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Write a 7-9 page paper in which you further define your vision, analyze the requirements needed for achieving your vision, and create an action plan to achieve your goals.
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PSY-FPX5002: Foundations of Theory and Practice for Master’s Psychology Learners
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Abstract
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be double-spaced and in block format with no left indentation. The seventh edition of the
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (the APA manual) stipulates that
an abstract should not exceed 250 words. The abstract is not an introduction to the subject. It is a
summary of every main point in the paper. For more information about the abstract, see Section
2.9 in the APA manual.
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Use this space to create an introduction to your paper that explains your passions and
interests in psychology and how they relate to your previous personal and professional
experiences. You may use your introduction from your Assessment 1: Your Vision as a
Multicultural Practitioner-Scholar as a starting point; however, develop it further to show
academic growth throughout the course (please do not just copy and paste). For more
information about the introduction and body of your paper, see Chapter 2 in the APA manual.
Application of Vision
Use this space to update an inspiring description of your future career vision as a
psychology practitioner-scholar. Be sure to include individuals you wish to impact and the
setting in which you would like to work. You may use your work from your Assessment 1: Your
Vision as a Multicultural Practitioner-Scholar and the Assessment 2: Program Planning Guide as
starting points.
Goals
Use this space to formulate and discuss personally meaningful and relevant educational,
career, and life goals to achieve your vision. Discuss three specific SMART goals that are
measurable and achievable and include timed steps to leverage current competencies and
overcome skill gaps and potential barriers.
Influence of Research and Resources
Use this space to explain how reading the course resources, journal articles and Career
Center resources has affected your vision. Discuss why it is important to look for evidence-based
literature to support your studies, including the types of articles you may need to find, beyond
peer-reviewed articles, to support your work in the field. Analyze how your knowledge of
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research will help you accomplish the functions, responsibilities, and ethics required of a
professional in your specialization. Include one additional source of inspiration, a scholarly,
peer-reviewed source found within the Capella library.
For more information about organizing your paper with headings, see Sections 2.27 and
2.28 in the APA manual. Remember to integrate your scholarly references throughout your
paragraphs. For more information about citing references in text, see Chapter 8, “Works Credited
in the Text,” in the APA manual. Delete this comment before submitting your paper.
Value of Networking and the Professional Interview
Use this space to discuss how developing and maintaining supportive professional
relationships will contribute to your overall academic and career success.
Specialization-Specific Professional Competencies
Use this space to describe the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for success in
your career path. Be sure to include common skills critical to success within psychology, such as
those related to critical thinking, decision making, problem solving, evidence-based practices,
cultural competence, and conflict resolution. Also, include ethical competencies related to your
specific profession. Finally, include any key responsibilities associated with positions related to
your future career.
Critical Thinking
Use this space to reflect on the importance of critical thinking and analyze the importance
of critical thinking and effective decision making as a psychologist, with reference to real or
hypothetical examples.
Cultural Competence
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Use this space to discuss methods and techniques you will use now and throughout your
program to establish cultural competence as it relates to your specialization and the future
population you would like to work with. You may use your work from your Assessment 1: Your
Vision as a Multicultural Practitioner-Scholar as a starting point.
Ethical Competencies
Use this space to discuss the ethical competencies related to your profession. Analyze the
functions, responsibilities, and ethics required of a professional practitioner in a specialized area
of psychology, integrating comprehensive knowledge of relevant professional standards and
requirements.
Specialization-Specific Professional Requirements
Use this space to outline the requirements for your future career, including high-level
Capella program and specialization requirements, credentialing, certification, licensure,
accreditation practices and standards, additional training, et cetera.
Action Plan
Use this space to create and discuss an action plan to achieve your career goals. This
means translating the requirements for your profession and the development areas you identified
into specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timed steps to achieve your vision. Discuss a
detailed action plan to achieve career goals that includes all the required elements including the
start-to-end duration of the goal or milestone, the goal or milestone being addressed, and the skill
and experience gains from this goal or milestone.
