COURSE UNIT TITLE

: HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY AND COUNSELING

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
AED 5086 HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY AND COUNSELING ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Family Education and Counselling

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR HADIYE KÜÇÜKKARAGÖZ

Offered to

Family Education and Counselling

Course Objective


This course provides comprehensive definitions of health counseling and explain the various techniques involved. Ths course will cover major issues in health counseling ,including process of intervention and health guidance and counseling group approach.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Be able to learn about the relationships among health, stress and quality of life
2   Describe the basic concepts of health
3   Identify the major issues in health counseling
4   Be equipped with the knowledge of information collection and client assessment
5   Know the major concepts in health counseling

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to health psychology
2 Theoretical basis of health counseling
3 Stress, illness and coping
4 Depression and coping with stress
5 Healthy life styles and prevention of illness
6 Substance abuse and codependency issues
7 Psycho social intervention for people with chronic stress
8 Midterm
9 Physical symptoms, pain, controlling pain stress, illness and coping
10 Eating disorders and treatment
11 Cognitive approaches to pain treatment
12 Chronic illness and health problems
13 Assessment in health counseling
14 Case presentations
15 Final

Recomended or Required Reading

Blonna, R. & Water, D.(2005). Health Counseling: A microskills approach, M: Jones, Barlett

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Seminars, homework ,case study, 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


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

exams

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ferda.aysan@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 13 6 78
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 118

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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