How would you begin to explore your concerns about her eating patterns, or would you? 3. What levels of care might you consider: outpatient, intensive outpatient, and/or residential?

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This unit contains a Journal Entry. Please respond to the following questions in at least 250 words or one page. Write your response directly in the Journal area.

In the past few years, researchers have explored food addiction as a public health problem. Experts believe that compulsive eating can trigger the same reward areas in the brain as drug use.

Read the case study underneath the questions about Maggie and her eating disorder and respond to the following questions:

1. What are the most important concerns to focus on first as her counselor?

2. How would you begin to explore your concerns about her eating patterns, or would you?

3. What levels of care might you consider: outpatient, intensive outpatient, and/or residential?

4. How would you discuss the addictive nature of her eating patterns? Or, would you mention addiction?

Case Study Maggie is an 18-year-old college freshman. During high school, she was an honor roll student and athlete, participating on the soccer and swim teams. Maggie is very driven to succeed at college, and is feeling the strains of being in a new place with high academic standards. She began to gravitate to comforting favorite foods in the cafeteria, such as pizza, French fries, and soft serve ice cream. She soon began to notice that her clothes were getting tight. Maggie became very scared of gaining the “freshman fifteen” and started working out and eating more healthfully. After she lost the few pounds she had gained, however, she decided she could stand to lose a few more. She began getting up at 6 a.m. to fit in a long gym workout before class, and began to make rules about which foods in the cafeteria she was allowed to eat. Maggie comes to see you at the university counseling center because she is “stressed” and “anxious.” During your assessment, you notice that she is very thin, and you learn that she has lost 20 pounds since she began what she describes as “just eating better and working out to be healthier.”

How you will use Capella’s support resources to develop the skills required to successfully develop your writing and other competencies essential to the profession and your role as a graduate learner.

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U10 7-9Page Paper

Vision and Goals

By the time you complete this final assignment, you will have gained a lot more knowledge and insights about your interests in psychology and your career trajectory. To begin this assignment, take some time to reflect on all you have learned about the field and ways you can contribute to psychology.

What aspects of your research affected your vision or goals? Given this, what topics do you think you would be interested in researching in the future?

How was your vision affected by the career information in your readings from your Career Paths in Psychology text and your exploration of the Career Center and other resources?

Revise and refine the vision statement and long-term goals that you developed earlier in response to the feedback you have received and your studies in this course. Update your Articulating Your Purpose activity to help support these revisions.

Professional Competencies and Requirements

Understanding the competencies and responsibilities involved with your future career in psychology is essential for preparing yourself to become a practitioner-scholar in your field. It is also necessary to understand any requirements needed for your specialized practice and scholarship.

For this step in the assignment, analyze the competencies, responsibilities, ethical considerations, and other requirements needed for achieving your vision and goals as a professional in psychology. These may include:

Capella program and specialization requirements.

Skills, abilities, and attitudes critical to success in the field of psychology, such as those related to critical thinking, decision making, problem solving, evidence-based practices, ethical integrity, cultural competence, and conflict resolution.

Make note of skills, abilities, and attitudes related to the practitioner-scholar model and the experience you had in researching scholarly sources in your last assignment.

Credentialing, certification, licensure, and accreditation practices and standards.

Ethical codes, principles, laws, and policies applicable to your chosen career path.

Self-Assessment

Reflect on your current competencies, previous experiences, and achievements that help you meet those requirements. Since you are at the beginning of your journey to a future career, you will have gaps in required knowledge, skills, attitudes, and credentials. Identify any areas in which you need further development to achieve your goals and vision as a psychology practitioner-scholar.

Action Plan

With all this knowledge of your vision and goals, and the competencies and requirements for the field in hand, you are ready to plot your course to making these aspirations a reality. The final step in this assignment is to create a revised action plan to achieve your goals. This means translating the requirements for your profession and the development areas you identified into specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timed (SMART) steps to achieve your vision.

Include these elements in your action plan:

Completion of your Capella program.

Possible opportunities for additional training or volunteer work to address gaps in your knowledge or skills.

Possible opportunities in your current position to develop additional skills through coaching or stretch assignments.

