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Psychology of Mental Health and Illness 2: CYC 324-OLB Tina Lackner, BACYC, MSc, RP (CPT) (CYA-RCYT) (RYT300) Mental Health & Illness Personal Narrative Assignment Value: 20% Due: Week #12: April 14, 2021 by 11:59pm Rationale: As a professional CYCP, the context of mental health work is prevalent in many settings. As part of interdisciplinary teams, the CYCP has a crucial role in understanding and articulating narratives to support and advocate for children and youth. The role of a CYCP begins with recognizing and understanding the context of mental health and illness within professional practice. Articulating a personal narrative can assist with the development of the CYCP within a professional context. Purpose: This assignment serves to contextualize the professional within the context of working with young people living with mental illness and create a platform that articulates the self as a CYCP. By using creative means, you will identify and situate yourself as a CYCP and construct a cumulative learning narrative that articulates the development of you as a professional who will work alongside children and youth living with mental illness. This assignment is meant to pull from cumulative learning and highlight elements in response to the question of “Who Am I as a Professional CYCP working with young people living with mental illness?” This assignment is, in part, an analysis of what you have learned and, in part, a reflection of yourself as a professional CYCP with greater knowledge of mental health and illness. Expectations/Steps: 1. Think about what you have learned by being a student of CYC 324 – this can include but is not limited to: your understanding of mental health and illness, legal and ethical issues, stigma, CYC approaches to working with mental illness, specific diagnoses etc. Take note of what has resonated for you over the course of the semester regarding mental health and illness. Reflect on the process of learning you have had as well as what content you have specifically learned about. 2. Choose your focus – what stands out as theme of your learning? Some thoughts on this might be: • learning about mental health diagnoses • challenging ethical issues and responsibility • learning how to integrate the CYC lens into an interdisciplinary team • learning to use what you already know and have built upon regarding mental health and illness • discovering that there are a particular group of diagnoses that you have found particularly interesting that you can see yourself working with • any areas of professionalism as it relates to mental health and illness. NOTE: This is really open. 3. Once you know your focus, choose a platform for communicating your narrative. This is open. You can choose to do a power point presentation or reflective paper. Or you can use your creativity to communicate the narrative (video, prezi, blog, podcast, story book, recorded interview…the possibilities are as far reaching as your creativity). Whatever platform you choose, you should be able to provide a link, if it is a media platform or video, that is accessible to the instructor without membership (i.e. do not use social media platforms that require sign up; if you create a post of some sort that could be used as a post, create the post separately from the venue). Note: if you choose to do a video, it may need to be submitted as a link through google docs or a private you tube link as large videos overwhelm the capacity of Blackboard. 4. Submit assignment on Blackboard. If it is a video link, submit the link. If you are completing any research be sure to site the sources you have used. Regardless of platform or format you choose, all assignments must Include: 1. An Introduction: • Provide an introduction to the topic of mental health and illness and what platform you have chosen and why. • Provide introductory information about what you would like to focus on and what has resonated for you in the course. 2. A clear description of your focus: • Provide an explanation of your intent and areas of focus. • Try to encapsulate your ideas into a few key themes. Some examples of these may include (but are not limited to): o Challenging personal ethics o Gaining understanding about working as a CYCP with people living with mental illness o Understanding the impact of the stigmatizing images and narratives o Learning about diagnoses that you have not previously been familiar with or learning more about particular diagnoses (only focus on diagnoses discussed in this course) o Finding new compassion and understanding for people living with mental illness or finding an area particularly interesting and wanting to work with the population o Developing further knowledge of the language of mental health work (i.e. person-first language, comorbidity, medication, Mental status exam, understanding the psychological paradigms etc) o Other areas that resonate for you from the course 3. Theoretical, Philosophical and Personal Narrative: • This sounds more complicated than it is – essentially, provide a story in some way – identify how the story connects content and personal narrative. So, not only what did you learn, but how does this fit with or challenge how you may have previously thought about mental illness/working with individuals living with mental illness? Include a connection to which paradigm or paradigms you see yourself aligning with. • If you have focused on course content, be sure to also share your current thoughts about being a CYCP working in mental health work. Why is it meaningful, why might it challenge you or why would it be an area you are not interested in? (you will not be penalized if you are not interested in this area of work but if so, you must discuss how it challenges you – remember – any sector you choose to work in will present you with young people living with mental illness). Conclusion: Sum it up – Wrap up your ideas and process and conclude the assignment. Total: 40 Marks = 20% of your final grade – see Assignment Rubric for breakdown of the grade Psychology of Mental Health and Illness 2: CYC 324-OLA ~ Mental Health & Illness Personal Narrative Assignment RUBRIC Student Name: ___________________________________ Area 0-20% Missing required concepts of the assignment 30-40% Demonstration of some knowledge and understanding are present. 50– 60% Understanding of the concepts are demonstrated 70-80% Knowledge or the concepts are evident and professionally described. 90-100% Material is clear and demonstrates highly developed knowledge and understanding of the topic as it relates to CYC. 0-2 3-4 5-6 7-8 9-10 Introduction No introduction provided or difficult to follow Introduction basic and brief – does not fully outline connection and focus – missing key information Introduction meets minimal expectations; covered some of the required information but lacks sufficient detail Introduction meets expectations, covered required areas. Provides description of platform and connections to why the platform was chosen. Provides information about the focus – could be more detailed Excellent introduction, provides articulate description of chosen platform and meaningful connections to why the platform was chosen. Provides detailed introductory information about the focus of the assignment and what has resonated in the course; highly professional and articulate. 0-2 3-4 5-6 7-8 9-10 Focus – including impact and relevance of chosen platform Brief and unclear focus or confusing. Unclear intent and area of focus – either too brief or disorganized. Platform and execution appear to lack thought about how to present information effectively. Meets minimal expectations; covered some themes but not cohesive or don’t show connection to the course. Platform makes sense for direction of the focus. Focus meets expectations; covered some themes but could have more detail and connection to the course. Platform makes sense and demonstrates professionalism. Areas of focus are clear; identified clearly some key themes to learning and integrated knowledge focused areas of the course; utilized the chosen platform well and makes sense. Articulates using professional language of the course. 0-3 4-5 6-8 8.5-10 11-12 Theoretical, philosophical and personal narrative Missing this component or does not use the platform well to articulate ideas. Lacking connection to professional practice and/or mental health work and/or paradigms. Unclear and/or brief. Disconnected and lacks flow. Does not make meaningful connections. Does not clearly articulate connection to paradigm(s). Formulation provided. Meets minimal expectations. Understandable and clear but lacks depth of concepts and construct of professional narrative. Does not adequately connect to paradigms. Good formulation. Professional and articulate. Uses platform to connect course to personal narrative. Demonstrates insight. Some details may be missing – e.g. clear connections to paradigms, details about meaning or challenges to professionalism. Excellent formulation. Professionally and articulately makes strong use of platform to connect course content and personal narrative. Clearly demonstrates insight into working with individuals living with mental illness and how this aligns with professional narrative. Utilizes the platform effectively to articulate the narrative and connects to meaning. Clearly