COURSE UNIT TITLE

: BEHAVIORIAL SCIENCES

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
SHS 1005 BEHAVIORIAL SCIENCES ELECTIVE 2 0 0 2

Offered By

Vocational School of Healthcare

Level of Course Unit

Short Cycle Programmes (Associate's Degree)

Course Coordinator

INSTRUCTOR SERÇIN SUN IPEKEŞEN

Offered to

Anesthesia
First And Emergency Aid Technician
Medical Documentation and Secretariat
Ambulance and Emergency Care
Medical Laboratory Techniques
Audiometry
Medical Imaging Techniques
Vocational School of Healthcare
Nuclear Medicine Techniques
Radioterapy
Paramedics
Radiology
Medical Laboratory Technology

Course Objective

The objective of the course is to introduce the students both the basic concepts of psychology and also some basic concepts of communication abilities (empathy, defence mechanisms, etc) that they can use while they are interacting with the patients. In that regard the students are also supposed the have a better understanding towards their own self and behaviour.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   They will have the knowledge about the concepts of conscious, subconscious and the unconscious; and they will be aware of their effects upon the behaviour both in daily life and also along the life cycle. They can use this knowledge to be able to have a more qualified and positive communication while they are interacting with the patients.
2   They will have the knowledge about the concepts of id, ego and superego; and they will be aware of their effects upon the behaviour both in daily life and also along the life cycle. They can use this knowledge to be able to have a more qualified and positive communication while they are interacting with the patients.
3   They will have the knowledge about the concepts of motives and motivated behaviour; and they will be aware of their effects upon the behaviour both in daily life and also along the life cycle. They can use this knowledge to be able to have a more qualified and positive communication while they are interacting with the patients.
4   They will have the knowledge about the concepts of frustration, conflicts and mental trauma; and they will be aware of their effects upon the behaviour both in daily life and also along the life cycle. They can use this knowledge to be able to have a more qualified and positive communication while they are interacting with the patients.
5   They will have the knowledge about the concept of anxiety and its symptoms; and they will be aware of its effects upon the behaviours both in daily life and also along the life cycle. They can use this knowledge to be able to have a more qualified and positive communication while they are interacting with the patients.
6   They will have the knowledge about various defense mechanisms; and they will be aware of their effects upon the behaviours both in daily life and also along the life cycle. They can use this knowledge to be able to have a more qualified and positive communication while they are interacting with the patients.
7   They will have the knowledge about the stages of Freud s psychosexual development theory and they will be aware of each stages effects upon the behaviours both in daily life and also along the life cycle. They can use this knowledge to be able to have a more qualified and positive communication while they are interacting with the patients
8   They will have the knowledge about the stages of Erikson s psychosocial development theory and they will be aware of each stages effects upon the behaviours both in daily life and also along the life cycle. They can use this knowledge to be able to have a more qualified and positive communication while they are interacting with the patients
9   They will have the knowledge about the concept of empathy and its importance in interpersonal communication. They can have a better understanding towards the patients while they are interacting with them and they can use this knowledge to be able to have a more qualified and positive communication with them.
10   They will have the knowledge about the definition of mental health and mental illness; and they can have a psychological-psychiatric point of view towards the patients, understand them better and forward them to the professionals when necessary.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Conscious, subconscious and unconscious; Id, ego, and superego.
2 Motives, motivated behaviour, frustration and conflict, mental traumatization ; Anxiety, the symptoms of anxiety, the psychoanalytic meaning of anxeity, the roots and the development of anxiety.
3 Defense mechanisms of ego: Repression, denial, projection, introjection, splitting, dissociation, displacement.
4 Defense mechanisms of ego: Rationalization, intellectualization, reaction-formation, isolation, conversion, undoing.
5 Defense mechanisms of ego: Concretization, fixation, regression, day-dreaming, identification, projective identification, sublimation.
6 Personality development; the basic concepts of Freud s psychosexual development theory and Erikson s psychosocial development theory.
7 I. midterm.
8 Freud s stages of psychosexual development: Oral, anal, phallic, latent, and genital.
9 Erikson s stages of psychosocial development: Basic trust, autonomy, initiative, industry, identity, intimacy, generativity, and ego integrity.
10 Empathy and its role in interpersonal relations.
11 Definiton of mental health and mental illness.
12 II. midterm

Recomended or Required Reading

Ruh Sağlığı ve Bozuklukları (Orhan Öztürk, Ankara 1997)
Iletişim Çatışmaları ve Empati (Üstün Dökmen, 1994, Sistem Yayıncılık)
Lecture presentation notes

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Using powerpoint technique to do the presentation which includes the lecture topics; and making discussions with students about the topics.

Assessment Methods

Successful / Unsuccessful

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria


Midterm %40
Homework/presentation
Project
Final exam %60
Internship report

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

e-mail: neminaga@yahoo.com tel: 4124187

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 2 24
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 1 12
Preparation for midterm exam 2 4 8
Preparation for final exam 1 3 3
Midterm 2 1 2
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 50

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16
LO.1444
LO.2444
LO.3444
LO.4444
LO.5444
LO.6444
LO.7444
LO.8444
LO.9444
LO.10444

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