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MindTap V2.0 for Shulman's Empowerment Series: The Skills of Helping Individuals, Families, Groups, and Communities, Enhanced, 1 term Instant Access, 8th Edition
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MindTap V2.0 for SHULMAN'S EMPOWERMENT SERIES: THE SKILLS OF HELPING INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES, GROUPS, AND COMMUNITIES, 8th Edition is a personalized teaching experience with relevant assignments that guide students to analyze, apply, and improve thinking, allowing you to measure skills and outcomes with ease.
MindTap propels students from memorization to mastery with a learn, practice, apply framework designed to prepare students for real world work in the social work profession. MindTap gives you complete ownership of your content and learning experience. Customize the interactive syllabi, emphasize the most important topics, and add your own material or notes in the eBook. The outcome-driven application helps you challenge every student, build their confidence, and empower them to be unstoppable.
- Leverage the power of video! This MindTap comes with video activities centered around current events, and can be customized to your course with our library of over 600 additional videos in MindTap’s free Instructor’s Resource Center.
- MindTap V2.0 has added new video and case studies to help promote critical thinking and practice skills to effectively work with clients.
- MindTap V2.0 now includes additional and an improved experience for students allowing them to receive immediate feedback on their quizzes and now includes outcome reporting aligned to professional standards on class performance.
- 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.
- Create a unique learning path of relevant readings, multimedia and activities that move students up the learning taxonomy from basic knowledge and comprehension to analysis, application and critical thinking.
- Integrate 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.
- Use powerful analytics and reports that provide a snapshot of class progress, time in course, engagement and completion.
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LEARNING PATH:
Why am I here? Polling 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. The polling questions get students to begin thinking in a meaningful way about the real-life uses of the concepts and issues they will cover in the chapter.
Chapter Reading. The full text is available through the dynamic MindTap Reader, allowing students an enhanced reading experience with notes and highlights that feed directly to custom study guides in the StudyHub MindApp.
Chapter Quiz. Multiple-choice questions are provided for each chapter that allow students to measure their understanding and progress. These questions are aligned to discipline standards and detailed reporting is provided for the course outcomes by standard.
Video Activity. Students view professional interviews and archival news footage as they progress through the course. Each videos asks students to answer embedded questions as they watch each video, in order to understand the broader social context to the chapter content.
Practice Activity. Students will answer a series of multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and matching questions aimed at getting them to think critically about key concepts discussed within each chapter.
Case Study. Additional case studies give students the opportunity to read about more real-life situations and practice the sort of critical thinking skills needed to succeed in a challenging field.
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.
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
PART I: A MODEL OF THE HELPING PROCESS.
1. An Interactional Approach to Helping.
2. Oppression Psychology, Resilience, and Social Work Practice.
PART II: SOCIAL WORK WITH INDIVIDUALS.
3. The Preliminary Phase of Work.
4. Beginnings and the Contracting Skills.
5. Skills in the Work Phase.
6. Endings and Transitions.
PART III: SOCIAL WORK WITH FAMILIES.
7. The Preliminary and Beginning Phases in Family Practice.
8. The Middle and Ending Phases in Family Practice.
9. Variations in Family Practice.
PART IV: SOCIAL WORK WITH GROUPS.
10. The Preliminary Phase in Group Practice: The Group as a Mutual-Aid System.
11. The Beginning Phase With Groups.
12. The Middle Phase of Group Work.
13. Working With the Individual and the Group.
14. Endings and Transitions With Groups.
PART V: MACRO SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE: IMPACTING THE AGENCY/SETTING, THE COMMUNITY, AND EFFECTING SOCIAL CHANGE.
15. Professional Impact and Helping Clients Negotiate the System.
16. Social Work Practice in the Community—Philosophy, Models, Principles, and Practice.
PART VI: PRACTICE MODELS AND EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE.
17. Evidence-Based Practice and Additional Social Work Practice Models.
Why am I here? Polling 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. The polling questions get students to begin thinking in a meaningful way about the real-life uses of the concepts and issues they will cover in the chapter.
Chapter Reading. The full text is available through the dynamic MindTap Reader, allowing students an enhanced reading experience with notes and highlights that feed directly to custom study guides in the StudyHub MindApp.
Chapter Quiz. Multiple-choice questions are provided for each chapter that allow students to measure their understanding and progress. These questions are aligned to discipline standards and detailed reporting is provided for the course outcomes by standard.
Video Activity. Students view professional interviews and archival news footage as they progress through the course. Each videos asks students to answer embedded questions as they watch each video, in order to understand the broader social context to the chapter content.
Practice Activity. Students will answer a series of multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and matching questions aimed at getting them to think critically about key concepts discussed within each chapter.
Case Study. Additional case studies give students the opportunity to read about more real-life situations and practice the sort of critical thinking skills needed to succeed in a challenging field.
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.
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
PART I: A MODEL OF THE HELPING PROCESS.
1. An Interactional Approach to Helping.
2. Oppression Psychology, Resilience, and Social Work Practice.
PART II: SOCIAL WORK WITH INDIVIDUALS.
3. The Preliminary Phase of Work.
4. Beginnings and the Contracting Skills.
5. Skills in the Work Phase.
6. Endings and Transitions.
PART III: SOCIAL WORK WITH FAMILIES.
7. The Preliminary and Beginning Phases in Family Practice.
8. The Middle and Ending Phases in Family Practice.
9. Variations in Family Practice.
PART IV: SOCIAL WORK WITH GROUPS.
10. The Preliminary Phase in Group Practice: The Group as a Mutual-Aid System.
11. The Beginning Phase With Groups.
12. The Middle Phase of Group Work.
13. Working With the Individual and the Group.
14. Endings and Transitions With Groups.
PART V: MACRO SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE: IMPACTING THE AGENCY/SETTING, THE COMMUNITY, AND EFFECTING SOCIAL CHANGE.
15. Professional Impact and Helping Clients Negotiate the System.
16. Social Work Practice in the Community—Philosophy, Models, Principles, and Practice.
PART VI: PRACTICE MODELS AND EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE.
17. Evidence-Based Practice and Additional Social Work Practice Models.
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