Guidance and Psychological Counseling (Non-Thesis)
Master	Length of the Programme: 1.5	Number of Credits: 90	TR-NQF-HE: Level 7	QF-EHEA: Second Cycle	EQF: Level 7

ECTS Course Information Package

School/Faculty/Institute

Graduate School

Course Code

PDR 507

Course Title in English

Mindfulness-based Approaches in Psychological Counseling

Course Title in Turkish

Danışmanlıkta Bilinçli- Farkındalık Temelli Yaklaşımlar

Language of Instruction

Type of Course

Exercise,Ters-yüz öğrenme,Lecture,Practical

Level of Course

Intermediate

Semester

Spring

Contact Hours per Week

Lecture: 3

Recitation: -

Lab: -

Other: -

Estimated Student Workload

130 hours per semester

Number of Credits

5 ECTS

Grading Mode

Standard Letter Grade

Pre-requisites

None

Co-requisites

None

Expected Prior Knowledge

None

Registration Restrictions

Graduate Students Only

Overall Educational Objective

Understanding the concept of conscious awareness, its scientific basis, applications and applications in the school environment and counseling.

Course Description

Mindfulness is an attention directing approach. Its basis is based on eastern traditions. Its applications have been carried out in many clinical and non-clinical settings for the last 20 years and provide scientifically meaningful results. Especially in school environments, many ministries of national education around the world offer unique programs for students and teachers. It is used to intervene in many problematic areas for students and teachers in schools. Attention, awareness (physical, mental and emotional), especially in the regulation of emotions, are promising in making desired changes and adjustments in interpersonal relationships. Therefore, the content of this course to be taken in the master's program will include theory and practice in which psychological counselors will acquire these skills and can transfer them to their sessions/classes.

Course Learning Outcomes and Competences

Upon successful completion of the course, the learner is expected to be able to:
1) Defines conscious awareness as a concept.
2) Recognizes and makes sense of theories and research in the field of mindfulness that show beneficial effects for physical and mental health.
3) Distinguishes strategies for working with thoughts, emotions and sensations, developing capacities to increase mind-body awareness in the experience of the present moment.
4) Understanding the discipline of practicing, developing your own mindfulness practices and adapting them to your daily life

Program Learning Outcomes/Course Learning Outcomes	1	2	3	4
1) Develop and deepen the knowledge that theoretical and practical based on undergraduate qualifications.
2) Understand and discuss the interdisciplinary interaction related to the field of guidance and psychological counseling.
3) Understand theoretical and experiential perspectives of educational psychology.
4) Identify historical, contemporary, and future theoretical perspectives that underpin counseling practice.
5) Understand various developmental, personality, and learning theories and their relevance to counseling practice.
6) Demonstrate the theoretical and practical knowledge at the level of expertise and has acquired in the field of psychological counseling and guidance, develops and deepens this knowledge.
7) Understand the conceptual processes involved in the application of theory-based approaches with clients with different social, cultural and developmental characteristics.
8) Understand to incorporate theoretical understanding into work with clients, including using techniques and interventions, conceptualization, and developing a personal understanding of their own theoretical approach.
9) Understand group counseling dynamics and able to facilitate various types of groups using appropriate and relevant group facilitation skills to create transformational experiences with clients.
10) Recognize and consider a human development framework when implementing counseling services within a multi-tiered approach to prevention and intervention.
11) Write and interpret scientific research projects.
12) Analyze scientific researches and understand how research findings can be integrated into the counseling process in practice.
13) Demonstrates an ethical understanding of professional limitations and competencies and they understand how to self-evaluate their own performance in relation to these ethical standards.
14) Design a psychoeducation program to counseling practice informed by, and grounded in, theories, research, and personal experiences.
15) Demonstrate counseling skills that include interviewing and case conceptualization.
16) Apply and provide an individual and group counseling based on effective therapeutic factors and characteristics.
17) Recognizes the importance of staying dynamic and up to date by reading and continuing their experiences in the field.
18) Evaluate their own competencies and when working with a vulnerable population, continue to be reading and seek support or supervision from experts in the field.

