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Course Code: 
PCG 365
Course Type: 
Area Elective
P: 
3
Lab: 
0
Credits: 
3
ECTS: 
5
Course Language: 
İngilizce
Course Objectives: 
Teaching the concepts of loss and grief to the students, discussing the experiences of loss and grief in accordance with theoretical approaches, providing students effective helping skills and awareness to use in the grief counseling process.
Course Content: 

The meaning of the loss and grief process, normal grief and pathological grief, changing rituals depending on socioeconomic and sociocultural factors, protective factors during the grief process, coping and resilience, application examples from the field and case studies.

Course Methodology: 
1: Lecture, 2: Case study, 3: Problem Solving , 4: Discussion, 5:Demonstration, 6: Group work
Course Evaluation Methods: 
1. Written exam, 2. Multiple-choice test, 3. Space-filling, 4. Right-Wrong type, 5. Oral examination, 6. Portfolio

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Course Learning Outcomes

1) Students can explain concepts such as loss, grief, mourning, and ritual.
2) Students know the dynamics of loss and grief experiences. 
3) Students can explain the differences between grief counseling and grief therapy.
4) Students know the characteristics of effective grief counseling and skills to help in grief counseling.
5) Students can examine the practices related to grief and conduct implications.

Course Flow

Weeks Topics
1 Meeting and introduction of the course. Grief and grief types.
2 Death, rituals, death and anxiety
3 The concepts of mourning, grief and sorrow.
4 Personality, attachment, and grief
5 Physical, cognitive, emotional and behavioral responses in the process of loss and grief
6 Kübler-Ross, Worden, Lindemann: phases of loss and approaches to the counselee
7 Normal grief, complicated grief, pathological grief
8 Midterm
9 Grief counseling and grief therapy, aiding process in pathological grief
10 The counselor / therapist's own grief 
11 Approaches, principles and techniques in grief counseling
12 Communication and helping process with the individual / family experiencing grief
13 Group work, case reports
14 Semester review and Final Exam

Recommended Sources

Textbook Worden, J.W.(1989) Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy. NY:Tavistock Publication.

Material Sharing

Documents Shared in classroom/via e-mail.

Assessment

IN-TERM STUDIES NUMBER PERCENTAGE
Mid-Term  1 30
Presentation 1 20
Final 1 50
Total   100
CONTRIBUTION OF FINAL EXAMINATION TO OVERALL GRADE   50
CONTRIBUTION OF IN-TERM STUDIES TO OVERALL GRADE   50
Total   100

Course’s Contribution to Program

No Program Learning Outcomes Contribution
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

Activities Quantity Duration
(Hour) 		Total
Workload
(Hour)
Course Duration (Including the exam week: 15x Total course hours) 15 3 45
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice) 15 4 60
Mid-Term  1 3 3
Presentation 1 3 3
Final  1 3 3
Total Work Load     114
Total Work Load / 25 (h)     4,56
ECTS Credit of the Course     5
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