Running head: PERSONAL MISSION STATEMENT 1 PERSONAL MISSION STATEMENT 4 Personal Mission Statement Name PSY/699 Instructor name date Personal Mission Statement To begin with, I have set my eyes on becoming a social worker. Further, through my involvement in the realm of social work, I hope to help as many individuals as I can. For a long a time, I have exhibited immense passion and the need to come to the assistance of individuals who are grappling with a vast array of unsavory circumstances. My passion is as a result of my experiences of the suffering of many people whom I have interacted with throughout my life. Notably, the majority of these people had to contend with abuse and neglect for a long time. Moreover, my need is as a result of my comprehension of the fact that transforming the globe commences with the assistance of a just a single individual and having the ability to empathize with individuals. Having witnessed so much suffering throughout my life, I feel that it is right for me to do whatever I can to bring smiles to faces of individuals who have faced diverse challenging situations in their life. In this way, I believe that I will be able to bring much-needed positive contributions to my preferred profession. Further, I bring various positive and unique qualities to social work, the most prominent of which include empathy, active listening, and persuasion. Firstly, empathy relates to the capability of an individual to identify with the situation in which another individual is. Undoubtedly, empathy is immensely critical in the realm of social work owing to the fact that it aids those partaking in the field to not only comprehend but also assist others in ascertaining solutions to their problems. Apart from this, active listening is equally critical in social work because it helps in establishing trust, opening doors, and coming to the discovery of important details regarding the people seeking the assistance of social workers. In this way, their unique circumstances can be understood. Additionally, the value of persuasion cannot be stressed enough, as it aids in influencing, coaxing, or inviting individuals to take action, for instance, when it comes to the transformation of client behavior. With respect to how I see my role in the profession evolving through time, I hope that I will start working as a child welfare social worker in a hospital. I intend to offer services to children who are grappling with abuse and neglect owing to the actions of their parents. On top of this, I intend to assist children coming from families that do not earn enough income. In addition, I hope that I will become a hospital manager of child welfare five years after starting my practice of social work. Following the attainment of two to three years’ experience as child welfare social worker, on top of undergoing additional management training, I hope that I will be able to land the position. In addition, I intend to start a non-profit communit.

1. Running head: PERSONAL MISSION STATEMENT
1
PERSONAL MISSION STATEMENT
4
Personal Mission Statement
Name
PSY/699
Instructor name
date
Personal Mission Statement
To begin with, I have set my eyes on becoming a social worker.
Further, through my involvement in the realm of social work, I
hope to help as many individuals as I can. For a long a time, I
have exhibited immense passion and the need to come to the
assistance of individuals who are grappling with a vast array of
unsavory circumstances. My passion is as a result of my
experiences of the suffering of many people whom I have
interacted with throughout my life. Notably, the majority of
these people had to contend with abuse and neglect for a long
time. Moreover, my need is as a result of my comprehension of
the fact that transforming the globe commences with the
assistance of a just a single individual and having the ability to
empathize with individuals. Having witnessed so much suffering
throughout my life, I feel that it is right for me to do whatever I
can to bring smiles to faces of individuals who have faced
diverse challenging situations in their life. In this way, I believe
that I will be able to bring much-needed positive contributions
to my preferred profession.
Further, I bring various positive and unique qualities to social
work, the most prominent of which include empathy, active

2. listening, and persuasion. Firstly, empathy relates to the
capability of an individual to identify with the situation in
which another individual is. Undoubtedly, empathy is
immensely critical in the realm of social work owing to the fact
that it aids those partaking in the field to not only comprehend
but also assist others in ascertaining solutions to their problems.
Apart from this, active listening is equally critical in social
work because it helps in establishing trust, opening doors, and
coming to the discovery of important details regarding the
people seeking the assistance of social workers. In this way,
their unique circumstances can be understood. Additionally, the
value of persuasion cannot be stressed enough, as it aids in
influencing, coaxing, or inviting individuals to take action, for
instance, when it comes to the transformation of client behavior.
With respect to how I see my role in the profession evolving
through time, I hope that I will start working as a child welfare
social worker in a hospital. I intend to offer services to children
who are grappling with abuse and neglect owing to the actions
of their parents. On top of this, I intend to assist children
coming from families that do not earn enough income. In
addition, I hope that I will become a hospital manager of child
welfare five years after starting my practice of social work.
Following the attainment of two to three years’ experience as
child welfare social worker, on top of undergoing additional
management training, I hope that I will be able to land the
position. In addition, I intend to start a non-profit community
organization that deals with child welfare matters ten years after
entering the field of social work. After gaining a great deal of
experience as a result of working in the field for a long time, I
believe that I will be ready to start the organization and run it
efficiently.
As a final point, the work that I hope to do in the area of social
work is immensely important because it will contribute to the
efforts aimed changing people’s lives for the better. Succinctly,
social workers are involved in numerous day-to-day activities

