COURSE UNIT TITLE

: THE PRINCIPLES AND TECHNIQUES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELING

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
PDR 3017 THE PRINCIPLES AND TECHNIQUES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELING COMPULSORY 2 0 0 3

Offered By

Guidance and Psychological Counseling

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ASLI UZ BAŞ

Offered to

Guidance and Psychological Counseling

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to provide students to comprehend the importance and functions of therapeutic conditions and basic/advanced counseling skills in the counseling process; to use basic counseling skills effectively; and also to provide therapeutic conditions in counseling.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Explain counseling process and its stages
2   Describe therapeutic conditions.
3   Comprehend the importance and function of therapeutic conditions in counseling process.
4   Describe basic counseling skills in counseling process.
5   Provide therapeutic conditions in counseling process.
6   Use basic counseling skills in counseling
7   Describe basic intervention strategies in counseling process.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction: Content, Importance, Rules and Requisities
2 Counseling Process: Basic Stages, Counseling Skills ve Therapeutic Conditions
3 Basic Counseling Skills: Attending
4 Basic Counseling Skills: Questions
5 Basic Counseling Skills: Encouragement
6 Basic Counseling Skills: Reflection of Content
7 Basic Counseling Skills: Reflection of Feelings
8 General Review, Course Assessment, Midterm
9 Basic Counseling Skills: Summarization
10 Advanced Counseling Skills: Confrontation
11 Advanced Counseling Skills: Self-Disclosure and Immediacy
12 Advanced Counseling Skills: Focusing, Interpretation, Feedback and Information Giving
13 Affective intervention strategies
14 Behavioral and cognitive intervention strategies
15 Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Hackney, H. & Cormier, S. (2008). Psikolojik Danışma Ilke ve Teknikleri. (Çev. T. Ergene ve A. Aydemir Sevim). Ankara: Mentis Yayınları.
Voltan-Acar (2003). Terapötik iletişim. Kişilerarası ilişkiler (Geliştirilmiş 4. Baskı). Ankara: Nobel Yayınları.
Meier, S. T., & Davis, S. R. (2006). Psikolojik danışma: Temel öğeler. (S. Doğan (Ed.), D. Y. Bektaş, E. Ö. Kocabaş, S. Denizli, Çev.). Ankara: Pegem Yayıncılık.
Egan, G. (2011). Psikolojik Danışma Becerileri. (Çev. Özlem Yüksel). Istanbul: Kaknüs Yayınları.
Gülüm, I.V. ve Soygüt Pekak, G. (2018). Etkili Psikoterapistlik: Terapötik Ittifak Odaklı Uygulamalar. Ankara: Türk Psikologlar Derneği.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Direct instruction, question-answer and disscussion

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 VZ Midterm
2 FN Semester final exam
3 BNS BNS Student examVZ * 0.40 + Student examFN * 0.60
4 BUT Make-up note
5 BBN End of make-up grade Student examVZ * 0.40 + Student examBUT * 0.60


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Examination

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Mandatory attendance

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

asli.uzbas@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Always available via text and emails.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 3 36
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 79

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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