COURSE UNIT TITLE

: VALUES AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS IN COUNSELING

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
PDR 5066 VALUES AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS IN COUNSELING ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Guidance and Psychological Counseling

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR FATMA EBRU IKIZ

Offered to

Guidance and Psychological Counseling

Course Objective

Teaching the principles of ethics, the effects of values and culture, enhancing personal and professional awareness and responsibility, expanding skills repertoire.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Understand and explain the roles of values, moral beliefs and ethical awareness in counseling process,
2   Define ethic codes and principles in counseling
3   Develop ethical and critical thinking, discriminate ethical dilemmas
4   Expand problem solving and decision making skills repertoire
5   Enhance personal development

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The characteristics of effective helper, values and personal ethic
2 Helping without hurting: Personal responsibility and basic assumptions
3 Ethics and critical thinking
4 Trust, Power and Caring
5 Competence and the human therapist
6 Creating strategies for self-care and a professional will
7 Steps in ethical decision making and problem solving
8 Midterm
9 Sexual relations with clients
10 Nonsexual multiple relationships and other boundary issues
11 Culture, context and individual differences
12 Confidentiality
13 Responding to suicidal risk
14 Assessment, testing, diagnosis, supervision
15 Final

Recomended or Required Reading

Ethics in Psychotherapy and Counseling: A Practical Guide, Kenneth S. Pope & Melba J. T. Vasquez;
Standarts and Ethics For Counselling in Action, Tim Bond. Yönetsel, Mesleki ve Örgütsel Etik, Inayet Aydın, Pegem Akademi Yayınları, 2010
Psikologlar Için Pratik Etik Pozitif Yaklaşım, Samuel Knapp & Leon D. Vande Creek,Mentis Yayıncılık, 2010.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture and seminar

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)

ebru.ikiz@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Theoretical 13 3 39
Pre Class Self Study 13 5 65
Midterm Preparation 1 15 15
Final Preparation 1 20 20
Midterm Exam 1 3 3
Final Exam 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 143

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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