COURSE UNIT TITLE

: THE PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELING

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
PDR 5081 THE PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELING ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Guidance and Psychological Counseling

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR RENGIN KARACA

Offered to

Guidance and Psychological Counseling

Course Objective

Learning of the principles of the helping relationship by the student.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Understand helping relationship, expectations, goals.
2   Understand counselor characteristics, role and function.
3   Differentiate different approaches using in counseling
4   Apply counseling Techniques and application
5   Plan group counseling

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Counseling past and present status.
2 Helping relationship, expectations, goals.
3 Counselor characteristics, role and function.
4 Counselor characteristics, role and function.
5 Counseling approaches and social sciences.
6 Cognitive approach (Trait and Factor)
7 R.E.T., Eclectic approaches.
8 Midterm
9 Behavioral approach.
10 Affectively oriented approaches.
11 Psychoanalytic, Transactional Analyses.
12 Gestalt, Existential Approaches
13 Counseling techniques and practice
14 Group Counseling.
15 Final

Recomended or Required Reading

Fundamentals of counseling Bruce Shertzer, Shelley C. Stone

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Homework and seminars, lecture, question-answer, discussion

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.40 + FCG * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 6 78
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Midterm 1 3 3
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 171

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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