Create your own PDP Build a Professional Development Plan for  yourself, foc

 
Create your own PDP
Build a Professional Development Plan for  yourself, focused on your selected competency
Decide on a Foundation/Practice Dimension  and a single Competency
What are your strengths and challenges
Assign yourself a proficiency level from the  Rubrics
Select 1-3 KSAs from TAP 21 to target
Define the goal you want to achieve
Create a list of activities to be completed
Identify how progress will be measured
Determine a deadline date for each activity.

Assignment Instructions HEALTH, STRESS, AND COPING In your career, you may find

Assignment Instructions
HEALTH, STRESS, AND COPING
In your career, you may find yourself working for an agency or organization that offers certain services, and you may be asked to design literature or marketing materials to promote these services in your community. For this assignment, you will create a brochure that addresses an area of stress. In the brochure, you will present professional information about the stress and how it impacts physical or mental health. You will look at ways that people can reduce the problems associated with the stress and recommend interventions and support your ideas with information from theory, concepts, or research in psychology.
Below are some ideas. You may choose one of these, but you are not required to select from this list if you have another area you would like to explore.
• Psychotropic medication and well-being.
• Lack of self-care.
• Poor nutrition on developmental or mental health.
• Effects of insomnia.
• Physical effects of drug abuse.
Assignment Instructions
Use the Brochure Template [DOCX] or, if you prefer, this Alternate Format Template [DOCX] for this assignment. Keep in mind that whichever format you use, the information portion of the brochure should be succinct and fit the one-page format. In your brochure, include the following:
• Describe a common stressor and how it can impact physical or mental health.
• Use credible sources such as scholarly research articles or professional websites, such as Harvard Health, to support your description. Do not use popular blogs or other sources such as WebMD or Wikipedia.
• Recommend ways to reduce the effects of the stressor.
• Look at interventions that have been tested and proven effective in mitigating the problem.
• Support your ideas for reducing the stress with information from scholarly research or professional sources that provide evidence that the recommended interventions have been shown to reduce stress.
• For example, if you recommend an intervention such as yoga to address self-care, provide scholarly research that shows that yoga can reduce stress.
• Be sure that you organize the information to attract an audience and fit a brochure format.
Submission Requirements
Submit the completed brochure as your deliverable for the assignment.

Throughout social media websites and apps, there are individuals who create con

Throughout social media websites and apps, there are individuals who create content about various aspects of human development such as physical
health, nutrition, parenting, emotional wellbeing, and so much more. On Instagram, some popular examples are @takingcarababies,
@biglittlefeelings, and @milestones.and.motherhood. Some of these individuals are professionally qualified to discuss these topics; they earned
degrees, licenses, and work in the field. Others are not qualified and make claims based on personal experience and anecdotal evidence.  You will evaluate the content of three different social media influencers and compare and contrast what they say about their topic
and what the research says.
Find three social media influencers who create content about an aspect of human development. To be considered an “influencer” they must
have over 100,000 followers and post content to FaceBook, Instagram, or TikTok regularly. Make sure to provide their social media handle.
 Evaluate each influencers content over the past two weeks. Provide links and/or screenshots of stories, captions, and other content to use. Then answer the following questions:
o What aspect of human development does this person post about?
o Are they qualified in any way to post about this subject? If so, what makes them qualified?
o Pick two specific posts over the past two weeks for each influencer and evaluate the accuracy of the information they provided to their
followers? Is it correct, is it complete? 

What is our honest opinion/behavior toward older adults? Following are points th

What is our honest opinion/behavior toward older adults?
Following are points that are presented in our text and life, in  general.  For this assignment, choose one of the following points or  create one of your own to provide your answer for this topic.
What is your opinion about what you have read in your text and in the  links about what have you observed in your personal life – this can be  your own thoughts and behavior (be honest) toward older adults OR what  you have seen occur both in thoughts or actions of others.  (200 MINIMUM – 250-word MAXIMUM )
Some interesting points to consider or create one of your own:
We currently live in a culture that appears to value youth above age. – Discrimination Against Older Adults 
 Links to an external site.
In some cultures in history, older people were valued for their  knowledge, but Berger points out that more often than not the elderly  have been thought of negatively.
The old were historically more valued in cultures where most people were not literate. The elderly provided the knowledge and history 
 Links to an external site. of those cultures.
Today, the young-old are mostly active, healthy, and productive. But  people fear being in the old-old group. Health is not assured,  financial support wanes, and the cultural admonition for independence  causes insecurity.
The factors that contribute to an aging population are longer life-expectancy, 
 Links to an external site.  declining birth rates, large post-Second World War cohorts, and  positive socioeconomic circumstances for the majority of the population.
  

  The elements of your self-concept, the specific beliefs, attitudes, values, an

 
The elements of your self-concept, the specific beliefs, attitudes, values, and characteristics by which you define yourself, are your self-schemas. 
How do you define yourself, both in terms of your self-schema and how you think others view you? 
How does your culture impact how you define yourself? 
How do we impact our sense of self? 
We tend to change over time. What elements impact our impressions of ourselves and others over time?