3. that seek to make the living conditions of people better in more
ways than one. As such, I relish the opportunity to do my part in
making the society a better place by helping people, even if that
means assisting individuals one at a time.
References
DuBois, B. L., & Miley, K. K. (2013). Social work: An
empowering profession. Pearson Higher Ed.
Howe, D. (2017). An introduction to social work theory.
Routledge.
Running head: INTEGRATIVE LITERATURE REVIEW 1
INTEGRATIVE LITERATURE REVIEW 10
Integrative Literature Review
PSY/699
Instructor name
September 17, 2018
Biological Psychology
Delgado, N., Caridad, M., Salabert Tortoló, I., Morales Díaz,
M., Mestre Cárdenas, V. A., Alfonso, G., ... & Toledo

4. Martínez, T. E. (2017). La motivación en los estudiantes de
primer año de la carrera de Medicina. Curso 2015-
2016. Revista Médica Electrónica, 39(4), 906-915.
Garfinkel, S. N., Seth, A. K., Barrett, A. B., Suzuki, K., &
Critchley, H. D. (2015). Knowing your own heart:
distinguishing interoceptive accuracy from interoceptive
awareness. Biological psychology, 104, 65-74.
Lazarević, L. B., Bošnjak, M., Knežević, G., Petrović, B., Purić,
D., Teovanović, P., ... & Bodroža, B. (2016). Disintegration as
an Additional Trait in the Psychobiological Model of
Personality. Zeitschrift für Psychologie.
Liu, R. T. (2017). The microbiome as a novel paradigm in
studyinng stress and mental health. American
Psychologist, 72(7), 655.
Page, D. (2015). Suzanne Higgs, Alison Cooper, Jonathan Lee
and Mike Harris, Biological Psychology.
van Rijn, H. (2014). It's time to take the psychology of
biological time into account: speed of driving affects a trip's
subjective duration. Frontiers in psychology, 5, 1028.
Rationale
Biopsychology is the process of using biology and its principles
in the study of the behavior of people that the mental processes
that they have. I have chosen six articles that were published in
several journals. It means that the information in them is very
valid and is reliable. The text is also readable as the content is
written and the English used is relatively simple. The
information in the research papers can also be generalized as all
human are the same and most biological systems that lead to
some behavior are also the same. The primary rationale for the
inclusion is that the natural systems have a significant influence
on the psychology of a person and the response that they put in
place.
Cognitive Psychology
Ifenthaler, D., Sampson, D. G., & Spector, J. M. (2015).
Interactions between cognitive psychology, educational
technology, and computing in the digital age. Technology,

5. knowledge and learning, 20(2), 129-131.
Mathiassen, S. E., & Sörqvist, P. (2018). Ergonomics
observation: development of efficient methods based on
cognitive psychology. In 20th Congress International
Ergonomics Association; Florens; 26-30 augusti 2018.
Primi, R. (2014). Developing a fluid intelligence scale through
a combination of Rasch modeling and cognitive
psychology. Psychological assessment, 26(3), 774.
Proctor, R. W., & Urcuioli, P. J. (2016). Functional relations
and cognitive psychology: Lessons from human performance
and animal research. International Journal of
Psychology, 51(1), 58-63.
Putnam, A. L., Sungkhasettee, V. W., & Roediger III, H. L.
(2016). Optimizing learning in college: tips from cognitive
psychology. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 11(5),
652-660.
Stedman, J. M., Spalding, T. L., & Gagné, C. L. (2016). Does
Functionalism Offer an Adequate Account of Cognitive
Psychology? Journal of Mind & Behavior, 37(2).
Rationale
Cognitive psychology is a psychology that has its primary focus
on the thoughts that people have and their cognition and trying
to understand how they affect the decision making of a person.
The rationale for involving this is to help understand how
people decide in the real world. The information available is
very generalizable because it makes use of the examples that are
normal in the society and applicable in the lives of many
people. The information is very valid as the articles are all peer-
reviewed and they are published in respectable journals. The
language used in these articles is also straightforward, and it
makes it easy to read and understand the various principles that
are suggested.
Social and Personality Psychology
Bardi, A., & Zentner, M. (2017). Grand Challenges for
Personality and Social Psychology: Moving beyond the
Replication Crisis. Frontiers in psychology, 8, 2068.

