This assignment requires you to gather a compilation of papers and projects from this course and previous courses and add them to your Professional Portfolio.

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PROFESSIONAL PORTFOLIO

This assignment requires you to gather a compilation of papers and projects from this course and previous courses and add them to your Professional Portfolio. The portfolio is designed to help you compile all you have learned throughout your undergraduate studies with the best examples of your work to represent what you are capable of doing when you graduate the program. This assignment also gives you a opportunity to reflect on what you have learned as a student of psychology, and to prepare to actualize your post-graduation goals. It will serve as a resource as you navigate the world of prospective employers and graduate admissions committees. The student portfolio is also a measure of effectiveness for the Argosy University baccalaureate program in Psychology. As you develop professionally following graduation, you can add work samples and other pertinent materials, as well as modify existing documents, to reflect that development.
The Professional Portfolio includes two main sections. A Professional Profile section that is completed by all students with either an Employment focus or a Graduate School focus, depending on your post-baccalaureate plans. The second section holds your Professional Work Samples demonstrating your abilities, skills, and competencies across a range of tasks and objectives. This section also includes a Final Evaluation of your work samples, yourself, and the psychology program.
The Professional Profile section summarizes your career planning and professional goals. You have already compiled the documents for this section in Modules 1 and 2 of this course. It contains the following documents:
A Cover Letter as a way to introduce yourself to a potential employer This includes details about yourself and why you feel you are qualified for the position. (Employment). OR
A Personal Statement describing your immediate and long-term career goals, including an explanation of why these goals are appropriate in terms of your knowledge, skills, personal characteristics, values, and experiences (Graduate School).
Note: The personal statement is attached to the Curriculum Vitae (Graduate School), and the Cover Letter is attached to the Resume (Employment), so take the time to be creative and not repeat yourself.
A Resume with list of References that is current, accurate, and professional in appearance. (Employment). OR
A Curriculum Vitae with list of References that is current, accurate and professional in appearance. (Graduate School)
OPTIONAL: A copy of your Transcript(s) The Professional Work Samples section demonstrates your performance and mastery of Argosy University’s program outcomes/competencies for the Psychology major. Select 3-5 documents to serve as samples of your best work in the program. Together, they should illustrate your mastery of all the 7 program outcomes listed below. Examples of the type of work that would illustrate each outcome is provided below, as well. The 3-5 documents should be samples of your work that you completed in previous courses as an undergraduate student.
These outcomes are listed below, along with the assignments that could be included to demonstrate mastery of the outcome:
Cognitive abilities (critical thinking and information literacy): Assignments or projects that demonstrate problem solving, analysis, synthesis, appropriate use of information resources, etc. Research skills: A copy of a research proposal, a survey developed, etc. Communication skills (written and oral): A topic paper, presentation outline, or PowerPoint that demonstrates your written and oral communication skills. Ethics & Diversity awareness: Papers that demonstrate your understanding and/or analysis of ethical and diversity issues in psychology. Knowledge of foundations of the field: Assignments, papers, or projects that demonstrate your understanding of basic concepts, theories, and empirical findings in one or more of the domains of psychology, including biological, cognitive, developmental, personality, and social. Knowledge of applied psychology: Assignments, papers, or projects from courses and/or an internship that demonstrates your ability to apply psychology to personal, social, and/or organizational problems. Interpersonal Effectiveness: PowerPoint presentations, videos of your presentations that demonstrate your ability to communicate effectively, appreciate diversity and cultural sensitivity and awareness of your impact on others. Once you have assembled your work samples, you will write a 700-1000 word narrative to serve as a preface to the Professional Work Samples section. This narrative should consist of a clear and thoughtful analysis of how each work sample reveals your strengths and areas for improvement, according to each of the seven areas addressed in the program outcomes/competencies (listed above). Towards this purpose, you will complete the Student Self Appraisal of Learningfirst, and then use that to generate the preface . Make sure you also address how you intend to strengthen your competencies in all areas as you graduate onto the next step of your professional career. On which areas will you focus most and why?
This preface should also include an evaluation of the Psychology program as well as suggestions for the program that will enable it to help future Psychology majors develop these strengths and overcome these weaknesses in the future.

Describe how personality contributes to generativity

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THEORY OF GENERATIVITY – DEFINE GENERATIVITY

Read “A Theory of Generativity and Its Assessment through Self-Report, Behavioral Acts, and Narrative Themes in Autobiography,” then determine your generativity score and level. http://library.gcu.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=pdh&AN=1992-33565-001&site=ehost-live&scope=site You have been chosen to present the impact of generativity on life satisfaction at a Psychology convention. You will need to complete the following: 1. Present a 10-minute presentation on generativity. 2. Your presentation does not need to be a PowerPoint or any visual presentation, you will present an outline of the information you would present. 3. Include a question segment in your presentation. Your presentation should include: Define generativity The theory and theorist behind generativity. Describe how personality contributes to generativity Describe how gender roles contribute to generativity. Identify your level of generativity. Explain how/what actions could increase/maintain generativity. 4. Give your presentation to at least four other people. 5. Administer the survey titled “Generativity Survey” to each audience member. How do you think your presentation went, before you looked at the survey results? Summarize your survey results, how do you think your presentation went, given the results. Did your audience ask any questions during or after your presentation? What was your comfort level in answering the questions? Where you able to answer all questions asked?

