HUMN-1030-6: Week 5: My Human Services Professional Practitioner Identity
Week 5: My Human Services Professional Practitioner Identity
It is a best practice to create a professional identify as part of a professional journey. Plans can be quite extensive, detailing everything you need to do in order to complete a degree and engage in the profession. For this Assignment, you are expected to consider one element of a professional development plan that is reflective of your self-assessment. What skills, abilities, and characteristics do you possess that will make you an effective leader? In addition, how do your cultural identity and personal values fit with your aspirations to engage in this type of work?
To Prepare
- Review your course announcements for possible information related to this week’s Assignment.
- Review the videos and other Learning Resources.
- Using a scale of 1–10 (1 being the lowest rating and 10 being the highest), assign yourself a score for each of the following questions:
- How would you rate your leadership skills?
- How would you rate your interpersonal skills (e.g., empathy, listening, sharing, caring)?
- How would you rate your oral and written communication skills?
- How would you rate your collaboration skills? (Do you work well with others? Are you a team player?)
- How would you rate your stress-management skills?
- How would you rate your level of perseverance?
- How well do you respond to disappointment and frustration?
- How would you rate your optimism?
- How would you rate your negotiation skills?
- After you have completed your self-assessment, review your blog posts throughout the course. Combine these personal assessment elements to create your own professional profile. This is only the start in developing this profile, which over time will give you a better understanding of who you are as a human services practitioner, what you hope to do within this field of work, and how you will affect social change.
- Create a 2- to 3-page paper that integrates the personal assessment and data and reflections you gathered throughout the course to develop a human services professional practitioner identity. Include the following:
- An identity statement
- The role you envision for yourself
- The skills and characteristics you possess that will allow you to be effective in your role
- An explanation of the role your cultural identity will play in your success as a human services professional practitioner and your ability to demonstrate cultural humility
- How your ethics and values will guide you in your future work
- How your profile fits in with your professional identity
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