Goals through planning and prioritization.
Describe how the study of psychology is relevant to students’ career field.
PC 2.1: Achieve goals through planning and prioritization.
Creating a PowerPoint Presentation for Future Colleagues
For this week’s Assignment, you will create a PowerPoint® presentation that illustrates the connection between current psychology research and your role as a leader in a selected career field. You will present a psychology research article that studies a specific challenge that could be encountered in your career field.
1. Go to the Library and select a topic that connects psychology with your career field. Be sure to select the peer-reviewed box, so that you know your research studies are primary academic sources. For example:
· A future addictions counselor may select the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy.
· A future business professional may select ways of improving work morale.
· An early childhood development professional may select behavior modification techniques to improve classroom behavior.
0. After reviewing several studies, select one research study that most interests you.
· Be sure to email the Librarian if you need help with this. (The Librarian will likely need one business day to respond.)
· Click on the Cite link to bring up an APA reference for your article.
0. After reviewing the entire article, focus on the abstract for the main highlights of the research.
1. Create a presentation that is at least 10 slides long to present this information to future colleagues. Consider this presentation training for future colleagues on how your study of psychology relates to particular problem in your career field. Your slides should address the following questions:
· Identify your career field and article you selected.
· Describe the highlights of the research study.
· Relate the research to your career field.
· Identify ways in which this information can be implemented into your career field.
Writing Requirements and Guidelines
Your Assignment should be at least 10 slides, not the Cover and Reference pages.
· Cover page: Provide your name, title of Assignment, course and unit number, and date
· Body: at least 10 slides answering the questions provided in the Assignment directions
· Reference Page: Sources in APA format
I will need one reference from this book below and one from the article that is attached Document name article.
The book that I will be using is this below
Exploring PSYCHOLOGY
NINTH EDITION
David G. Myers
Hope College
Holland, Michigan
Special Contributor
C. Nathan DeWall, University of Kentucky
Title here
Add other info from instructions
**Feel free to change the background – this is presented merely as a SAMPLE
Purpose
Provide a brief purpose/overview of the presentation
State your career field/major
State the article title, author(s), date, etc….
Problem
Provide a possible problem in your field related to what the article discussed
Article citation
Summary of article
Provide a summary of the article
Its purpose/goal
How it accomplished the purpose
The results
Article citation
Additional information from article
Continue with the article summary and include the results of the study
add more slides if you need other slides to cover the article
citation
Research as related to ____ (your career)
Discuss how the article relates to your career field
Also make sure to cover how your career field and psychology are interconnected
___ (article and career) as related to psychology
If you did not discuss in the previous slide, please make sure to discuss how your career field and psychology are related…
How does this article relate to psychology and help you connect the fields
This is a good place to link in concepts from the Myers’ text
Define concepts first… then discuss how they relate to your career and the article
Recommendations
Discuss recommendations to solve the problem from the article
Next, discuss the recommendations *you* have to resolve the problem you stated earlier
Make sure your recommendations are linked back to the information from the article you read… but I’m also interested in **your** ideas (not just what the article states)
You are welcome to have more than 1 slide for this topic
Remember – you are ‘presenting’ to your future colleagues in your future field
Implementation
You could discuss how the recommendations you proposed could be implemented in your field
Learnings and Implications
This is a good place to discuss what you learned from the article
How will it help you in your career?
You could also discuss what learnings can be obtained from the article for your field
Conclusion
Wrap up
Make sure you have at least 10 total content slides
References
APA formatted references
The MAIN focus of this presentation is a PEER-REVIEWED article from the library!! Format the reference in APA
You should ALSO have a ref entry for the text (in APA)