Guidance and Psychological Counseling Yeditepe University

Overview

Students enrolled in Guidance and Psychological Counseling undergraduate program at Yeditepe University not only have knowledge in the field of basic educational sciences, but also have the knowledge, skills and equipment to provide guidance and psychological counseling services to children and adults, and reinforce these skills through school practices.

Objectives

• To know and apply the history, basic philosophy and principles of PDR.
• To be able to comprehend and apply the meaning and importance of coordination, consultation / counseling and supervision in the field of counseling.
• To know and apply the ethical rules accepted by national and international counseling associations.
• To learn and apply theories related to development, learning and personality development in a way that facilitates the individual's lifelong positive development and well-being.
• Understand the environmental factors that influence normal and abnormal behavior, psychopathology, disability, and crises in the developmental process.
• To learn and apply career counseling, processes, techniques and resources to career development and decision-making models, including those applied to specific groups in the global economy.
• Recognize and use appropriate intervention techniques for clients in practice by learning counseling theories.
• To learn group process, roles and behaviors of group members, therapeutic factors of group work, principles and techniques of group dynamics including developmental stages.
• Understand and apply the basic concepts of standardized and non-standardized tests and other assessment techniques including environmental assessment, performance assessment, individual and group testing and inventory methods, psychological tests and behavioral observations.
• To be able to conduct research in the field of counseling and guidance counseling by learning qualitative and quantitative scientific research methods and to present the results in written form.