Professional Identity Midterm

What implies that resources can not always provide a resolution?

Super-complexity

What are some contexts of vet med?

• Health

• Welfare

• Production

• Performance on multiple species

What are the different purposes with the vet industry?

• Food

• Fiber

• Labor

• Economic security

• entertainment

• companionship

What are the super-complexities in vet med?

• Advances in technologies and knowledge

• Demographic and political shifts

• globalization of agricultural markets

• environmental and climatic changes

What are the key features of professional practice?

• Professional practice is always relational

• Professional practice has meaning and purpose

• Professional knowledge and ethics are intertwined

• Professional practice is situated, temporal, and embodied

What does “Professional practice is always relational” mean?

Relationality is more than the importance of interpersonal relations and communication/interactions and reflects something more profound about the intentionality of all sayings, doings, and relatings. When practitioners speak, they speak to, about, in response to, and in anticipation of, something or someone.

What does “Professional practice has meaning and purpose” mean?

Meaning and purpose are attached to all the sayings, doings, and relatings of veterinary practice; actively making meaning is an important professional activity.

What does “Professional knowledge and ethics are intertwined” mean?

Notions of what is good are at the heart of making decisions about what is right. Rich accounts of knowing and practice include practical reasoning which is “pragmatic, variable, context-dependent, and oriented toward action”

What does “Professional practice is situated, temporal, and embodied” mean?

Without abandoning abstract notions such as competence, evidence or professionalism, a rich understanding of veterinary practice demands deliberate exploration of how actual people do tasks involving other people and animals in specific settings, with the time they have available, and using the tools they can muster

What are the ways we practice veterinary medicine when it comes to self and practice?

• Sayings

• Doings

• Relatings

What domain is related with sayings?

Cultural-discursive domain; overt or unspoken understandings about knowledge, about how things are, or should be done.

What domain is related with doings?

Material-economic domain; actions and relations involving human or non-human bodies, objects, physical artifacts and abstract concepts like money.

What domain is related with relatings?

Social-political domain; actions involving relationships with other people including clients, other veterinarians, and communities.

What are relationships always mediated by?

Power relations

What do sayings, doings, and relatings depend on?

Context; rural, urban, or practice-practice

What are the elements within the vet med professional identity?

• Self (Inward or outward facing)

• Ethics

• Responsibility

• Trust

• Character

When you identify and explore elements in professional identity, what will happen?

Professional identity development is more likely to increase well-being

• Impact on self

• Impact the profession

Why is super-complexity used to describe veterinary medicine?

• Super-complexity: Reflecting unprecedented change and uncertainty.

• Veterinary Medicine is a profession where change and uncertainty is common, especially whenever you look at it through the lense of resources, contexts, and purposes.

What elements or components contribute to the super-complexity of vet med?

• Advances in technology and knowledge

• Demographic and political shifts

• Globalization of agricultural markets

• Environmental and climatic changes

These elements contribute to super-complexity by being factors that we may not see or think about on a daily bases, yet still play a role in how complex our profession really is.

How does the super-complexity of vet med contribute to professional identity development?

Super-complexities play a role in professional identity development by being factors on Self, Ethics, Responsibilities, Trust, and Character. These super complexity factors can have a negative or positive impact on the elements of professional identity.

What are the 4 Identity Statuses?

1. Identity Foreclosure

2. Identity Moratorium

3. Identity Diffusion

4. Identity Achievement

What is the definition of Identity Foreclosure?

High commitment toward the prospect of a new career identity but low exploration activity. They have accepted the prospect of changing careers but are unmotivated to start the process of job seeking.

What is the definition of Identity Moratorium?

Low commitment to the prospect of a new career identity but high level of engagement in exploring new opportunities so they are more knowledgeable about possible options.

What is the definition of Identity Diffusion?

Low commitment toward considering a new career. Low motivation to explore new options. They are overwhelmed or unaware of number of possibilities.

What is the definition of Identity Achievement?

High commitment to a new career identity and high exploration of possible new career options.

What is the definition of purpose?

Stable and generalized intention to accomplish something that is at once meaningful to the self and leads to productive engagement with some aspect of the world beyond self.

What does service-oriented purpose predict?

Identity development, moral development, feelings of personal efficacy, and civic responsibility.

What is pro-social orientation associated with?

Personal growth, purpose in life, and life satisfaction

What is purpose commitment associated with?

Positive affect, hope, happiness, and well-being

When looking at Purpose as a mechanism, what does it do?

Stabilizes identity which contributes to well-being

What does purpose-driven identity mediate?

The relationship between identity and changes in daily life

• may be positive or negative

What does it mean to be self-authoring?

