In addition to the comprehensive Instructor’s Manual, PowerPoint slides and Test Bank available with this title, MindTap for Abnormal Psychology An Integrative Approach 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 personalise, real-time course analytics, and an accessible reader, MindTap helps you turn cookie cutter into cutting edge, apathy into engagement, and memorisers into higher-level thinkers.
The Learning Path for the Abnormal Psychology MindTap includes a broad range of assessment questions and multimedia tools woven around the Reader content, to enable South African students to fully understand abnormal psychology and psychopathology.
• Fact or Fiction Questions: Sections start off with a ‘Fact or Fiction’ assignment that includes myth buster questions related to the topic. These help to ‘draw students in’ and provide an interesting introduction to a topic.
• The MindTap Reader offers the ability to highlight text, add notes, add videos or flashcards, and the ‘Read Speak’ feature enables students to listen to text being read out.
• Aplia’s interactive assignment and case study questions are designed to engage students and to reinforce important course concepts. The case studies allow students the opportunity to apply their knowledge and provide a possible diagnosis. Designed by teachers and used by more than a million students, Aplia assignments connect concepts to the real world and focus on the unique challenges facing students. Lecturers can track progress and participation, and identify where the classroom focus should be to drive success.
• Concept Clips with short questions present helpful animations to reinforce important topics, definitions, and issues about psychopathology.
• Mastery Training is an adaptive engine inside of MindTap that completely adjusts to each student’s own learning process. The program is designed to help students break the cycle of ‘Procrastinate, Cram, Fail’ and uses distributed practice to teach concepts. By studying bit by bit, students will retain topics and understand them more efficiently and effectively.
• Profiles in Psychopathology allow students to delve deeper into mental disorders by exploring the real experiences of people with various mental disorders (Chapters 5 through 15). The ‘Profiles in Psychopathology’ feature presents the human side of disorders, through the lens of history, celebrity profiles, and everyday people.
• The Continuum Video Project assignments presents video cases to students and allow them to identify symptoms, take notes and submit an analysis in an interesting, graphic manner. Opportunity is also provided for reflection on this practical exercise.
• Post-Tests conclude each chapter, and help confirm students’ understanding of the readings and activities completed for every chapter.
