COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ADJUSTMENT PROBLEMS THROUGH LIFE STAGES AND COPING

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
PDR 5587 ADJUSTMENT PROBLEMS THROUGH LIFE STAGES AND COPING ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Guidance and Psychological Counseling Non-Thesis (Evening)

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR FATMA EBRU IKIZ

Offered to

Guidance and Psychological Counseling Non-Thesis (Evening)

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 and its relation with education
2 Models of mental health and the criteria for normality
3 Psychoanalytic approach
4 Psychosocial approach
5 Social and emotinal development and mental health
6 Attachment and mental health
7 Interview and psychiatric story taking process for the determination of normality and adaptation problems
8 midterm
9 Psychology of preschool age and adaptation problems
10 Psychology of school age and adaptation problems
11 Psychology of adolescence and adaptation problems
12 Psychology of adolescence and adaptation problems
13 Psychology of adulthood and adaptation problems
14 Psychology of old age and adaptation problems
15 final

Recomended or Required Reading

Savi Çakar, F. (Edt.)(2017). Yaşam Dönemleri ve Uyum Sorunları, Ankara: Pegem Akademi
Weiten, W., Yost Hammer, E.,Dunn, Dana S. (2016). Psikoloji va Çağdaş Yaşam, Insan Uyumu. F. Ebru Ikiz ( Çev.Edt). Ankara: Nobel Akademik 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 ve 2, Ankara: Nobel Tıp Kitapevleri Ltd. Şti.
Yavuzer, H. (2007). Çocuk Psikolojisi, Istanbul: Remzi Kitapevi.
Seven, S (2008). Çocuk Ruh Sağlığı, Ankara: Pegem Akademi.
Schaefer, C. E. & Millman, H. L. ( 1994). Çocuklarda yaygın olarak görülen sorunları, nedenleri ve çözüm yolları. Izmir Rehberlik ve Araştırma Merkezi

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Homework and presentation, lecture, question-answer,discussion

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 PRS PRESENTATION
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG * 0.50 + PRS * 0.50


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Lecture, discussion , question-answer, research

Assessment Criteria

research article and presentation

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

research dıscussıon presentation

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ebru.ikiz@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

determined accordimg to curriculum

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
theoretical 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 10 130
Preparing assignments 1 15 15
Preparing presentations 1 20 20
Project Assignment 1 2 2
Project Final Presentation 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 208

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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