Building a Professional IdentityReflective DiscussionH.docx

Building a Professional Identity
Reflective Discussion
How can you take the information in this unit, using your
professional interests and background, and factoring in your
doctoral degree, and begin to create discrete action steps to
proactively build your professional identity?
Begin by working through the Career
Planning Checklist
uploaded below in this unit's second study:
In what areas have you already taken action? Briefly provide
examples.
What areas have you not yet considered? Describe ideas that
might work for you.
What kinds of action steps would make sense in the next few
weeks or months?
DISCUSSION 2
Your Career Planning Checklist
Cross-Specialization Discussion

Customize the Career Planning Checklist to create an active,
ongoing plan for your own career. Each aspect of the checklist
represents a piece of the puzzle of building your professional
experience and reputation, so that each aspect presents an
opportunity for you to put yourself in a stronger position to
pursue the kind of future that you want.
For example, for the second aspect of the checklist, professional
affiliation membership and involvement, most learners in this
course would include the APA. Depending on your career
direction, though, you might choose to focus on a particular
division within APA. If your specialization is educational
psychology, you might naturally gravitate toward APA's
Division 15, Educational Psychology, and focus more of your
efforts there. Choose at least two aspects of each time frame
within the checklist (Early in Your Program, Mid-Way Through
Your Program, and Late in Your Program) and customize their
focus for your career direction.
For your initial post in this discussion, attach your customized
Career Planning Checklist, along with a brief paragraph
explaining how your customizations fit your career interests.
DISCUSSION 3
RESPOND TO STUDENT POST
In each case, reflect on the learner's analysis. Do you see a
consistency between the learner's analysis in Parts 1 and 2? If
not, point out anything that appears inconsistent. If you do see
consistency, what values seem to guide the learner in both
parts? Your responses are expected to be substantive in nature
and should reference the assigned readings or other professional

literature, as applicable, to support your views.
Richild post
I am not surprised at the results of this study, Students have
their own reasons for why they do what they do when it comes
to plagiarism. I do agree that there are three group types.
Students who chose to cheat their way through tend to have
excuses why they can not do their work on there own. As far as
writing the proper citing it can quickly become a form of
plagiarism. I myself have issues at times making sure that My
citing is properly written. I think dishonest is world wide
because we are all humans and sometimes under pressure we
tend to want to take the easy way out. So it is important as
students everywhere to have the awareness of learning the
proper way to write a paper and cite. When you are writing and
you decide to use words or information from a source it is
important to give credit to the source. The reason it is world
wide is because it is important for students all around and not
just students but anyone who is researching information. My
role as Capella academic community is to continue to spread
awareness of the proper way to cite and write a paper. I have a
duty to encourage my peers to continue to be honest and take
pride in their work. For instance, at workI have to make a lot of
ethical disussions. Each failure to practice value-based
workplace ethics affects your self-image and what you stand for
far more than it affects your coworkers. But the effect of your
behavior on your fellow employees is real, tangible, and
unpredictable, too. The solution? Change the behavior, of
course. You may never have thought of these actions as
problems with ethical behavior, but they are. And, all of them
affect your coworkers in negative ways. On example where I
may judge is if a person is doing something that they know is
wrong and continue to victimize the situation. In my upbringing
we were thought to learn from our wrongs and keep going, just

don't make the same mistake twice. I try my best to keep my
opinions that are not so positive to myself , but still provide my
peers or others with constructive criticism. I would come into
the situation very open-minded and try to view the other's point
of view, than try to understand their concept. If others do not
understand I will articulate it to the best of my abilities so that,
that individual understands.
REPLY QUOTE
1 day agoSherita Freeman
RE: general- Richild Morgan
COLLAPSE
Richild, marvelous breakdown of why and how dishonesty
exists. On an academic level, I do agree that many reasons exist
behind why individuals do not adhere to guidelines. This week's
scenarios displayed how a sheer lack of knowledge behind many
regulations can be the cause for the neglect in research as well.
When it comes to writing, I believe your personal view aligns
with the views made within this week's text. What we do does
affect those we engage with and this can be applied to our
research and observations also. Without the consciousness to
approach professional and personal situations with a particular
mainframe, we are prone to making situations worse. Ruscio
(2006) discusses how pseudoscience thrives because of the
practitioners willingness to implement common treatment, for
whatever reasons, despite the lack of or given evidence. Just as
our behaviors affect those around us, the actions we take in our
professions have influences and consequences when we forget