Relation to Program Outcomes and Competences

N None	S Supportive	H Highly Related

	Program Outcomes and Competences	Level	Assessed by
1)	Develop and deepen the knowledge that theoretical and practical based on undergraduate qualifications.	N
2)	Understand and discuss the interdisciplinary interaction related to the field of guidance and psychological counseling.	S	Derse Katılım
3)	Understand theoretical and experiential perspectives of educational psychology.	N
4)	Identify historical, contemporary, and future theoretical perspectives that underpin counseling practice.	N
5)	Understand various developmental, personality, and learning theories and their relevance to counseling practice.	N
6)	Demonstrate the theoretical and practical knowledge at the level of expertise and has acquired in the field of psychological counseling and guidance, develops and deepens this knowledge.	S	Derse Katılım
7)	Understand the conceptual processes involved in the application of theory-based approaches with clients with different social, cultural and developmental characteristics.	S	Derse Katılım
8)	Understand to incorporate theoretical understanding into work with clients, including using techniques and interventions, conceptualization, and developing a personal understanding of their own theoretical approach.	N
9)	Understand group counseling dynamics and able to facilitate various types of groups using appropriate and relevant group facilitation skills to create transformational experiences with clients.	S	Derse Katılım
10)	Recognize and consider a human development framework when implementing counseling services within a multi-tiered approach to prevention and intervention.	N
11)	Write and interpret scientific research projects.	N
12)	Analyze scientific researches and understand how research findings can be integrated into the counseling process in practice.	N
13)	Demonstrates an ethical understanding of professional limitations and competencies and they understand how to self-evaluate their own performance in relation to these ethical standards.	N
14)	Design a psychoeducation program to counseling practice informed by, and grounded in, theories, research, and personal experiences.	H	Proje
15)	Demonstrate counseling skills that include interviewing and case conceptualization.	N
16)	Apply and provide an individual and group counseling based on effective therapeutic factors and characteristics.	N
17)	Recognizes the importance of staying dynamic and up to date by reading and continuing their experiences in the field.	S	Homework
18)	Evaluate their own competencies and when working with a vulnerable population, continue to be reading and seek support or supervision from experts in the field.	S	Homework

Prepared by and Date	,
Course Coordinator	ZÜMRA ATALAY
Semester	Spring
Name of Instructor

Course Contents

Week	Subject
1)	Introduction to the course, introduction of the training syllabus.
2)	Awareness and autopilot
3)	Living in the Mind
4)	Collecting the Dispersed Mind
5)	Recognizing unpleasantness and avoidance
6)	To give permission
7)	Conscious Awareness Experience in Silence
8)	Thoughts Are Not Always Reality
9)	Ways to Give Care
10)	Maintaining and developing new learning
11)	Mindfulness in Schools
12)	Mindfulness in Schools
13)	Conscious Awareness in Counseling
14)	Conscious Awareness in Counseling
15)	End of Term Exams
16)	End of Term Exams

Required/Recommended Readings

Önerilen Okumalar Atalay, Z. (2019). Mindfulness (Bilinçli Farkındalık): Farkındalıkla anda kalma sanatı. İstanbul: İnkılap Yayınevi. Atalay, Z. (2019). Şefkat: Zorlayıcı Duygu ve Durumlarla Yaşayabilme Sanatı. İstanbul: İnkılap Yayınevi. Atalay, Z. (2020). Mindfulness: Çocuklar için Bilinçli Farkındalık. İstanbul: Masalperest Yayınevi. Segal, Z. V., Williams, M., & Teasdale, J. (2018). Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depression. Guilford Publications. Williams, M., & Penman, D. (2020). Mindfulness - Zıvanadan Çıkmış Bir Dünyada Huzur Bulmak İçin 8 Haftalık Bir Rehber. İstanbul: Diyojen Yayıncılık.

Teaching Methods

Flipped Classroom, group and pair studies, articles, presentation

Homework and Projects

Laboratory Work

Computer Use

Other Activities

Assessment Methods

Assessment Tools	Count	Weight
Attendance	1	% 10
Application	1	% 20
Presentation	1	% 25
Project	1	% 45
TOTAL		% 100

Course Administration

Derse devam önemlidir ve derse katılım puanı verilecektir. Öğrencinin derslere %70 katılımı zorunludur. Geç ödevler; geç yüklendiği gün başı %10 puan kırılmaktadır. Ekstrem/Acil durumlar dışında 1 hafta(7 gün) geçmiş ödevler kabul edilmemektedir. Mazeretler dersin hocasına önceden belirtilmelidir. İntihal; YÖK Disiplin Yönetmeliği.

ECTS Student Workload Estimation

Activity	No/Weeks	Hours			Calculation
	No/Weeks per Semester	Preparing for the Activity	Spent in the Activity Itself	Completing the Activity Requirements
Course Hours	14	2	3	2	98
Homework Assignments	1	28	4		32
Total Workload					130
Total Workload/25					5.2
ECTS					5