Enhancing Wellness

BCourse Project: Enhancing Wellness
Introductory Psychology Course Project: Enhancing Wellbeing Paper (150 Points)
The course project is a paper that allows you to identify your current status of wellbeing, explore ways to optimize wellbeing, and create and execute a plan to improve one area of your wellbeing by the semester’s end.
To successfully complete this project, do the following:
Part 1 – Knowledge Building & Assessment
Review Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs theory: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Review the Five Factor Wellness Definitions: Five Factor Wellness Inventory Definitions
Review the following information (interactive, click on each part of the wheel for details): Wellness Wheel
Complete at least one of the following assessments:
Wheel Quiz
Princeton UMatter Wellness Self-Assessment (pages 1-6 only)
Part 2 – Identifying Current State & Clarifying the Ideal State
As the introduction to your paper, take the information you gained from the above resources and assessments to write about your current state and status in the following areas of wellbeing, being sure to address each subarea (see the Five Factor Wellness Inventory Definitions resource in Part 1 for reference): Next, write about what you would like your experience in each of these areas of wellbeing to be; be detailed in your vision of wellbeing. Address each major and sub area of wellness as indicate above.
Creative Self: Thinking, Emotions, Control, Work, Positive Humor
Coping Self: Leisure, Stress Management, Self-Worth, Realistic Beliefs
Social Self: Friendship, Love
Essential Self: Spirituality, Gender Identity, Cultural Identity, Self-Care
Physical Self: Exercise, Nutrition, Local Context, Institutional Context, Global Context, Chronometrical Context, Life Satisfaction Index
Part 3 – Planning & Executing Improvement
In the final part of your paper, you will choose one area of wellness that you’d like to improve, identify empirically supported ways to make this improvement, and create and follow an action plan. You will write about this in your paper in the following sections:
Area for Improvement: Identify the wellness area you want to improve, and discuss why and what this change will mean for you.
Improvement Research: Discuss at least three current bodies of research (from scholarly, peer-reviewed publications) regarding the area of wellness you have identified (remember to discuss the purpose, method, and results of each).
Action Plan: Based on your research, create an action plan with clear steps and deadlines to improve the area of wellness you have chosen. Begin putting your plan into action no later than the middle (week 4) of the semester.
Results: Discuss your success and failure with each part of your action plan, and close with a general discussion of how this area of your wellness has improved this semester, including how it has impacted your mental health.
Your paper must be in APA Style (use the template provided) and include citations and a reference listing for all sources used. You will submit your completed paper to the drop box in Blackboard no later than 11:59 p.m. Thursday, July 22nd.
The rubric for the project follows:
Criteria
Does not meet
Marginally meets
Meets or exceeds
Uses resources and assessment results to provide a current state of wellness for each of the following major and sub areas wellbeing:
Creative Self: Thinking, Emotions, Control, Work, Positive Humor; Coping Self: Leisure, Stress Management, Self-Worth, Realistic Beliefs; Social Self: Friendship, Love; Essential Self: Spirituality, Gender Identity, Cultural Identity, Self-Care; Physical Self: Exercise, Nutrition, Local Context, Institutional Context, Global Context, Chronometrical Context, Life Satisfaction Index
0-12
13 – 20
21-25
Provides a detailed vision for desired outcomes in each major and sub area of wellness
0-12
13 – 20
21-25
Identifies one major area of wellness to improve, discusses why improving this area is personally important, and discusses at least three bodies of research from scholarly, peer-reviewed publications about improving this area
0-12
13 – 20
21-25
Creates an action plan to improve the chosen area of wellness that has concrete steps and deadlines; puts this plan into action for at least half of the semester (4 weeks)
0-12
13 – 20
21-25
Discusses the results (successes and failures) and impact of the action plan
0-12
13 – 20
21-25
Uses APA style in-text citations and reference list for all sources, paraphrases all information from articles with (does not use direct quotations), uses the template provided, presents the work in an organized manner with clear headings and subheadings, and submits in a Word document as an attachment to the drop box
0-12
13 – 20
21-25
TOTAL 150 points

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