What mental picture of your post doctorate experience do you currently have?
Specifically, if you visually mapped out your future, your new environment, and your new role, what would it look like? Vasquez and Buehler (2007) shared that participating in vision exercises in which one imagines their future success may enhance motivation to accomplish specified goals. Thus, visualizing your future success post doctorate could be fruitful.
In addition to visualizing techniques, you can draw from the social work toolkit you have acquired throughout your coursework and apply the theories, approaches, concepts, and practices that most resonated with you in navigating the post doctorate professional pathways you choose.
For this Discussion, you will explore how you will manage the expectations of yourself and others in your new post doctorate environment.
Reference:
Vasquez, N. A., & Buehler, R. (2007). Seeing future success: Does imagery perspective influence achievement motivation? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33(10), 1392–1405. https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.175.7245&rep=rep1&type=pdf
To Prepare
Consider what your emotional reactions might feel like as a PhD or DSW professional, and consider if you will harness a new way of being as you conduct yourself in one of those areas.
Day 4
Post a response to the following:
Explain your concerns and how you could work toward mitigating those concerns in your future role as a social work supervisor, administrator, or leader in social work education.
Describe the best practices you could implement in your future role as a social work supervisor, administrator, or leader in social work education.
Support your statements with scholarly research and adhere to the most recent version of APA citations.