Listen and then submit Reaction Paper to interview Assignment Listen to the hour-long interview on Dr. Drew’s website and then write a 1 1/2 – 2 page reaction paper.

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Choose 3 models to discuss from 3 of the 4 areas listed above. (Do not select models from the same area). Compare the theories. What do some have in common? Also, contrast them. How are some very different from others – even to the point of being “mutually exclusive”? (impossible for both theories to be accurate at the same time) (5%) What are the advantages of each model for explaining addiction? What strengths and weaknesses do you see in the theory’s ability to explain the addictive process? Describe at least 2 strengths and 2 weaknesses for each model. (70%) How might the ideas in the model make sense to a particular group of people with addiction? (Describe the groups that the theory might appeal to). How could those ideas possibly make it more difficult for some addicts to understand and accept being addicted? Describe the groups that might find those ideas challenging. (5%) What ideas in which theories make most sense to you? Write a final paragraph defining addiction as you see it, based on ideas from your reading and your life. How has this project helped you expand your personal definition of addiction? (10%) Write approximately a 2 page paper (1” margins, no more than 1 ½ line spacing, 12-point font). (10%) Submit the first draft by the first due date. After receiving feedback (for corrections) from the professor, you will re-submit the paper by the 2nd due date on the assignment sheet. Links
Upload the first draft of the paper here at this link by the due date.
Return to submit the final paper at the 2nd paper link (see Moodle for next link).
3b.Final Paper Submission Link Assignment After receiving feedback (see attachments to the draft in your Grades), make corrections and re-submit your theories paper at this link.
4. Listen and then submit Reaction Paper to interview Assignment Listen to the hour-long interview on Dr. Drew’s website and then write a 1 1/2 – 2 page reaction paper.
(It really is an interesting interview so give yourself plenty of time to listen to it!!)
Include ideas from the following in your paper: 1. What “clinical models” do Jaffe and Kern draw from for their treatment model? 2a. What is possibly “controversial” about their model, according to Drew’s question? 2b. Do you have thoughts on this “controversy” in light of your own beliefs in “what works” in treatment and recovery? 3. What are some of the strengths you heard described in this model? 4. What is your overall impression after listening to this interview?
Grammar and punctuation count for 10% of your grade. (Click on the submission link to see how each of the 4 points above are “weighted” in the grading checklist.)
Submit this paper no later than the due date listed.

Don’t people develop patterns within family social and cultural systems?

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IS ADDICTION BIOLOGICALLY BASED? HOW DOES DOPAMINE AFFECT LEARNING?

3a. Writing Assignment Paper Draft link Developing a Theoretical Framework
Is addiction biologically based? How does dopamine affect learning? What about psychological influences, including personality and effects of trauma? Don’t people “use” to cope with unacceptable feelings or memories? Don’t peers and family influence behavior? Don’t people develop patterns within family social and cultural systems? What about how we learn? If you expect to get certain experiences aren’t we more likely to get them?
For this assignment, I would like you to read about addiction theories in your text (Chapter 2) and on the AMHC website to read more on theories of addiction (from Hester and Miller’s out-of-print 2003 book). Notice that the theories generally fall into 4 areas: biology (biomedical, disease concept) psychology (social learning, coping through self-medication, developmental, personality), sociology (general systems, socio-cultural, family systems) and spirituality (moral/spiritual aspects of addiction). Think about what they have in common as well as how they are different.
Choose 3 models to discuss from 3 of the 4 areas listed above. (Do not select models from the same area). Compare the theories. What do some have in common? Also, contrast them. How are some very different from others – even to the point of being “mutually exclusive”? (impossible for both theories to be accurate at the same time) (5%) What are the advantages of each model for explaining addiction? What strengths and weaknesses do you see in the theory’s ability to explain the addictive process? Describe at least 2 strengths and 2 weaknesses for each model. (70%) How might the ideas in the model make sense to a particular group of people with addiction? (Describe the groups that the theory might appeal to). How could those ideas possibly make it more difficult for some addicts to understand and accept being addicted? Describe the groups that might find those ideas challenging. (5%) What ideas in which theories make most sense to you? Write a final paragraph defining addiction as you see it, based on ideas from your reading and your life. How has this project helped you expand your personal definition of addiction? (10%) Write approximately a 2 page paper (1” margins, no more than 1 ½ line spacing, 12-point font). (10%) Submit the first draft by the first due date. After receiving feedback (for corrections) from the professor, you will re-submit the paper by the 2nd due date on the assignment sheet. Links
Upload the first draft of the paper here at this link by the due date.
Return to submit the final paper at the 2nd paper link (see Moodle for next link).
3b.Final Paper Submission Link Assignment After receiving feedback (see attachments to the draft in your Grades), make corrections and re-submit your theories paper at this link.
4. Listen and then submit Reaction Paper to interview Assignment Listen to the hour-long interview on Dr. Drew’s website and then write a 1 1/2 – 2 page reaction paper.
(It really is an interesting interview so give yourself plenty of time to listen to it!!)
Include ideas from the following in your paper: 1. What “clinical models” do Jaffe and Kern draw from for their treatment model? 2a. What is possibly “controversial” about their model, according to Drew’s question? 2b. Do you have thoughts on this “controversy” in light of your own beliefs in “what works” in treatment and recovery? 3. What are some of the strengths you heard described in this model? 4. What is your overall impression after listening to this interview?