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Overview
MindTap Counseling for Sharf's Applying Career Development Theory to Counseling, 6th Edition is the digital learning solution that helps instructors engage and transform today's students into critical thinkers. Through paths of dynamic assignments and applications that you can personalize, real-time course analytics, and an accessible reader, MindTap helps
you turn cookie-cutter into cutting-edge, apathy into engagement, and memorizers into higher-level thinkers.
Help your students become advocates of their own learning as they master practical skills and build professional confidence. MindTap Counseling for Applying Career Development Theory to Counseling, 6th Edition engages students in a scaffolded learning experience designed to move them from lower- to higher-order thinking skills by reinforcing learned skills and concepts through demonstrated application. As the instructor, you easily design your course to match your own objectives and preferred teaching method, with the help of our dedicated Learning Consultants and Engagement Services. Stay connected and informed in your course through real-time student tracking that provides the opportunity to adjust the course as needed based on analytics of interactivity in the course.
- MindTap helps streamline your workflow with carefully curated content and a unique set of tools saving you valuable time in your course preparations. In addition, automatically grades assignments and quizzes while also providing students with instant feedback on their work.
- MindTap for Counseling allows your students to learn core counseling concepts and then put them into action with case studios, videos and Helper Studio activities. This unique approach allows students to practice being a counselor gaining valuable experience before seeing real clients.
- Provide students with organizational and study tools designed to better manage their limited time, allowing them to complete assignments whenever and wherever they are ready to learn.
- Save students money in their course materials with a single destination that reflects exactly what’s important to you, the instructor.
- Track students in real time with the Progress app adjust the course as needed based analytics of interactivity in the course.
- Build and personalize your course by integrating your own content into the MindTap Reader using your own documents or pull from sources like RSS feeds, YouTube videos, websites, Google Docs and more. Control what content students see and when they see it with a learning path that can be used as-is or matched to your syllabus exactly.
- Engage students with course material specially customized for them by you streamlined in one proven, easy-to-use interface.
- The Message Center app helps you to quickly and easily contact students directly from the MindTap platform. Any message posted in the Message Center is communicated directly to each student enrolled in the course via the communication medium designated by the student.
Introductory Activity. At the start of each chapter, students complete a short activity written specifically to get them engaged in the material prior to the reading. Through polling activities, self-assessments, or brief videos, students are immediately able to interact with the material in new and interesting ways.
Research Activity. Students use Questia, supplied within the MindTap, to research additional readings on a subject related to the chapter. They are encouraged to compose one-page responses to these additional readings, which are uploaded and submitted directly to instructors within MindTap.
Discussion Activity. Discussion questions in each chapter allow students to collaborate with their peers to develop solutions and responses in an online environment.
Case Studies. Case studies give students the opportunity to practice and develop the concepts discussed within each chapter.
Exercises. Students are asked a series of short-answer and multiple choice questions aimed at getting them to think critically about key concepts discussed within each chapter.
Helper Studio. This video-based activity puts students directly in the role of helping professional. Students respond to clients with recorded video responses that demonstrate important skills and confidence necessary for success in the profession.
Video Activity. Students view professional interviews, simulated sessions, and more as they progress through the course. Students are prompted to answer embedded questions as they watch each video.
Chapter Quiz. Multiple-choice questions are provided for each chapter that allow students to measure their understanding and progress.
Reflection Activity. At the conclusion of each chapter’s content, students are asked to apply concepts directly to their life and future career in the helping professions.