Rehberlik ve Psikolojik Danışmanlık Lisans Diploması

• Applying psychological counselling by directing clients to discover new meanings on life, to construct their lives, to actualize themselves, to think rationally, to acquire new behaviors and to develop new solutions.
• To orient the wellness developing potential of the group.
• Getting satisfaction from directing clients to discover new meanings on life, to construct their lives, to actualize themselves, to think rationally, to acquire new behaviors and to develop new solutions.
• Developing the habit of establishing empathy with the client and using the skills of unconditional respect, transparency, acceptance and communication in psychological counselling.
• Having the knowledge of duties, competencies and responsibilies of school psychological counsellors.
• Delivering services to clients in order to know themselves, to understand themselves and to facilitate their taking best decisions for themselves in the process of developing their career in accordance with career development theories, decion-making models and prevailing conditions in the labour market.
• Supporting the clients, who are in need of family counselling, in the process of developing new solutions, communication skills, insights, responsibilites, consciousness.
• Delivering psychological counselling to the clients and their relatives with special needs in enduring and coping with difficulties of life.
• Delivering psychological counselling to the clients who are under psychiatric treatment and their relatives in the process of coping with their pyschological problems.
• Developing and applying guidance and pyschological counselling cirriculum at different educational level.
• Developing and applying job orientations programmes at different educational levels.
• Respecting to the importance of philosophical and cultural differences in understanding human behaviors.
• Developing apprehension and intervention programs to increase the effect of social systems on the individuals.
• Developing educational programs which is complying with different social, cognitive, emotional and psycho-motor characteristics of differenly raising children.
• Helping clients in developing new solutions by taking inspiration from development principles.
• Providing consultation to administrators and teachers by taking inspriation from the principles of learning pschology, class and education management and instruction.
• Knowing the difference between need for psychological counselling and psychiatric treatment.
• Preparing psycho-education, support, group guidance, group counselling and education seminars by taking inspiration from the field of cirriculum development in education.
• Applying measurement tools to understand the individuals and the society and to analyse the results of the measurement. Understanding the statistical analysis in scientific researches in the field of guidance and psychological counselling and benefitting from their data and applications.
• Adapting psychological psychological counselor careers and ethic as a occupational identity.

Each course is mandatory for a midterm and a final. Some courses for the implementation, monitoring, homework or seminar are also required to study. Exams are usually written exams, but some of the exams can be applied assignments, presentation, and practice. Examination, regulations, assessment and grading are specified in each course.

Teaching and learning methods are chosen to improve the student’s skills such as self learning, life-long learning, observation, teaching others, presentation, critical thinking, teamworking and Information Technologies. Discussion, observation, brainstorming, presentation, lecture, seminar, practice, group work, simulations, field work are applied learning and teaching methods.

The bachelor' s degree in Guidance and Counseling is awarded to students who completed all courses in the curriculum. Graduates of the program usually move on to positions in elementary, junior and senior high schools. They are also employed in diverse working settings such as universities, community agencies and industrial institutions as counselors.

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