Week 3
CARD548 PREPARATION GUIDE: SPR Assignment
Stress Processing Report
INTRODUCTION:
The Stress Processing Report is designed to assist you in
uncovering thinking patterns that may be limiting your personal success or
causing you distress. This survey/report
is only effective if you consider it confidential and personal, and an accurate
benchmark of how you are perceiving life at this particular moment. With that approach, you will be able to
design goals to improve your effectiveness and attempt to limit the stressors
in your life. You will decide how much
of the results of this SPR work to share with the instructor and your class
mates.
Take the SPR online using the instructions found in the Week
Two Assignments page. Then, complete the
following assignment that is due in the Dropbox by the end of Week three of the
session.
YOUR ASSIGNMENT:
Write a 2 to no more than 3 page double-spaced paper [be
sure to use subheadings to identify each section] in which you use the results
of your SPR. The content of your SPR
paper should include, but is not limited to, answers to the following
questions:
I. Describe need
areas (10 points)
Review the information in all 19 domains of your SPR. What are the three areas of greatest need
(lowest scores) and what cluster(s) do they fall in? What key behaviors may apply to these areas?
II. Discuss whether
these results are realistic (10 points)
Does your experience confirm the SPR results and indicate to
you that the problems indicated are real and important? What is most important, and what domain needs
attention at this point?
III. Interpret the
findings (10 points)
Review the behavior examples for this critical domain. Describe where these behaviors were learned,
and what causes you to continue to be influenced by them. Then consider the self-improvement suggestions
for these behaviors. What steps do you
think should be taken to improve feelings and behaviors in this area?
IV. Identify growth
plans and undertake a specific change strategy (10 points)
Describe a
focused behavioral strategy for change that you believe would work and that
appears attainable in the near term.
If there are certain issues that you would prefer not to
discuss, simply exclude them from your paper and focus on other events or
factors in the SPR.
Your assignments are due by Sunday, end of week three, 11:59
P.M. (MT). Submit your assignment to the Dropbox. The assignment is worth 40 points.
