Career Counseling Practices

Course Code:

PCG 352

Course Period:

Spring

Course Type:

Core

P:

1

Lab:

4

Credits:

3

ECTS:

4

Course Language:

İngilizce

Course Assistants :

Pınar Aylin Yırtıcı

Course Objectives:

Monitoring and evaluation of the organization, personnel, application status, place and functioning of guidance services in elementary and secondary schools in education organization.

Course Content:

Measurement tools used in vocational guidance and career counseling, application of career development programs, career psychological counseling with individuals and groups.

Course Methodology:

1: Lecture, 2: Question-Answer, 3: Discussion, 9: Simulation, 12: Case Study

Course Evaluation Methods:

1. Written exam, 2. multiple-choice test, 3. Space-filling, 4. Right-Wrong type, 5. Oral examination, 6. Portfolio

Vertical Tabs

Course Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes	Program Outcomes	Teaching Methods	Assessment Methods
1) implement the measurement tools used in vocational guidance and counseling	4,6,7,9	1,3,6	6
2) Evaluate the measurement tools used in vocational guidance and counseling	9	1,3,6	6
3) Prepare a career development program	4,6,7,9	1,3,6	6
4) Make individual career counseling	4,6,7,9	1,3,6	6
5) Make group career guidance	4,6,7,9	1,3,6	6

Course Flow

COURSE WORK CALENDAR
Weeks	Topics	Preparation
1	An ıntroduction
2	Visit schools
3	Prepare career development program (7-8 sessions)
4	Using aptitute tests, personality tests
5	Evaluating aptitute tests, personality tests
6	Using non-test techniques
7	Using non-test techniques
8	Midterm exam
9	Implement career development program (7-8 sessions), making individual career counseling
10	Implement career development program (7-8 sessions), making individual career counseling
11	Implement career development program (7-8 sessions), making individual career counseling
12	Implement career development program (7-8 sessions), making individual career counseling
13	Implement career development program (7-8 sessions), making individual career counseling
14	Final exam

Recommended Sources

RECOMMENDED SOURCES
Textbook	Yeşilyaprak, B. (2011). Mesleki rehberlik ve kariyer danışmanlığı: kuramdan uygulamaya. Ankara: Pegem Akademi Kuzgun, Y. (2000). Meslek danışmanlığı: Kuramlar ve uygulamalar. Ankara: Nobel. Sharf, R. S. (1992). Applying career development theory to counseling (3rd Ed.). California: Brooks/Cole. Zunker, V. G. (2002). Career counseling. Applied concepts of life planning (6th Ed). California: Brooks/Cole.
Additional Resources

Material Sharing

MATERIAL SHARING
Documents
Assignments
Exams

Assessment

ASSESSMENT
IN-TERM STUDIES	NUMBER	PERCENTAGE
Homework	2	100
Mid-Term	-	-
Final	-	-
Total		100
CONTRIBUTION OF FINAL EXAMINATION TO OVERALL GRADE
CONTRIBUTION OF IN-TERM STUDIES TO OVERALL GRADE
Total		100

Course’s Contribution to Program

COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
No	Program Learning Outcomes	Contribution
No	Program Learning Outcomes	1	2	3	4	5
1	Having knowledge of past, basic though and principles of the PCG, and implementing PCG	X
2	Comprehending meaning and importance of the coordination, consultation/consulting and supervision in the PCG field, and implementing them		X
3	Having knowledge of ethical rules accepted by national and international PCG associations, and implementing them				X
4	Learning to accept everyone as they are / with all kind of features by the multicultural approach				X
5	Learning theories/information about cultural awareness, cultural social justice, solution of conflicts, and other cultural behaviors; for development and health of human soul, mind and body, and implementing them				X
6	Learning theories related to the development, learning and personality development so as to facilitate positive development and wellness of individual for his/her life time, and implementing them				X
7	Understanding the environmental factors affecting normal and abnormal behaviors, psychopathology, disability conditions and crisis during his/her development process,			X
8	Learning and implementing the career consulting, processes, techniques and sources, career development and decision-making model so as to include those applied to certain groups in the global economy					X
9	Learning psychological consulting theories, being aware and use of intervention techniques suitable for counselees in practice			X
10	Learning group process, roles and behaviors of group members, group working, therapeutic factors, and principles and techniques of group dynamics containing developmental stages			X

ECTS

ECTS ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD BY THE COURSE DESCRIPTION
Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Course Duration (Including the exam week: 15x Total course hours)	15	1	15
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)	15	5	75
Homework	1	5	5
Mid-Term	-	-	-
Final	-	-	-
Total Work Load			95
Total Work Load / 25 (h)			3,8
ECTS Credit of the Course			4

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