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PSY5002 Foundations of Theory and Practice for Master's Psychology Learners

Week 1 Discussion     

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What did you learn about this week that grabbed your attention or caused you to think more deeply about it? You may have come to Capella with a strong understanding of what you would like to do with your master’s degree, or maybe you are still in the exploring stage. Either way, now, at the beginning of your journey, is a good time to start developing and refining your vision for your career in psychology. Use what you learned from the Articulating Your Purpose activity and what you learned about being a practitioner-scholar to complete this discussion.

What interested you about the role of a practitioner-scholar within the field of psychology.

Write a paragraph summarizing your vision of your career as a practitioner-scholar in psychology.

Be sure to include information from the Articulating Your Purpose activity.

Consider how the scholar-practitioner learning model can guide your professional development, encouraging you to investigate and critically evaluate relevant theory and research to determine effective best practices that you will use on the job.

How does your role as a practitioner-scholar impact your time management action plan? Based on your results on the time management action plan, what adjustments do you think you will need to make to succeed in your studies?

How does University Policy 4.02.02: Learner Code of Conduct apply to your ethics as a practitioner-scholar?

Note: In your discussion posts and responses, be sure to follow the Learner Code of Conduct, the Professional Communications and Writing Guide [PDF], and the rules of grammar.

Response Guidelines

Discussions provide an opportunity to share your learning and experience with peers and receive feedback and support to continually challenge, clarify, and expand your understanding of course concepts. Read your peers' discussion posts and respond to at least two of them. Be sure to provide substantive responses to help your peers build on their learning. Reference any relevant assigned readings, additional resources, or professional literature to support your response.

Throughout all of your courses in this program, keep in mind that the objective of the response posts is to stimulate discussion, to promote an exchange of ideas among learners, and most importantly to generate a sense of community among learners in the courseroom. With this in mind, please choose a post that has had few or no responses; in doing so, your responses will increase the sense of community among your fellow learners.

For more guidance, see the following resources:

Discussion Posts and Responses [PDF].

Attributes and Evaluation of Discussion Contributions [DOC].

Section 1 of the Professional Communications and Writing Guide [PDF].

As noted above, when you interact with peers in discussion forums, consider adding them as friends on Capella's Campus. Go to your Campus home page, click Classmates to see your peers in this class, and begin to build your academic and professional support network.

 

PSY5002 Foundations of Theory and Practice for Master's Psychology Learners

Week 3 Discussion     

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You may not have thought about using the library as a set of skills, but those skills can save you time and mental energy as you progress through your program and in your career. Now that you have chosen your research question and begun searching the library databases for next week’s assignment, spend some time sharing your research question and your experiences using the library databases.

What topic and research question did you pursue?

How is your research question relevant to your passions and interests in psychology and to your purpose?

Reflecting on the Library Research Knowledge Assessment, what skill areas were recommended for improvement and what skill areas did you do well on?

What strategies did you use to locate relevant articles?

Did you find Boolean commands (for example, AND, OR) confusing? What tips would you give others for learning these commands?

What insights did you gather about your research question?

What conclusions did you come to about the role of research in your future career vision?

If you had any trouble selecting and refining your topic or creating a research question, use this discussion to receive support from your peers and instructor to work through your challenges.

Response Guidelines

Read the posts of your peers and respond to at least two. Try to choose posts that have had the fewest responses thus far.

Do you see any connections between your research question and others'?

Did you find any journals or resources that would also support your peers' research interests?

Were there any strategies you thought were particularly useful in selecting and refining your topic, creating a research question, or locating research that could help your peers?

Be sure to provide substantive responses to help your peers build on their learning. Reference any relevant assigned readings, additional resources, or professional literature to support your response.

 

PSY5002 Foundations of Theory and Practice for Master's Psychology Learners

Week 5 Discussion     

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What did you learn about this week that grabbed your attention or caused you to think more deeply about it? In previous weeks, you located and evaluated high-quality research to support your practice in the field of psychology. This week, you added critical thinking tools to your repertoire to further critique research and its relevance to research questions and practice. You were introduced to the following models that support critical thinking:

Bloom's Taxonomy.

Facione's Critical Thinking: What it Is and Why it Counts [PDF].

Paul and Elder's elements of thought from Analytic Stage of Thinking.

For this discussion:

What interested you about these theories?

How do they play a role in your personal or professional life?

How do you see them applied in the world around you or in current events?

How could you imagine using each model as a practitioner-scholar working in your specialization?

If you have any trouble understanding these models or the strategies in the article, Promoting Cognitive Complexity in Graduate Written Work, use this discussion to receive support from your peers and instructor to work through your challenges.

Response Guidelines

Read the posts of your peers and respond to at least two. Try to choose posts that have had the fewest responses thus far. What insights can you share regarding additional uses of Bloom's taxonomy or other critical thinking skills and strategies related to your peers' interests in psychology?

Be sure to provide substantive responses to help your peers build on their learning. Reference any relevant assigned readings, additional resources, or professional literature to support your response.

 

PSY5002 Foundations of Theory and Practice for Master's Psychology Learners

Week 8 Discussion     

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Ethics is a central concept to any career in psychology. Ethical issues are sometimes unclear, and solutions to ethical dilemmas are often difficult to determine. As a professional in psychology, it is important to know how to identify an ethical issue, think through possible solutions, and find the resources necessary to guide your choices.

For this discussion, select one case study from Ethics Case Studies by Specialization [PDF] that is applicable to your future career vision in the field. It is important to understand that these are actual, real life events that happened and that have ethical issues. Then review this week's readings on ethical principles, standards, and codes of conduct. Consider also the questions and information from your professional interview.

In your initial post, share your insights about ethical principles in psychology by responding to the following questions:

What do you see as the ethical issue or issues involved in the case study you reviewed? Cite the relevant elements from the APA's Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct or the BACB's Professional and Ethical Compliance Code for Behavior Analysts [PDF] to support your analysis.

What steps would you take to attempt to resolve the issue?

How does this issue, as well as the other ethical standards, relate to your future career in psychology?

What interested you about this issue?

Response Guidelines

Read the posts of your peers and respond to at least two learners who wrote about a different ethical dilemma than the one you selected. Try to choose posts that have had the fewest responses thus far.

What points do you agree or disagree with in your peers' assessments of the issues?

What about their proposed resolutions?

What other connections do you see between their future career visions and the ethical principles, standards, and codes of conduct you reviewed?

Be sure to provide substantive responses to help your peers build on their learning. Reference any relevant assigned readings, additional resources, or professional literature to support your response.

 

PSY5002 Foundations of Theory and Practice for Master's Psychology Learners

Week 10 Discussion  

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Congratulations! You have successfully completed the first course in your program. You are now one step closer to transforming your vision as a psychology practitioner-scholar into a reality. For this discussion, reflect on how far you have come in your understanding of the psychology profession and the actions you will take to make a contribution in the field.

In your post:

Discuss which course activities and readings were most helpful to you:

What useful career information did you came away with?

How do you think you will use critical thinking, research skills, and competencies that were emphasized in the course when you are working as a psychologist?

How do you think you might use the services of Capella's Career Center to help you stay focused on your professional goals, now and throughout your program?

Explain how you will contribute to your field and the welfare of your clients when you are a working psychologist.

Specify ways in which you envision yourself giving back to your community beyond practicing in field.

Be sure to cite course readings to support your statements.

Response Guidelines

Read the posts of your peers and respond to at least two. Try to choose posts that have had the fewest responses thus far. Provide supportive comments to congratulate your peers for completing the course and encouragement to continue transforming their passions and interests in psychology into a future career in the field.