COURSE UNIT TITLE

: COUNSELING SKILLS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
PDE 3037 COUNSELING SKILLS COMPULSORY 2 2 0 5

Offered By

Guidance and Psychological Counseling

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ASLI UZ BAŞ

Offered to

Guidance and Psychological Counseling

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to enable students to understand the importance and function of therapeutic conditions and basic and advanced counseling skills in the counseling process, to use basic counseling skills effectively, and to establish therapeutic conditions.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   1. Comprehends the counseling process and its stages.
2   2. Understands the therapeutic conditions.
3   3. Evaluates the importance and function of therapeutic conditions in the counseling process.
4   4. Applies basic counseling skills used in the counseling process.
5   5. Applies therapeutic conditions during the counseling process.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Course Introduction: Scope, Importance, Rules and Requirements
2 Psychological Counseling: Definitions, Aims and Functions Characteristics of an Effective Counselor
3 The Counseling Process: Basic Stages
4 Initial Contact with the Client, Establishing Rapport
5 Therapeutic Skills: Structuring, Attending, Invitation to Talk, Minimal Encouragement
6 Therapeutic Skills: Content Reflection, Feeling Reflection, Personalization, Summarizing, Sharing, Connecting, Silence
7 Therapeutic Conditions: Empathy, Respect Midterm Evaluation
8 Therapeutic Conditions: Genuineness, Concreteness
9 Basic Conditions: Here-and-Now of the Relationship, Self-Disclosure
10 Basic Conditions: Confrontation
11 Problem Assessment Stage
12 Goal Setting Stage
13 Intervention Stage
14 Termination and Follow-Up Stage
15 Course Evaluation

Recomended or Required Reading

Erford, B. (2019). Psikolojik Danışmanların Bilmesi Gereken 40 Teknik. (Çev. Ed. Aslı
Uz Baş). Ankara: Pegem Akademi.
Hackney, H. & Cormier, S. (2008). Psikolojik Danışma Ilke ve Teknikleri. (Çev. T.
Ergene ve A. Aydemir Sevim). Ankara: Mentis Yayınları.
Voltan-Acar (2003). Terapötik iletişim. Kişilerarası ilişkiler (Geliştirilmiş 4.
Baskı). Ankara: Nobel Yayınları.
Meier, S. T., & Davis, S. R. (2006). Psikolojik danışma: Temel öğeler. (S. Doğan (Ed.),
D. Y. Bektaş, E. Ö. Kocabaş, S. Denizli, Çev.). Ankara: Pegem Yayıncılık.
Egan, G. (2011). Psikolojik Danışma Becerileri. (Çev. Özlem Yüksel). Istanbul: Kaknüs
Yayınları.
Chen, M. & Giblin, N. J. (2020). Bireyle Psikolojik Danışma ve Terapi: Beceriler ve
Teknikler. (Çev. E. Çetinkaya Yıldız ve G. Çakır). Ankara: Nobel Yayıncılık.
Gülüm, I.V. ve Soygüt Pekak, G. (2018). Etkili Psikoterapistlik: Terapötik Ittifak
Odaklı Uygulamalar. Ankara: Türk Psikologlar Derneği.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, Question and Answer, Discussion, Role Play

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 VZ Midterm
2 FN Semester final exam
3 BNS BNS Student examVZ * 0.40 + Student examFN * 0.60
4 BUT Make-up note
5 BBN End of make-up grade Student examVZ * 0.40 + Student examBUT * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Midterm exam and final exam

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Attendance is mandatory for at least 70% of the classes.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

asli.uzbas@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Students can always contact the course instructor via messages on Sakai. Face-to-face meetings can be arranged at the instructor's office on the day and time specified in the weekly course schedule.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 15 2 30
Tutorials 15 2 30
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 4 56
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 133

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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CONTACT INFORMATION
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