COURSE UNIT TITLE

: WELL-BEING AND MENTAL HEALTH

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
PDR 6120 WELL-BEING AND MENTAL HEALTH COMPULSORY 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Guidance and Psychological Counseling

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ASLI UZ BAŞ

Offered to

Guidance and Psychological Counseling

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to enhance the knowledge and skills that aims to develop well-being and positve mental health in educational settings and counseling area.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   1. Understand well-being and positive mental health concepts.
2   2. Understand the factors that enhance well-being.
3   3. Understand the relationships between well-being and mental health.
4   4. Learn interventions that aim to promote well-being and mental health.
5   5. Acquire application skills of interventions that aim to promote well-being and mental health.

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 Definition of well-being
3 Positive mental health
4 Factors affecting well-being
5 Dual mental health theory
6 Interventions that aim to promote well-being and mental health.
7 Interventions that aim to promote well-being and mental health.
8 Promoting well-being in educational settings
9 Promoting well-being in educational settings
10 Promoting well-being in counseling settings
11 Promoting well-being in counseling settings
12 Promoting well-being in counseling settings
13 Students presentations
14 Students presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

Tantam, D. (2014). Emotional Well-being and Mental Health: A Guide for Counsellors & Psychotherapists. SAGE Publications.

Brown, J.S., Learmonth, A.M & Mackereth, C.J (2014). Promoting Public Mental Health and Well-being: Principles into Practice. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Assigment, presentation

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Attendance is compulsory.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

asliuzbas@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 15 2 30
Tutorials 5 2 10
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 15 3 45
Preparing assignments 4 5 20
Preparing presentations 4 5 20
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 125

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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