Unformatted Attachment Preview
PSY 108 Milestone Four Guidelines and Rubric: Action Plan Journal
For Milestone Four, you will submit your third journal, in which you will focus on the Action Plan section (Section IV) of your stress management action plan.
Specifically the following critical elements must be addressed:
IV. Action Planning
a) Rewrite the three personal or professional goals you identified in Section II-a as DAPPS goals (dated, achievable, personal, positive, specific). These
three larger goals will inform your sub-goals for stress management.
b) Consider the DAPPS goals you identified in Section IV-a, and identify three sub-goals that address ways you can better cope with stress as you work
towards your larger goals. These three goals become your action steps. Like your three main goals, your sub-goals should be DAPPS.
c) Explain how each supporting action step you identified relates back to psychological concepts and the stressors of your own daily life. How,
specifically, will accomplishing each of these goals help to minimize your stress? What specific benefits do you think you will gain from achieving your
sub-goals?
Approach this milestone as an opportunity to reflect upon and apply what you learn this week and as an opportunity to share your knowledge and expertise
based on your educational and professional experiences in the past. As a successful professional, you will need good reflective and writing skills. Journal activities
offer you the opportunity to further develop these skills. Review this tutorial for information on creating a Blackboard journal entry.
Journals are private between the student and the instructor.
Guidelines for Submission: Your submission should be 400–500 words in length.
Instructor Feedback: This activity uses an integrated rubric in Blackboard. Students can view instructor feedback in the Grade Center. For more information,
review these instructions.
Critical Elements
Personal Goal 1
Proficient (100%)
Appropriately identifies, applies,
and rewrites DAPPS goal from
Section II-a
Personal Goal 2
Appropriately identifies, applies,
and rewrites DAPPS goal from
Section II-a
Needs Improvement (75%)
Identifies DAPPS goal from Section
II-a, but does not demonstrate
application or that the goal was
rewritten
Identifies DAPPS goal from Section
II-a, but does not demonstrate
application or that the goal was
rewritten
Not Evident (0%)
Does not identify DAPPS goal
Value
10
Does not identify DAPPS goal
10
Personal Goal 3
Sub-Goal 1
Sub-Goal 2
Sub-Goal 3
Psychological Concepts
and Stressors
Articulation of Response
Appropriately identifies, applies,
and rewrites DAPPS goal from
Section II-a
Accurately identifies DAPPS subgoal that addresses ways student
can better cope with stress as he
or she works towards larger goals
with specific details
Accurately identifies DAPPS subgoal that addresses ways student
can better cope with stress as he
or she works towards larger goals
with specific details
Accurately identifies DAPPS subgoal that addresses ways student
can better cope with stress as he
or she works towards larger goals
with specific details
Explains how each supporting
action relates back to psychological
concepts and to the student’s daily
life, and provides specific benefits
that will be gained from achieving
sub-goals
Submission has no major errors
related to citations, grammar,
spelling, syntax, or organization
Identifies DAPP goal from Section
II-a, but does not demonstrate
application or that the goal was
rewritten
Identifies DAPPS sub-goal, but
lacks detail
Does not identify DAPPS goal
10
Does not identify DAPPS sub-goal
10
Identifies DAPPS sub-goal, but
lacks detail
Does not identify DAPPS sub-goal
10
Identifies DAPPS sub-goal, but
lacks detail
Does not identify DAPPS sub-goal
10
Explains supporting actions, but
relation to psychological concepts
is inaccurate and fails to provide
benefits
Does not explain supporting
actions
30
Submission has major errors
related to citations, grammar,
spelling, syntax, or organization
that negatively impact readability
and articulation of main ideas
Submission has critical errors
related to citations, grammar,
spelling, syntax, or organization
that prevent understanding of
ideas
Earned Total
10
100%