Duration
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Goal/ Milestone
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Skill/ Gains
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two years from now.
Complete Capella
master’s degree Program
Skills, knowledge,
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Conclusion
Use this section to explain the benefits of becoming a practitioner-scholar in the field of
psychology and explain the importance and relevance of your vision and goals to your personal
and professional aspirations. The conclusion of a paper should be just as substantial as the rest of
the paper. Summarize the entire paper from the abstract to the action plan.
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References
Author, A. A. (year). Title of article. Title of Periodical, volume#(issue#), xx–xx.
Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (year). Title of article. Title of Periodical, volume#(issue#), xx–
xx.
Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (year). Title of article. Title of Periodical,
volume#(issue#), xx–xx.
Hammond, M. S. & Brady-Amoon, P. (2022). Building your career in psychology. Routledge.
Your references for this paper should be scholarly articles but may include credible professional
websites or government sources. Follow this template for the reference list. Be sure to
alphabetize your references here and remember to use in-text citations where you use them in
your paper. For more information about references, see Section 2.12 and Chapter 9, “Reference
List,” in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Delete this text
before submitting your paper.
Note: Convey clear purpose, in a tone and style well suited to the intended audience throughout
the entire paper. Support assertions, arguments, and conclusions with relevant, credible, and
convincing evidence. Include in-text citations when needed to support statements.
Write a 7-9 page paper in which you further define your vision, analyze the requirements
needed for achieving your vision, and create an action plan to achieve your goals.
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You have reached the final assessment in this course. Soon, you will be on to your
second course. In this assessment, you will refine your vision of yourself as a
multicultural practitioner-scholar and you will create a plan to actualize your vision
and achieve your goals. The more specific you make your plan, the more likely you
are to see it through to a successful conclusion.
Note: The assessments in this course build upon one another, so you are strongly
encouraged to complete them in sequence.
This final assessment provides an opportunity to transform your vision into reality by
translating your exploration and brainstorming activities into a plan to actualize your
vision and achieve your goals. By now, you are a practitioner-scholar with a lot of
knowledge and insight into your interests in psychology and your career trajectory.
Preparation
Throughout this course, you had opportunities to clarify your passions and interests
in psychology practice and scholarship, to create goals to help you achieve your
vision, and to explore the competencies and requirements for pursuing a career in
your specialized field of psychology. To begin this assessment:
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Take some time to reflect on all you have learned about the field and ways
you can contribute to psychology, especially within your specialization.
Review work you have done in previous assessments that you could revise
and incorporate into this final assessment.
Interview a psychology professional in the specialization that is your focus.
You will use the results of this interview in your assessment.
Review the Your Career in Psychology [DOCX] template. You will need to
use this template when completing your assessment.
Example Assessment: You may use the following for an example of a completed
assessment and to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the
scoring guide would look like: Assessment 3 Example [PDF].
Instructions
Complete the following in the Your Career in Psychology [DOCX] template:
1. Application of Vision.
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Update an inspiring description of your future career vision as a
psychology practitioner-scholar.
Explain the benefits of becoming a practitioner-scholar in the
field of psychology and explain the importance and relevance of
your vision and goals to your personal and professional
aspirations.
2. Goals.
Discuss personally meaningful and relevant educational, career,
and life goals to achieve your vision.
o Further discuss three specific goals that are measurable and
achievable and include timed steps to leverage current
competencies and overcome skill gaps and potential barriers.
Influence of Research and Resources.
o Explain how reading the course resources, journal articles, and
Career Center resources has affected your vision.
o Discuss why it is important to look for evidence-based
literature to support your studies, including the types of articles
you may need to find beyond peer-reviewed articles, to support
your work in the field.
Value of Networking and the Professional Interview.
o Discuss how developing and maintaining supportive
professional relationships will contribute to your overall
academic and career success.
o Include information on what you learned from conducting a
professional interview.
