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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type Of Course	D	U	L	ECTS
PDR 5176	COUNSELING AND POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	7

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/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

COURSE UNIT TITLE

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Description of Individual Course Units

Offered By

Level of Course Unit

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Course Objective

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

Recomended Optional Programme Components

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Assessment Criteria

Language of Instruction

Course Policies and Rules

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Office Hours

Work Placement(s)

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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