Capella Community groups and professional organizations that you could join for networking with others and completing additional informational interviews.

How you will stay current with the research and literature in the field..

How you can apply what you have learned in this course about researching psychological literature and evaluating it in terms of reliability, credibility, ethics, and value.

How you will apply critical thinking and effective decision making as a psychologist.

How you will use Capella’s support resources to develop the skills required to successfully develop your writing and other competencies essential to the profession and your role as a graduate learner.

At this point, there may be an overwhelming number of steps that you could complete to work toward your vision. If it helps you work through this plan, focus on major milestones and requirements as well as steps you can take during your Capella degree program to help translate your vision into SMART short-term goals and tasks.

If you feel the need for more input, review the SMART Goals presentation and Career Center resources or search the Capella library or the Internet for additional reflective exercises and inspiring ideas about transforming your vision into an action plan.

Additional Requirements

Your assignment should also meet the following requirements:

Template: Use the Your Career in Psychology Template to format your assignment.

Length: 7–9 typed and double-spaced content pages in Times New Roman 12-point font. The title page, abstract, and reference list are not included in this length.

References: Include a minimum of five references 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, and listed in the reference list. Remember that citations are to support your thoughts, not take the place of them!

Written 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: Must be formatted according to APA style and formatting and include a title page, abstract, and reference list. Note that these three elements are not counted toward the length of your assignment.

Describe the key competencies needed to be successful in the field of executive coaching. Discuss the benefits for organizations that utilize Executive Coaches.

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Great Executive Coaches are much like artists in that they utilize insight and vision. While the artist may produce an award winning piece of art, the Executive Coach may transform a failing business, build community among employees, and/or significantly increase revenue of an organization—all by working with individuals and teams to help them operate more effectively. It may be difficult for both the artist and the coach to see the full potential of his or her work until it is complete. In some cases, the results are not seen until long after completion. Executive coaching is a learned behavior and takes time, dedication, and effort to fully develop. To achieve their end goal, Executive Coaches must learn key competencies, guiding principles, and best practices of their profession. They must also be open to feedback from the individuals and teams they work with.

Write a 6-7 page paper (excluding title and reference pages), addressing all of the following:

  • Clearly define executive coaching.
  • Describe how executive coaching differs from counseling.
  • Delineate the guiding principles of executive coaching.
  • Identify at least one best practice of executive coaching.
  • Comment on the statement, “A coach must always be willing to learn from his/her player.”
  • Describe the key competencies needed to be successful in the field of executive coaching.
  • Discuss the benefits for organizations that utilize Executive Coaches.

Use a minimum of three sources in addition to required course readings.

You must include at least four peer-reviewed empirical journal articles, two scholarly website references, and one current article in a popular-press magazine (this may also be a television magazine–show piece).

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“My Lot in Life” project

Your randomly-assigned “lot” is that you find out that you have a genetic disease (you can pick a specific one if you’d like to research a particular disease more) and you would like to have children, to whom you may pass on your disease. You are responsible for finding relevant and meaningful material on this topic and using the material to write an integrated essay as to how your story or plan for the future would unfold, given this “lot” you have been assigned.

Please note that, given the narrative aspect of this paper topic, you are encouraged to write a least a portion of the paper in the “first-person” (i.e., you may disregard any APA style directions which forbid the use of first person). Put it in a guy perspective

Details:

The paper involves presenting the issue, identifying the relevant psychological theories and concepts, summarizing the current research, and stating why the issue is important. Your summarization of current research must identify both sides of the arguments or all ways of dealing with the issue; for example, whether to mainstream or institutionalize children with Down syndrome. You must also discuss how you would deal with this “lot.” The paper may not consist only of answers to these questions; it must be an integrated essay. You will tell the story from your point of view but will incorporate research about the topic that is informing your decision-making process.

You must include at least four peer-reviewed empirical journal articles, two scholarly website references, and one current article in a popular-press magazine (this may also be a television magazine–show piece).

The paper is to be 6–8 pages long, not including the title and reference pages. The title page, reference page, page numbering, and in-text citations must be in proper APA format.