COURSE UNIT TITLE

: GRIEF COUNSELING

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
PDR 5564 GRIEF COUNSELING 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 FERDA AYSAN

Offered to

Guidance and Psychological Counseling Non-Thesis (Evening)

Course Objective

Course Objective: Gain familiarity with several theoretical approaches to grief counseling


Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   1.Be able to identify grief process and formulate concrete, well informed plans of assessment and coping with loss
2   2.the dynamics of loss and berievement
3   3.to help the client go thru a healthy grieving process
4   4.to enable the client resolve the loss
5   5.to be able to help students differentiate between healthy and unhealthy behaviors related to loss

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 1.Loss ang grief
2 2.Personality and grief
3 3.Normal grief response
4 4.Grief counseling
5 5.Unresolved grief
6 6.Working with people with unresolved grief
7 7.Types of losses and grief
8 8.Loss and family systems
9 9.The counselor and her/his grief
10 10.Coping with chronic grief
11 11.Kübler-Ross and grief response
12 12.Worden and grief tasks
13 13.Lindemann and grief response
14 14.Working with unresolved grief
15 15.case presentations /final

Recomended or Required Reading

Worden, J.W.(1989) Grief Counseling and grief therapy.NY:Tavistock Publication.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

seminars, homework, case study, discussion

Assessment Methods

Successful / Unsuccessful


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

discussion

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ferda.aysan@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday 15:00-16:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 25 25
Preparation for quiz etc. 1 8 8
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 125

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.13133322125
LO.23133322125
LO.33133322125
LO.43133322125
LO.53133322125