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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS PDR 5152 COUNSELING AND POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Guidance and Psychological Counseling

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ASLI UZ BAŞ

Offered to

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to help students understand and use of positive psychology on psychological counseling and guidance context.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Understand development of positive psychology. 2   Comprehend the basic concepts of positive psychology. 3   Comprehend positive psychology models. 4   Use of positive psychology on psychological counseling context.

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 Development of positive psychology 3 Basic principles of positive psychology 4 Psychological resilience 5 Happiness 6 Quality of life, life satisfaction and subjective well-being 7 Flow 8 Assessment in positive psychology 9 Positive psychology and counseling 10 Positive psychology and guidance 11 Student presentations 12 Student presentations 13 Student presentations 14 Student presentations 15 Student presentations 16 End-of-term evaluation

Recomended or Required Reading

Seligman, M.E. & Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2000). Positive psychology: An introduction. American Psychologist, 55, 5 14. Seligman, M. (2002). Authentic happiness: Using the new positive psychology to realize your potential your potential for lasting fulfillment. New York, NY: Free Press. Seligman, M. E., Steen, T.A., Park, N., & Peterson, C. (2005). Positive Psychology Progress: Empirical Validation of Interventions. American Psychologist, 60, 410 421.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Direct instruction, question-answer, disscussion, report preparation

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

None

Assessment Criteria

Presentation

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours) Lectures 10 3 30 Tutorials 5 3 15 Preparations before/after weekly lectures 15 6 90 Preparing presentations 4 10 40 TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 175

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO PO.1 PO.2 PO.3 PO.4 PO.5 PO.6 PO.7 PO.8 PO.9 LO.1 1 1 3 3 1 5 1 1 4 LO.2 1 1 3 3 1 5 1 1 5 LO.3 1 1 3 3 1 5 1 1 4 LO.4 1 1 3 3 1 5 1 1 5