COURSE UNIT TITLE

: LIFE PERIODS AND ADJUSTMENT PROBLEMS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
PDR 2016 LIFE PERIODS AND ADJUSTMENT PROBLEMS COMPULSORY 2 0 0 2

Offered By

Guidance and Psychological Counseling

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR FATMA EBRU IKIZ

Offered to

Guidance and Psychological Counseling

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to provide students understand mental health, the criteria to differentiate abnormal, the developmental characteristics and adaptation problems of the life stages, the preventive and intervention strategies of counseling

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Comprehend the notion, principles and historical development of mental health
2   Understand the developmental characteristics and adaptation problems of the life stages
3   Explain the criteria to the normality of mental health
4   Integrate theories of mental health with counseling and the principles of Turkish national education system
5   Explain preventive and intervention strategies of counseling

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The definition, historical development of mental health
2 Adaptation and the effective factors
3 developmental psychology
4 nature of adaptation problems
5 Psychology of preschool age and adaptation problems
6 adaptation needs of children
7 Psychology of school age and adaptation problems
8 General Review, Assessment, Midterm Exam
9 Adolescent suicide
10 Adolescent risky behaviours and prevention
11 Adolescent risky behaviours and prevention
12 Psychology of university age adolescence and adaptation problems
13 Psychology of young adulthood and adaptation problems
14 Psychology of adulthood and old age and adaptation problems
15 final

Recomended or Required Reading

Yaşam Dönemleri ve Uyum Sorunları, Firdevs Savi Çakar (EDt), Pegem yayıncılık.
Çocuk ve Ergenlerde davranış bozuklukları , Firdevs Savi Çakar (Edt) , Pegem yayıncılık
Karancı, N., Gençöz, F. & Bozo, Ö. (2007). Psikolojik sağlığımızı nasıl koruruz II Yetişkinlik ve Yaşlılık, ODTÜ yayınları.
Onur, B.(1991). Gelişim psikolojisi: Yetişkinlik, yaşlılık,ölüm. Verso yayınları.
Öztürk, O. & A. Uluşahin (2008).Ruh sağlığı ve bozuklukları 1, Ankara: Nobel Tıp Kitapevleri Ltd. Şti.
Yavuzer, H. (2007). Çocuk Psikolojisi, Istanbul: Remzi Kitapevi.
Seven, S (2008). Çocuk Ruh Sağlığı, Ankara: Pegem Akademi.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Homework and presentation, research, lecture, question-answer,discussion

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE Midterm Exam
2 DTK Other Activity
3 FN Semester final exam
4 BNS BNS Student examVZ * 0.30 + Student examDTK * 0.10 + FN * 0.60
5 BUT Make- up note
6 BBN End of make-up grade Student examVZ * 0.30 +Student examDTK * 0.10 + BUT * 0.60


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Lecture, discussion , question-answer, research

Assessment Criteria

Attendance, reaching ang reading the books and relevant resources, presenting given study, investigate given article, application, homework , observation

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Attendance is mandatory, reaching ang reading the books and relevant resources, investigation and on-time delivery is mandatory

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ebru.ikiz@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

explained later

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
theoretical 13 2 26
Pre Class Self Study 13 1 13
Midterm Preparation 1 5 5
final Preparation 1 5 5
Design Project 1 3 3
final exam 1 1 1
midterm exam 1 1 1
Project Assignment 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 55

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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LO.31112511115151113
LO.41112511115151113
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