COURSE UNIT TITLE

: COUNSELING AND POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ELECTIVE

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

Guidance and Psychological Counseling

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   Comrehend development of positive psychology.
2   Interpret the basic concepts of positive psychology.
3   Comrehend using positive psychology in psychological counseling context.
4   Use positive psychology in counseling

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 Positive psychology and counseling
9 Positive psychology and guidance
10 Student presentations
11 Student presentations
12 Student presentations
13 Student presentations
14 Student presentations
15 End-of-term evaluation

Recomended or Required Reading

Bannick, F. (2015). 201 Pozitif Psikoloji Uygulaması (Çev. Esra Kökkılıç). Istanbul: Üsküdar Üniversitesi Yayınları.

Carr, A. (2016). Pozitif Psikoloji. Istanbul: Kaknüs Yayınları.

Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2017). Akış: Mutluluk Bilimi (Çev. Barış Satılmış). Istanbul: Buzdağı Yayınevi.

Koydemir, S. ve Bulgan, G. (2017). Mutluluk 2.0: Iyi Yaşama Dair Bilmediklerimiz. Istanbul: Elma Yayınevi.

Lyubomirsiky, S. (2019). Nasıl Mutlu Olunur : Bilimsel Datalarla Kanıtlanan 12 Mutluluk Reçetesi (Çev. Gülfer Göze). Istanbul: Ketebe Yayınları.

Seligman, M. E. (2019). Gerçek Mutluluk. Kalıcı Doyuma Ulaşma Potansiyelini Gerçekleştirmek Için Yeni Olumlu Psikolojinin Kullanılması (Çev. Semra Kunt). Istanbul: Eksi Kitaplar.

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.

Grenville-Cleave, B. (2023). Mutluluğun Inşası (Çev. Aslı Uz Baş). Ankara: Pegem Akademi.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Direct instruction, question-answer, disscussion, homework, presentation

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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Homework and presentation

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

At least 70% attendance is mandatory.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

asli.uzbas@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Always available via Sakai. Face-to-face meetings can be held on the days and times specified according to the weekly course schedule.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 10 2 20
Tutorials 5 4 20
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 15 2 30
Preparing presentations 4 15 60
Preparing assignments 2 20 40
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 170

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9
LO.1113315114
LO.2113315115
LO.3113315114
LO.4113315115