to abide by our purposes and values (regulations, limitations,
adequacy). The production of inadequate resources can be
detrimental to practices and patients, alike.
JIMMIE POST
The articles I read regarding ethics and unethical behaviors in
research took me by great surprise. According to Langlais (2006
p 1), this has been continually increasing given the heightened
amount of competition and demand placed on researchers to
produce such findings to substantiate their work. I understand
for graduate learners, still learning the concepts to understand
best how both integrity and ethics play an impactful part in
writing on a scholar-practitioner or practitioner-scholar level.
The articles did propose ethical best practices on how to
minimize and alleviate by providing sufficient empirical support
when citing to avoid plagiarism.
I think dishonesty is so widespread due to researchers practicing
improper behaviors, and they lack integrity by upholding the
standards that were supported in the past. I believe not enough
emphasis is placed on unethical actions and the consequences of
its results. Additionally, Langlais (2006 p 3) noted that it would
take the community of academia and graduate incumbents to
understand and help share in the awareness to teach
professionally ethical standards and the role it plays within the
workplace. Dishonesty can also become widespread due to
certain past beliefs and cultural upbringing that may contend
with the practical teachings of ethics and the role it plays in
research.
My role in the Capella academia community is to understand,
practice, and uphold the professional standards of integrity set

forth by the University as well within the APA Psychology
community. It is a privilege to be able to learn and research
within a doctoral learning program. Therefore, the role I play is
to display best practices and use resources in the field to avoid
any mishaps at it pertains to plagiarism. As part of my
acceptance into the doctoral program, I acknowledged that I am
accepting to be held accountable to the standards applicable in
the APA community and I will follow the academic principles
of ethical behaviors in interpreting written information as well
as within my writings.
As a Human Resources professional, each day, I am confronted
with decisions that entail the ability to assess and evaluate
outcomes in an ethical manner. Employees are the fabric of
organizations as an HR professional; it is my conscious duty to
operate in the best interest of not only the employer but also as
an advocate for the employees. For example, each year, our
organization launches an annual, global employee engagement
survey. As part of the survey process, practitioners are trained
and responsible for ensuring a level of autonomy and
confidentiality to uphold to provide a level of anonymity - in
which trust is created.
One situation in which I might be vulnerable to judging others
based on my values is to do what you say you are going to do. I
am a proponent of accountability, and as discussed in the prior
post, mindfulness comes to mind when if someone says they are
going to do something my expectation is that it either happens
or response is given in advance as to other alternatives and
timeframe. Setting reasonable expectations will help minimize
the risk for the right actions, which ultimately will allow for
accountability.

Langlais, P. J. (2006). Ethics for the next generation. The
Chronicle of Higher Education, 52(19), B11. Retrieved from
http://library.capella.edu/login?qurl=https%3A%2F%2Fsearch.p
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Ruscio, J. Critical Thinking in Psychology: Separating Sense
from Nonsense. [Capella]. Retrieved from
https://capella.vitalsource.com/#/books/9781133637516/
REPLY QUOTE
1 day agoSherita Freeman
RE: U08D1 - IO Jimmie Jones
COLLAPSE
Jimmie, I enjoyed your explanation of the article you used in
relation to how my personal understanding of the literature was
conveyed in my own post. Ruscio (2006) heavily discussed how
the beliefs of the field's forefathers and practitioners still
influence our approaches to modern application and
understanding. This can be detrimental not only during
engagements but also to how the field continues to develop,
apply and justify its advancements. I believe dishonesty is just
the root for the behaviors witnessed when professionals abandon
the need for evidence, research, sustainability and
accountability. No matter the personal reasons, time, money,
accolades or control, we as professionals must remember to

retain the morals, values and goals of our field's purpose. Your
understanding of this does align with your practices as it serves
to establish the trait through a method that can be observed,
applied through honest* practice and measured for the sake of
educating others on accountability.

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