6. Brown, A. J., & Goh, J. X. (2016). Some evidence for a gender
gap in personality and social psychology. Social Psychological
and Personality Science, 7(5), 437-443.
Klein, W. M., Rothman, A. J., & Cameron, L. D. (2013).
Theoretical innovations in social and personality psychology
and implications for health: Introduction to special
issue. Health Psychology, 32(5), 457.
Humberg, S., Nestler, S., & Back, M. D. (2018). Response
Surface Analysis in personality and social psychology:
checklist and clarifications for the case of congruence
hypotheses. Social Psychological and Personality Science,
1948550618757600.
Međedović, J. (2018). What can human personality psychology
learn from behavioral ecology?. Journal of comparative
psychology (Washington, DC: 1983).
Wood, W. (2017). Habit in personality and social
psychology. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 21(4),
389-403.
Rationale
The social psychology looks into the aspect of how other
people’s presence affects the thoughts and feelings of other
people. It is the analysis of the everyday life of people and the
reasons as to why people behave in a particular manner. The
information that is in the research provided is very readable and
applicable in the real-life situations. The information is also
very valid and appropriate in the real world. Such is because the
methods used to research consideration are accurate and have
been proven to be a representation of the situation on the
ground. The rationale of the information that is offered is also
apparent and is one that covers the ability to interact with other
human beings and their capabilities. The information is also
valid as the content includes articles that are peer reviewed.
Developmental Psychology
Chung, D. (2018). The Eight Stages of Psychosocial Protective
Development: Developmental Psychology. Journal of
Behavioral and Brain Science, 8(06), 369.

7. Chryssochoou, X., & Barrett, M. (2017). Youth Politicization
Viewed From the Perspectives of Social Psychology and
Developmental Psychology.
Cleary, H. (2017). Applying the lessons of developmental
psychology to the study of juvenile interrogations: New
directions for research, policy, and practice. Psychology, Public
Policy, and Law, 23(1), 118.
Dobermann, D., & Hamilton, I. S. (2017). Publication patterns
in developmental psychology: Trends and social
networks. International Journal of Psychology, 52(4), 336-347.
Farrell, A. H., Semplonius, T., Shapira, M., Zhou, X., Laurence,
S., Willoughby, T., ... & Evans, A. D. (2016). Research
activity in Canadian developmental psychology
programs. Canadian Psychology/psychologie
canadienne, 57(2), 76.
Whitehead III, G. I., Smith, S. H., & Losonczy-Marshall, M.
(2017). Core References in Introductory Social Psychology
and Developmental Psychology Textbooks. Psychology
Learning & Teaching, 16(1), 6-18.
Rationale
Developmental psychology is the study of how people develop
across all their lifespans and the changes that occur within their
period. The articles selected are valid because they are written
by reputable researchers, and they are also published in
recognized journals. The information can also be generalized
because the sample sizes used by the researchers were excellent
and covered a large group of people. The people utilized in the
research also cover different fields, and this makes it possible
to have a valid sample group. Lastly, the rationale for involving
this specific item is that I need to understand the process of
development and how it affects people. The information is also
very readable and applicable in many ways.

