Personal experience

1. Write a one-page summary of your experience in the course and how being in this course will help you to succeed at our university.

2. Include the strategies you will use to stay connected with your professional and academic goals during your program.

3. Finally, describe one thing you will take from this Foundations course and apply to your first class to ensure that you are successful. Be sure that your summary follows APA guidelines.

4. Support your Application assignment with specific references to all resources used in its preparation. You are asked to provide a reference list only for those resources not included in the Learning Resources for this course.
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What this week covered:
Application: Personal Experience Summary

This week provided you the opportunity to reflect on what you have learned in this course and how you will apply this learning to future academic work at Walden.

To prepare for this assignment:
?Reflect on your experiences in the course.
?Review your Program of Study, Professional Development Plan, and Personal State Licensure Plan (if applicable).
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Each Week Break down:

Week 1: Walden Vision, Mission, and Social Change

Introduction

Welcome to the first week of your Walden’s Foundations Course. As you begin your new program at Walden, think about what you might need to get as much as you can out of your online learning experience and be as successful as you possibly can be. This Foundations Course has been designed with these questions in mind. This week you will explore Walden’s vision, mission, and outcomes, the concept of a scholar-practitioner who effects social change, and what all of these might mean to you. So now, get ready to begin your new journey!

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this week you should be able to:
?Relate Walden’s vision, mission, and outcomes to professional and academic goals
?Describe an issue of interest and explain how a scholar-practitioner might resolve the issue and bring about social change
?Evaluate Walden University Outcomes in terms of their relevance to studies at Walden and to becoming a scholar-practitioner who effects social change
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Week 2: Walden Learning Community

Introduction

During Week 2, you will find yourself moving from the sublime, so to speak, to the more day-to-day aspects of what you and Walden are all about. That is, you will look at what it means, practically, to be a part of the Walden learning community. What are the roles and relationships within the community and what are the available resources? What is the impact of its core values on its members? And, what can you expect of members of the community and what can they expect from you? You also will explore Walden’s concept of academic integrity and its relevance to you and to the community. Welcome to the Walden learning community.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this week you should be able to:
?Explain the meaning and expectations of membership in the Walden learning community for a scholar-practitioner
?Analyze the concept of a Walden Learning Community, the roles and relationships within it, the available resources, and the impact of its core values on its participants
?Appraise Walden’s meaning of academic integrity and its relationship to the development of a scholar-practitioner
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Week 3: Success in Online Learning

Introduction

Hopefully you are beginning to settle in as a member of the Walden learning community and are excited to move forward in your journey to becoming a scholar-practitioner who effects social change. In this pursuit, you undoubtedly want to be as successful as you can be in your online learning, whether or not you have engaged in online learning before now. To this end, you will focus this week on several critical learning skills as they relate to online learning: planning, time management, studying, effective use of technology, and effective online communication (including writing effective emails and Discussion postings/responses). You also will develop a personal technology contingency plan.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this week you should be able to:
?Evaluate and select strategies for effective online learning in the areas of planning, time management, studying, and effective technology use
?Develop a personal technology contingency plan
?Write effective emails and Discussion postings/responses
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Week 4: The Walden Library

Introduction

As you progress through your Walden program, you will find the Walden Library an essential resource that will facilitate your success. As a Walden University student, you will be asked to locate and retrieve peer-reviewed articles – materials that have met the highest academic criteria – and to cite them in papers that you write. However, not even the top research library is able to serve all the needs of students engaged in scholarly research. Thus, students sometimes turn to other sources, including libraries in other schools for their research needs.

This week you will be introduced to searching a Walden Library database and saving the results, to the concept of peer review, and to using nearby libraries, statewide systems of databases, and Walden Library’s Document Delivery Service (DDS)–

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this week you should be able to:
?Identify and describe alternate databases and resources and explain their usefulness to other scholar-practitioners
?Access, search, and download a peer-reviewed article as well as a citation and abstract from a Walden Library database
?Build the beginnings of a Total Information Network useful for research needs of a program and areas of interest
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Week 5: Foundations of Scholarly Writing

Introduction

Being an effective scholarly writer will enhance your success as a student at Walden and in your professional life by enabling you to communicate your ideas so that they resonate with your audience. But what is scholarly writing? What makes for effective scholarly writing? And what is a scholarly voice? This week you will explore the concept of scholarly writing, assess your own strengths and weaknesses in the area, and begin to apply the skill of scholarly writing. As you do so, you will consider the concepts of purpose, audience, bias, and evidence as they relate to scholarly writing.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this week you should be able to:
?Assess strengths and weakness related to using scholarly voice and scholarly writing and explain how to more fully develop or refine them
?Analyze writing in terms of its purpose, audience, presence of bias, and quality of evidence
?Apply the characteristics of scholarly writing to and use a scholarly voice in a summary and analysis of a research article
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Week 6: Scholarly Writing-Plagiarism and Other Challenges

