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Reading: Choose a role that you take on as a professional and identify a “measure” that would allow you to assess your skills and continuing professional development needs for that role. This can be an informal measure or a listing from a text book or other resource that describes necessary skills for a particular role. A formal measure may be modified to help you assess your skill. Make reference to this measure as you address the discussion topic.

Discussion Question

How do you go about evaluating your work as a psychologist? What criteria are you using to evaluate the quality of your work? What skills do you reflect upon? Do you refer to your client goals and objectives to evaluate your work? How do you measure progress and success? Are there objective measurements you consider? Evaluating one’s work in terms of outcomes and procedures are part of what it means to be professional and helps us as lifelong learners to set goals for continuing skill development. How are you developing as a professional?