Specialization-Specific Professional Competencies.
o Describe the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for
success in your career path.
o Include common skills critical to success within psychology,
such as those related to critical thinking, decision making,
problem solving, evidence-based practices, cultural
competence, and conflict resolution.
o Include ethical competencies related to your specific
profession.
o Include any key responsibilities associated with positions
related to your future career.
Critical Thinking.
o Reflect on the importance of critical thinking and analyze the
importance of critical thinking and effective decision making as
a psychologist, with reference to real or hypothetical examples.
Cultural Competence.
o Discuss methods and techniques you will use now and
throughout your program to establish cultural competence as it
relates to your specialization and the future population you
would like to work with.
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8. Ethical Competencies.
o Discuss the ethical competencies related to your profession.
Analyze the functions, responsibilities, and ethics required of a
professional practitioner in a specialized area of psychology,
integrating comprehensive knowledge of relevant professional
standards and requirements.
9. Specialization-Specific Professional Requirements.
o Outline the requirements for your future career including highlevel Capella program and specialization requirements,
credentialing, certification, licensure, accreditation practices
and standards, additional training, et cetera.
10. Action Plan.
o Create and discuss a detailed action plan to achieve career
goals that includes all the required elements including the startto-end duration of the goal or milestone, the goal or milestone
being addressed, and the skill and experience gains from this
goal or milestone.
11. Conclusion.
o Explain the benefits of becoming a practitioner-scholar in the
field of psychology and explain the importance and relevance of
your vision and goals to your personal and professional
aspirations. Summarize the entire paper from the abstract to
the action plan.
Review the SMART Goals presentation, Career Development Center resources, and
search the Capella University Library for additional reflective exercises and inspiring
ideas about transforming your vision into an action plan.
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 that you are meeting the criteria for the grade you want to
earn.
Additional Requirements
Your assessment should also meet the following requirements:
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Written communication: Written communication should be free from
errors that detract from the overall message.
Writing style: APA expectations for scholarly writing include the use of
third-person narrative, unless it is awkward to do so. However, because
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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
references list.
Resources: A minimum of five resources with at least three of them from
course readings. Your references may include both scholarly literature
and practitioner sources. 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!
Length: 7–9 typed, double-spaced pages, not including the title page,
abstract, or references page.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
Template: Use the Your Career in Psychology [DOCX] template to format
your assessment. Also see the Assessment 3 Example [PDF] for an
example of a completed assessment.
Submission: Once you are satisfied with your paper and have made all
necessary revisions, submit your assessment no later than at 11:59 p.m.
CST Sunday.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in
the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
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Competency 1: Analyze the role of the practitioner-scholar model in
guiding professional development.
o Update an inspiring description of a future career vision as a
psychology practitioner-scholar.
o Explain the benefits of becoming a practitioner-scholar in the
field of psychology and explain the importance and relevance of
vision and goals to personal and professional aspirations.
Competency 2: Analyze the quality of sources and research in
psychological literature.
o Explain how reading the course resources, journal articles, and
Career Center resources has affected vision.
o Discuss why it is important to look for evidence-based
literature to support studies, including the types of articles that
may be needed beyond peer-reviewed articles, to support work
in the field.
Competency 3: Analyze the functions, responsibilities, and ethics required
of a psychology professional.
o Discuss how developing and maintaining supportive
professional relationships will contribute to overall academic
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and career success. Include information on what was learned
from conducting a professional interview.
o Analyze the functions, responsibilities, and ethics required of a
professional practitioner in a specialized area of psychology,
integrating comprehensive knowledge of relevant professional
standards and requirements.
Competency 4: Apply critical thinking and effective decision making.
o Describe the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for
success in a career path. Include common skills critical to
success within psychology, such as those related to critical
thinking, decision making, problem solving, evidence-based
practices, cultural competence, and conflict resolution.
o Discuss how to apply critical thinking and effective decision
making as a psychologist.
Competency 5: Write in accordance with the academic and professional
requirements of the discipline, ensuring appropriate structure, grammar,
usage, and style.
o Adhere to the rules of grammar, usage, and mechanics.
o Apply APA style and formatting to scholarly writing.
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