COUC 500
Benchmark Professional Identity and Credential Paper Assignment Instructions
Overview
The purpose of the Benchmark Professional Identity and Credential Paper Assignment is to:
Articulate your understanding of the current trends in professional counselor identity and identifying your own professional development plan.
Teach you how to access and use the Liberty University Online Library.
Correctly identify scholarly sources appropriate for use in professional papers.
Instructions
Step 1: Read the assigned required readings to date, and search the LU Library and/or professional counseling association websites (e.g., ACA and its divisions; your state’s professional counseling association) and review at least the course textbook and 2 articles that support your work in this paper.
Step 2: Write a 5-7 page paper on the information reviewed. Your paper must be in current APA format using professional guidelines (including running head, a title page, abstract, headings, and a reference page). The abstract must provide a brief, comprehensive summary of the contents of the paper in 150–250 words. Note: the title page, abstract, and reference page do not contribute toward the page requirement.
Divide your paper into the following sections:
Summary – Synthesize and integrate the main points of the textbook readings and articles in 2 ½ -3 pages, using the headings listed below.
The Importance of Professional Identity
The Necessary Components for Professional Identity (within this section, also address ethical spiritual/religious integration.)
The Challenges to Professional Identity
Professional Identity Development Plan– In ½-1 page, discuss the following:
What are your motivators to become a professional counselor?
What will you do to establish your identity as a counselor?
Identify potential challenges that may present barriers to your success (academically, personally, or professionally) and name at least two strategies for how you will manage those barriers.
State Credential Plan – Copy and paste the Benchmark Professional Identity and Credential Paper Chart Template into your paper (be sure to include a page break) after the last section. Complete the plan according to your state’s counselor requirements as stated on the state’s board of counseling website.
Step 3: Submit your paper in the Benchmark Professional Identity and Credential Paper Assignment – Turnitin link.
Step 4: Wait until the link indicates that Turnitin has analyzed your paper and prepared a report. See resources in Canvas to support your understanding of using Turnitin.
Step 5: Open the Turnitin report. Evaluate the report. You will notice that Turnitin often matches on headings, titles, and references. If you see matches on entire sentences or paragraphs that are not enclosed in direct quotation marks, then you have unintentionally plagiarized. You will need to go back and re-write those sections in your own words.
Step 6: Return to your original paper and revise as needed.
Step 7: Save your paper as a Microsoft Word document using your name and assignment title (e.g., Doe_J_assignment_1).
Step 8: Submit the final paper using the Benchmark Professional Identity and Credential Paper link.
Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool. It is understood that the Credential Chart table may raise the percentage since much of this information is taken from the online source. Make sure that you have included the board website in the relevant section of the table and provided the information in your own words as much as possible.
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