Assignment 2A: Improve your Professional Development Plan (PDP)
Instructions
For this assignment, you will revisit the professional development plan (PDP) you completed in DMFT-7501. Based on what has occurred since that course, update and revise your PDP to reflect your current situation.
Length: 3 to 4-page professional development plan
References: Scholarly references may be included but are not required for this assignment.
Assignment 2B: Portray Your Relational/Systemic Professional Identity
Instructions
For this assignment, you will reflect on your evolution as a relational/systemic practitioner and your current professional identity. Think of it as a professional biography—an expanded version of your narrative that might go at the end of a book or on a website. Create a brochure to showcase your professional biography incorporating the feedback received in CMP-9611M and subsequent coursework. The primary aim of the assignment is for you to prepare a resource describing you as a professional you can share with individuals and organizations in both your current and future networks.
Consider the following as you prepare your brochure:
• Describe your training and experience to date.
• What skills do you have?
• What services do you provide?
• What services do you want to mention that you do not provide?
• Who is the ideal recipient of your service?
• In what ways do you demonstrate cultural humility or sensitivity to diversity, equity, and social justice in your professional activities?
• How are you connected to other professionals or services?
Length: 2-page trifold brochure (which likely translates into six columns of information—3 per page), along with a separate reference list to document those sources you cited in preparing your brochure.
References: Include a minimum of 3 scholarly references.
Assignment Resources/Readings
O’Loughlin, K., Dal Bello-Haas, V., & Milidonis, M. (2005). The professional development Plan: Cultivation of professional development and lifelong learning in professional (entry-level) physical therapist students. Journal of Physical Therapy Education (American Physical Therapy Association, Education Section), 19(2), 42–51. https://doi.org/10.1097/00001416-200507000-00006
While this article pertains to physical therapy, the concepts associated with professional development and life-long learning are relevant to a host of professions.
School of Social and Behavioral Sciences. (2021). Professional development plan template [Word document]. Northcentral University.
In the event you want to complete your professional development plan from scratch, you can use this form, which is the same form you completed in DMFT-7501.
Zhang, N., Owens, E., & Alessandria, K. (Practitioners). (2015). Professional identity [Video file]. SAGE Knowledge. https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781506321110
Watch the videos for Chapters 1 and 2 (What is Professional Identity and Importance of Professional Identity). As this panel discusses the importance of a professional identity in the field of counseling, reflect on its relevance to a professional identity as a relational/systemic practitioner.