To create an understanding about family counseling and teach the basic cocepts and theories.
Prerequisite(s)
Corequisite(s)
Special Requisite(s)
Instructor(s)
Dr. Şebnem Günay
Course Assistant(s)
Schedule
Office Hour(s)
Teaching Methods and Techniques
Presentation, case study, demonstration, Q&A, group discussion
Principle Sources
Yavuzer, H. (Ed.). (2009). Evlilik Okulu. İstanbul: Remzi Kitabevi.
Other Sources
-Özgüven, İ. E., Evlilik Ve Aile Terapisi, Pdrem Yayınları, Ankara, 2000.
-Serap Nazlı, Aile Danışmanlığı, Anı Yayıncılık, 2003.
-Gordon, T. (2002). Etkili anne baba eğitiminde uygulamalar. İstanbul: Sistem Yayıncılık.
Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
General overview to family from a psychological-sociological-anthropological standpoint
2. Week
General characteristics of Turkish family structure
3. Week
Family psychology and general concepts
4. Week
Family Life Cycle model and roles in family
5. Week
Communication within the family
6. Week
Family System Theory and healthy and unhealthy family structure
7. Week
Effective parenting approach and family counseling
8. Week
Midterm
9. Week
Therapeutic process in family counseling
10. Week
Therapeutic process in family counseling
11. Week
Problem areas and approaches when working with families
12. Week
The goal of marriage and its general functions
13. Week
Marriage counseling
14. Week
Divorce counseling and divorced parents
15. Week
Special subjects when working with families (single-parent families, loss of spouse, adopting, etc.)
16. Week
Revision and evaluation
17. Week
Final exam
Assessments
Evaluation tools
Quantity
Weight(%)
Midterm(s)
1
40
Final Exam
1
60
Program Outcomes
PO-1
Possess knowledge about the theories on children’s, adolescent’s and adults’ physical, emotional, cognitive and ethical development characteristics and applies the methods to solve problems that appear within that domain.
PO-2
Design, develop and apply plans and activities on psychological counseling and guidance targeted to rehabilitate teachers, administrators, parents and individuals to accord with their corresponding institutions.
PO-3
Understand the assessment criteria and the methods in the field of Psychological Counseling and Guidance and can apply these purposefully and evaluate their outcomes.
PO-4
Possess the knowledge of professional ethics and the legal obligations while providing guidance service and follows the progress and performs within its limits.
PO-5
Respect all who wants to benefit from the guidance services without discriminating on the grounds of religion, language, race, social class, belief and ideas and tries to support them by paying close attention to the cultural differences.
PO-6
Put their skills on research, inquiry, critical thinking, entrepreneurship and creativity into use for solving problems faced both in professional life and the daily life.
PO-7
Distinguish the pathological cases from the regular cases and correctly identify behavioral and pathological problems and redirects the cases to the related institutions when necessary.
PO-8
Form joint work, run projects and plan activities with colleagues, teachers, administrators, families, social organizations, diverse group of individuals and institutions to help support students’ development and learning.
PO-9
Make use of their technological knowledge and cognitive abilities in following the professional advancements, in literature review, in research and data analysis, in creating plans and various other professional activities.
PO-10
Possess knowledge on learning theories, on the ways in which learning is initiated, on what the effective learning strategies are, and on how these strategies are applied inside and outside the classroom settings and facilitates appropriate environments and organizes programs to this end to support effective individual and group learning.
PO-11
Gain practical skills to perform individual and group psychological counseling to the counselees in the process of identifying individual specific goals, in helping problem solving, in understanding self and developing character.
PO-12
Possess knowledge on special education and identifies individuals in need of special education, and creates individualized educational programs and redirects related cases to the relevant institutions.
PO-13
Help students in their career plans, possesses skills in doing the necessary research for helping students understand the nature of various professions and making the right choices for themselves.
PO-14
Possess the technical information for gathering data about the student, for getting to know the student and in helping the students get to know themselves, and possesses the knowledge of putting their skills on effective communication into use such as listening, posing questions and supporting the case.
PO-15
Take charge in social service efforts with an understanding of the social responsibilities.
PO-16
Present the knowledge and skills acquired within the academic framework of the Psychological Counseling and Guidance program by making links to the interdisciplinary themes and the information on research and inquiry techniques.
Learning Outcomes
LO-1
To know and write the basic concepts in family counseling.
LO-2
To identify healthy and unhealthy family structure during family counseling.
LO-3
To determine the place of children and parents in counseling.
LO-4
To use eclectic approaches in family counseling.
LO-5
To be able to explain the therapeutic process in family counseling.
LO-6
To be able to do counseling to the family and the child during the divorce process.