Introduction

Writing, in general, and scholarly writing, in particular, can be a challenge, from overcoming writer’s block to recognizing and avoiding plagiarism, and everything in between. And yet scholarly writing is one of the keys to success in your program and in your professional life. During this week, you will continue to concentrate on scholarly writing, focusing specifically on the avoidance of plagiarism as a matter of academic integrity. In addition, you will be introduced to tips for writing success, including specific strategies for addressing difficulties commonly encountered.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this week you should be able to:
?Articulate strategies for addressing fear of writing, writer’s block, and other writing challenges
?Understand, recognize, and know how to avoid plagiarism
?Use paraphrasing in scholarly writing
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Week 7: Introduction to Professional Psychology

Introduction

During the previous weeks, you learned about Walden University, the expectations of the learning community, and skills that will help you to succeed in the online environment. Now, it is time to turn your attention to professional issues related to your program and to the School of Psychology. What does it mean to be a professional psychologist? This week, you will begin your exposure to the profession of psychology. You will learn about opportunities for employment, membership in professional associations, and other issues related to the practice of psychology.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this week you should be able to:
?Describe the characteristics of your chosen specialization or program
?Explain how a specialization in psychology can contribute to the attainment of goals in the profession and practice of psychology and the achievement of academic and professional excellence that reflects adherence to ethical standards
?Understand the opportunities for professional association in a particular specialization
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Week 8: Professional Development in Psychology
Introduction
As a new graduate student, you may be asking yourself, "How can I reach my goal of an MS or a PhD degree?" When you look at everything you have to do, it might seem daunting! This week, you will develop a program of study and professional development plan and thus see the value of putting milestones to paper and planning the journey ahead.

Learning Outcomes
By the end of this week you should be able to:
?Complete the Professional Development Plan (PDP)
?Complete the Program of Study (POS)
?Explain how to use the POS and PDP as a guide for academic and professional progress
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Week 9: APA Form and Style, Part I: Non-biased Writing, APA Form, and Editorial Style

Introduction

In your previous educational experiences, you may or may not have been exposed to APA style, or you may have studied it so long ago that you have forgotten what that even means. This week, you will build upon the foundation started in Week 6 so that you will be able to answer the question, "Why APA style?" You will also gain an appreciation for why standard formats are so important to professional writing.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this week you should be able to:
?Apply APA style guidelines
?Demonstrate an understanding of the use of APA guidelines and Strunk and White’s Elements of Style
?Analyze an article for biased language
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Week 10: APA Form and Style, Part II: References, Citations, and Paraphrasing

Introduction

If you were to invent a brand new way to solve a problem, you would want to get credit for it, right? Or, if you wrote a really beautiful poem and someone wanted to use it, you would you want that person to at least give you credit for having written it, correct? Giving credit to others for their ideas is very important in professional writing. This is true whether you cite something verbatim or paraphrase it. In fact, the skill of paraphrasing is useful in avoiding plagiarism. This week, you will review and build upon information you learned in Week 6 to learn how to use references, citations, and paraphrasing when using and crediting others’ work.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this week you should be able to:
?Construct a Reference list
?Correctly cite one or more authors of a journal article
?Paraphrase and quote correctly using correct APA style
?Apply APA guidelines
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Week 11: Introduction to Critical Thinking in the Social Sciences

Introduction

If you are like many people, you have many opinions. For example, you may have experience as a therapist, and your clinical judgment tells you that a particular therapy works with a particular type of person. How do you know that this is true? Because it works for one or two people, can you assume that it works for everyone? This week, you will learn how to use evidence to balance opinion and personal experience, a hallmark of social scientific writing.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this week you should be able to:
?Explain the distinctions and connections among common sense, science, personal beliefs, and human behaviors
?Define the concept of "belief perseverance" and explain how it interferes with critical thinking
?Describe how to interact with information to determine what is important, the accuracy of the information, and the degree to which it is scientific, and explain the importance of this knowledge to psychologists or counselors
?Describe common mistakes made when reporting research and explain how they may be avoided
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Week 12: The Pursuit of Academic and Professional Excellence

Introduction

Congratulations! You have just about completed the Walden University Foundations course and your orientation to the School of Psychology. How do you put all of this together? How has your experience prepared you to be successful in your upcoming courses? This week, you will spend some time reflecting upon your experience in the course and what it means to you personally, professionally and academically.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this week you should be able to:
?Redefine scholar-practitioner and explain how the course shaped the current definition
?Explain how this course will contribute to the academic and professional success of a scholar-practitioner who effects social change

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two health behavior theories

The purpose of this assignment is to help students practice synthesizing and integrating different perspectives into more meaningful programs and research studies. Now that students have seen and critiqued what others have done, the final assignment is to develop a hypothetical program based on theory. For this assignment, you are required to use/integrate at least two theories. Write it as if I know nothing about the theories. Describe the problem or condition, the target population, the theories you are using, why you chose these theories (why they are the best ones to apply to the problem), what elements of the theory apply to your program, and how you will translate the theoretical constructs into action in your program (how you will operationally utilize them). Include a diagram of how the various pieces of the theory and the program relate.
A 10-15 page paper is required with a minimum of ten scientific references. All references must be from peer-reviewed scientific sources.
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