5.4 Assignment. Capstone Reflection Journal
Getting Started
Journal writing provides a more informal opportunity to reflect on learning, growth, and potential. Journals can also help strengthen writing skills. They afford a time and space for you to do more reflective thinking about topics related to the material, as well as to your own personal and professional goals.
Upon successful completion of this assignment, you will be able to:
• Evaluate progress on capstone project with a focus towards selecting a specialty.
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Resources
• Textbook: Scientific Advances in Positive Psychology
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Background Information
What steps or progress have you made towards identifying a capstone project that relates to your specialization? This is the main focus of the journal entry for this workshop.
You will add this as a new journal entry to the Capstone Reflection Journal you began in PSY-520.
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Instructions
1. In your textbook, Scientific Advances in Positive Psychology, read Chapter 8, “Taking Positive Psychology to the Workplace: Positive Organizational Psychology, Positive Organizational Behavior, and Positive Organizational Scholarship.”
2. Open your ongoing Capstone Reflection Journal, which you saved in a Word document.
3. Title this new journal entry PSY-535 5.4 Learning About Life Coaching and Positive Psychology or I/O Psychology,
4. As you write your journal entry for this session, reflect on your capstone project, incorporating what you have learned about life coaching and positive psychology, or I/O psychology.
a. What progress have you made towards identifying a capstone project? What questions do you have about your capstone project?
b. What have you learned about life coaching and positive psychology, or industrial/organizational psychology that contributes to your capstone ideas or plans?
5. Your entry should be a minimum of three paragraphs.