• Trusting internal voice

• Building internal foundations

• Securing internal commitments

What does it mean to “trust internal voices”?

• Refine beliefs, values, identities, and relationships

• Shape reactions to manage external sources

What does it mean to “ Build internal foundations”?

Craft commitments into philosophy guide for reacting to external sources

What does it mean to “Secure internal commitments”?

• Create the core

• Live it

Idk what tf that means, but here we are

What is the difference between Ethics and Morals?

• Ethics: Rules of conduct in a situation based off of social systems

• Morals: Principles or habits relating to right or wrong conduct based on individual opinions.

What are the Goleman’s Five constructs of emotional intelligence?

• Self-awareness: knowing one’s internal states, preferences, intuitions, etc.

• Self-Management/regulation: managing one’s internal states & impulses (being accountable)

• Social Skills: Adeptness at inducing desirable responses in others

• Empathy: Awareness of other’s feelings, needs, and concerns

• Motivation: Emotional tendencies that guide or facilitate reaching goals

When we are talking about emotional intelligence, compare emotions and feelings.

Emotions:

• Short-term, fleeting, involuntary, reactive

• Associated wuth amygdala and autonomic nervous system

• Physiological state of arousal, a visceral reaction

• Basic emotions: anger, fear, sadness, happiness, disgust, and surprise

Feelings:

• Feelings are a way for the body to let us know whether our needs have been met or not.

• Originate in pre-frontal cortex

• Influenced by beliefs, memories, experiences, and values

• Range of intensity and more than one at a time

What does cognitive fusion mean?

• Entangled with and pushed around by our thoughts.

• Focus on our mind rather than experience out 5 senses

• Decisions and behavior based on internal experiences rather than what is really going on

• Our thoughts seem like the absolute truth

How does cognitive fusion occur?

From past experiences, fear of future experiences, self-concept, and random reasoning

How does cognitive fusion occur with the past?

• Dwelling on the painful memories (regret, hurt, loss, failure)

• Blame and resentment over past events

• Idealizing the past

How does cognitive fusion occur with the future?

• Worrying about events that haven’t occurred yet

• Catastrophizing/predicting the worst scenario

• Embracing Hopelessness

• Anticipating failure, rejections, and hurt

How does cognitive fusion occur with the self-concept?

• Negative self-judgement (unlovable, worthless, incompetent, broken)

• Positive self-judgement (Always right, better, smarter)

• Overidentification with a label (alcoholic, addict, depressive)

What are some examples of how cognitive fusion can play a part in internal thoughts?

• “Why I can’t, won’t or shouldn’t”

• Lurking bad outcomes

• “It’s me, hi, I’m the problem, it’s me”

How does cognitive fusion occur with rules & judgment?

• Rules are ideas of how the world should be (in a perfect world)

• Positive and negative judgments about experiences and others can merge with reality to become a false reality (can turn into a spiral)

What are the strategies to defuse?

• Notice

• Name

• Normalize

• Purpose

• Workability

How do you “Drop anchor”?

• Acknowledge your thoughts and feelings

• Connect with your body

• Engage in what you’re doing

What are values?

• Representation of one’s behavior/motivation

• Deepest desires for ones want to behave as a human

• Provides structure/guidance for behavior change

• Provide a “towards” move when stressed

• Decreases cortisol has been associated

What are goals?

• What you want to achieve or accomplish in your life

When we put it all together, what are elements of emotional intelligence?

• Self-awarness

• Feelings

• Self-management

How can you be self aware?

Paying attention to your body through all your senses

How can you manage your feelings?

Feel through your experiences, thoughts, and beliefs, not the situation.

*you do you boo, idk wtf this is

How can you self manage?

Resist the urge to act impulsively

What are the elements of Cognitive fusion?

• Recognize when you’re fused

• Unhook from those thoughts, even the ones that tell you they’re true

• Your choice to move towards or away from your values

What are values and how can they help you?

• The beliefs that are most important to your; post them and inform others (wtf)

• Bring values into stressful events

• Values help you find your way in the dark and gives you a purpose

• help rediscover meaning by taking a trip down memory lane.

What are some veterinary responsibilities?

• Interface of animal welfare science

• Codified regulatory frameworks

• Ethical considerations about responsibilities to other people and the moral status of animals

*Overall Complex

What is the current climate of vet med?

• Increasing urbanization in society

• Super-complexities in vet med (Climatic changes and globalization)

• Potential shortages in rural vet med

What are some challenges in rural vet med?

• Discrepancies between a vets expectations of rural veterinary practice vs. the realities of practice

• Caseload, workload, and level of mentorship increase retention, yet people are leaving rural vet med

• Experience in the field during clinical year can create an increase in retention

What are some perceptions of vet med to consider?