8. References
Bardi, A., & Zentner, M. (2017). Grand Challenges for
Personality and Social Psychology: Moving beyond the
Replication Crisis. Frontiers in psychology, 8, 2068.
Brown, A. J., & Goh, J. X. (2016). Some evidence for a gender
gap in personality and social psychology. Social Psychological
and Personality Science, 7(5), 437-443.
Chung, D. (2018). The Eight Stages of Psychosocial Protective
Development: Developmental Psychology. Journal of
Behavioral and Brain Science, 8(06), 369.
Chryssochoou, X., & Barrett, M. (2017). Youth Politicization
Viewed From the Perspectives of Social Psychology and
Developmental Psychology.
Cleary, H. (2017). Applying the lessons of developmental
psychology to the study of juvenile interrogations: New
directions for research, policy, and practice. Psychology, Public
Policy, and Law, 23(1), 118.
Delgado, N., Caridad, M., Salabert Tortoló, I., Morales Díaz,
M., Mestre Cárdenas, V. A., Alfonso, G., ... & Toledo
Martínez, T. E. (2017). La motivación en los estudiantes de
primer año de la carrera de Medicina. Curso 2015-
2016. Revista Médica Electrónica, 39(4), 906-915.
Dobermann, D., & Hamilton, I. S. (2017). Publication patterns
in developmental psychology: Trends and social

9. networks. International Journal of Psychology, 52(4), 336-347.
Farrell, A. H., Semplonius, T., Shapira, M., Zhou, X., Laurence,
S., Willoughby, T., ... & Evans, A. D. (2016). Research
activity in Canadian developmental psychology
programs. Canadian Psychology/psychologie
canadienne, 57(2), 76.
Garfinkel, S. N., Seth, A. K., Barrett, A. B., Suzuki, K., &
Critchley, H. D. (2015). Knowing your own heart:
distinguishing interoceptive accuracy from interoceptive
awareness. Biological psychology, 104, 65-74.
Humberg, S., Nestler, S., & Back, M. D. (2018). Response
Surface Analysis in personality and social psychology:
checklist and clarifications for the case of congruence
hypotheses. Social Psychological and Personality Science,
1948550618757600.
Ifenthaler, D., Sampson, D. G., & Spector, J. M. (2015).
Interactions between cognitive psychology, educational
technology, and computing in the digital age. Technology,
knowledge and learning, 20(2), 129-131.
Klein, W. M., Rothman, A. J., & Cameron, L. D. (2013).
Theoretical innovations in social and personality psychology
and implications for health: Introduction to special
issue. Health Psychology, 32(5), 457.
Lazarević, L. B., Bošnjak, M., Knežević, G., Petrović, B., Purić,
D., Teovanović, P., ... & Bodroža, B. (2016). Disintegration as
an Additional Trait in the Psychobiological Model of
Personality. Zeitschrift für Psychologie.
Liu, R. T. (2017). The microbiome as a novel paradigm in
studying stress and mental health. American
Psychologist, 72(7), 655.
Mathiassen, S. E., & Sörqvist, P. (2018). Ergonomics
observation: development of efficient methods based on
cognitive psychology. In 20th Congress International
Ergonomics Association; Florens; 26-30 augusti 2018.
Međedović, J. (2018). What can human personality psychology
learn from behavioral ecology?. Journal of comparative

10. psychology (Washington, DC: 1983).
Page, D. (2015). Suzanne Higgs, Alison Cooper, Jonathan Lee
and Mike Harris, Biological Psychology.
Primi, R. (2014). Developing a fluid intelligence scale through
a combination of Rasch modeling and cognitive
psychology. Psychological assessment, 26(3), 774.
Proctor, R. W., & Urcuioli, P. J. (2016). Functional relations
and cognitive psychology: Lessons from human performance
and animal research. International Journal of
Psychology, 51(1), 58-63.
Putnam, A. L., Sungkhasettee, V. W., & Roediger III, H. L.
(2016). Optimizing learning in college: tips from cognitive
psychology. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 11(5),
652-660.
Stedman, J. M., Spalding, T. L., & Gagné, C. L. (2016). Does
Functionalism Offer an Adequate Account of Cognitive
Psychology? Journal of Mind & Behavior, 37(2).
van Rijn, H. (2014). It's time to take the psychology of
biological time into account: speed of driving affects a trip's
subjective duration. Frontiers in psychology, 5, 1028.
Whitehead III, G. I., Smith, S. H., & Losonczy-Marshall, M.
(2017). Core References in Introductory Social Psychology
and Developmental Psychology Textbooks. Psychology
Learning & Teaching, 16(1), 6-18.
Wood, W. (2017). Habit in personality and social
psychology. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 21(4),
389-403.