COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CURRENT ADVANCES IN THE INTERVENTION OF INTERNET ADDICTION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
PDR 6134 CURRENT ADVANCES IN THE INTERVENTION OF INTERNET ADDICTION ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Guidance and Psychological Counseling

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BAHAR METE OTLU

Offered to

Guidance and Psychological Counseling

Course Objective

Within the scope of this course, it is aimed that students will be able to identify and evaluate internet addiction and intervene effectively by taking into account current research findings.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Defines internet addiction and its symptoms
2   Defines the disorders that occur with internet addiction
3   Explains the assessment of internet addiction
4   Learns to use group counselling in internet addiction
5   Evaluates psycho-educational studies on intervention in internet addiction

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The concept of addiction and behavioural addictions
2 Symptoms and aetiology of internet addiction
3 Differences between normal internet use and pathological internet use
4 Cultural context in internet addiction
5 Risk factors in internet addiction
6 Achievement anxiety and internet addiction
7 Lack of social competence and internet addiction
8 Early intervention in internet addiction
9 Emotion regulation in internet addiction intervention
10 Cognitive behavioural approach and internet addiction
11 Rational-emotive behavioural approach and internet addiction
12 Group work in internet addiction
13 Psycho-education programmes for internet addiction
14 Schools and internet addiction of young people
15 Student presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

Lindenberg, K., Kindt, S., & Szász-Janocha, C. (2020). Internet addiction in adolescents: The PROTECT program for evidence-based prevention and treatmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43784-8

Adams, M. (2016). Internet addiction: Prevalence, risk factors and health effects
Internet addiction: Neuroscientific approaches and therapeutical interventionsIn Montag C., Reuter M.(Eds.), (2015th ed.). Springer International Publishing.

Tsitsika, A., Janikian, M., Greydanus, D. E., Omar, H. A., & Merrick, J. (2013). Internet addiction: A public health concern in adolescence

Krijnen, T., Nixon, P. G., Ravenscroft, M. D., & Scarcelli, C. M. (2022). Identities and intimacies on social media: Transnational perspectives.

Livingstone, S. (2011). Media literacy: Ambitions, policies and measures. LSE London.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures, preparing seminars, making presentations, discussion

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

Research, seminar and presentation

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

bahar.mete@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 15 3 45
Preparing assignments 1 30 30
Preparing presentations 1 33 33
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 150

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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