidence and APALinks to an external site. for citing and referencing tips.
Length: 6 double-spaced pages, not including the title page or reference page.
References: Cite and reference at least four academic resources.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
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Developmental Story Week 9
Your Name
School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Capella University
COUN5002: Lifespan Development for the Counseling Professions
Instructor Name
Date
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Psychosocial Development
Introduce this assignment in a short paragraph of 3-4 sentences. Describe what you will
cover in your paper. Remember to double-space between sentences.
Life Story – Childhood
Describe events or circumstances that were significant during your childhood. Be sure to
include social, cultural, and/or environmental factors.
Apply both of your chosen developmental theories. How does each theory help to explain
or better understand that experience? How do you feel that it affected your development? How
do you think these factors may have impacted your development as you transitioned into the next
developmental stage? Support your conclusions with the text and other academic resources.
Life Story – Adolescence
Describe events or circumstances that were significant during your adolescence. Be sure
to include social, cultural, and/or environmental factors.
Apply both of your chosen developmental theories. How does each theory help to explain
or better understand that experience? How do you feel that it affected your development? How
do you think these factors may have impacted your development as you transitioned into the next
developmental stage? Support your conclusions with the text and other academic resources.
Life Story – Adulthood
Describe events or circumstances that were significant as an adult. Be sure to include
social, cultural, and/or environmental factors.
Apply both of your chosen developmental theories. How does each theory help to explain
or better understand that experience? How do you feel that it affected your development? How
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do you think these factors may impact your development as you transition into the next
developmental stage? Support your conclusions with the text and other academic resources.
Well-being and Resilience
Evaluate your well-being during this time using a wellness model. As you reflect on each
life stage, what wellness or resilience strategies did you use to increase your well-being? What
are your current strategies for maintaining wellness and resilience? How will these strategies
impact your growth moving forward? Support your conclusions with the text and other academic
resources.
Conclusion
Provide a concluding paragraph for this paper, summarizing key components of your
paper for the reader. Remember to support your conclusions with the text and other academic
resources.
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References
Begin your references on a separate page with the heading above (not bold). (Delete all
these instructions after you finish reading them.)
You must have a reference for each source cited in your paper. Put all references that
you used in your paper here, in alphabetical order. Do not list a reference that is not cited in your
paper.
You should have a minimum of three scholarly resources, one of which can be your
textbook. You must use proper APA style to list your references. Below, please find examples
of hypothetical references to a book and a journal article.
Jones, S. A. (2015). Psychosocial textbook (4th ed.). Publisher.
Smith, T. J., & Yang, L. W. (2009). Wellness and resilience. Counseling Quarterly, 15(4), 300–
310.
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