• Appeal

• Work/life balance

• Rewarding

What is motivation?

• The internal processes that give bahavior energy and direction

• the “will” to things

What is the Pintrich’s model of motivation?

The idea that motivation is dependent on:

• Socio-cultural

• Classroom environment

• Internal factors

When it comes to motivational factors, what are the types of people involved?

• Success-oriented: high success w/ low fear

• Failure avoiders: desire to avoid failure

• Overstrivers: high in success and fear

• Failure acceptor: Low motives and low fear (hopeless)

What are the internal factors that influence motivation?

• Values

• Fears

• Possible Selves

• Self-efficacy

• Attributions: Beliefs about the cause of success or failure

What do mastery goals indicate more of?

Motivation for learning

What is the best way to use mastery goals?

• Learn as much as possible in a course or within profession for the purpose of self-improvement

• do not consider the performance of others

• success = improvement, progress, and creativity

• Error = part of the learning process; informational

• Ability viewed as development through effort

How does mastery goals differ from performance goals?

Performance goals look at:

• social comparisons

• success= high grades and praise from others

• error = failures

• ability is fixed

What are the goal properties?

• Specificity (specific performance standards)

• Proximity (how close is the goal)

• Difficulty: (perception of difficulty)

What is self-efficacy?

The belief that one can successfully perform the task based on:

• previous performance

• observing others

• verbal and social messages

• physiological and emotional states

How do you increase self-efficacy?

• Set goals

• learning different strategies

What are the sectors of the self-efficacy model?

• Performance outcomes

• Vicarious experiences

• Physiological feedback

• Verbal persuasion

What is loss?

A threat to our sense of safety, mastery, and control

When it comes to loss, what can we do to increase the ability to cope?

understanding the predictability of loss can help along with creating bonds of loss together

What is grief?

The emotional response to a loss including sadness, anger, gulit, despire, and hopelessness.

*it is necessary and normal process

What are the types of grief?

• anticipatory grief

• Disenfranchised grief

• echoing grief

What is an example of anticipatory grief?

Owners imagine and feel what their lives will be like after their pet dies.

What is an example of disenfranchised grief?

Feeling of being outside of the social norm because they are griefing a pet.

What is an example of echoing grief?

Owners having memories of previous pet deaths.

What are the steps to the Model of grieving?

• Denial

• Anger

• Bargaining

• Depression

• Acceptance

• Hope

What are the phases of the dual process model?

• Restorative phase

• Loss phase

How is the workload described for veterinary students?

excessive

*no shit

What are some contextual factors when it comes to health? Aka what emotions can effect our health?

• Fatigue

• Stress

• Grief

• Joy

t/f: Self-care is a professional skill

true

what are the benefits of exercise?

• optimizes mindset

• exercise improves the rate we learn

• strengthens connections of neurons

What is neurogenesis and how does that relate to exercise?

• Neurogenesis is the creation of new neurons in the brain

• exercise can induce neurogenesis

t/f: exercise does not allow for an increase uptake in chemical.

False

What are some neurotransmitters that are associated with exercise?

• Glutamate: signaling

• GABA: shuts gates

• Serotonin: Controls moods

• Norepinephrine: increases signals

• Dopamine: calming in the brain

t/f: Exercise impacts our ability to stop and inhibit behavior and exert control

true

What does sleep do for the body?

• clears the brain

• erases trivial memories

• strengthens important memories

• helps figure out difficult problems

• dreaming

t/f: sleep has nothing to do with learning.

False - it is critical

What are the stages of sleep?

• Intro to sleep

• Beginning of sleep

• Slow wave sleep

• Deep sleep

• REM (rapid eye movement)

t/f: both REM and NREM are necessary for declarative and procedural knowledge consolidation.

true

What are some practical sleep approaches?

• Routine prior to bed

• managing stress and anxiety via exercise

• weighted blanket

t/f: Nutrition promoted brain health.

true

What is the main idea when it comes to food?

• Eat bigger earlier (breakfast)

• Don’t forget water

• pay attention to stress eating

What are the 4 key elements to mediation?

• quiet setting

• comfortable position

• focused attention

• openness to what happens without judgement

Describe mindfulness meditation.

noting thoughts as they pass through your mind without judgement

Describe spiritual meditation.

weaving mindfulness and awareness with spiritual practice to learn and expand understanding

Describe focused meditation.

using the five senses to concentrate, ground, and root in the present moment

describe movement mediation.

Walking mediation; brings body and mind back into alignment and develops body awareness

describe mantra mediation.

using a repetitive sound, word, or phrase to clear the mind