GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH AND BEHOVIORAL PROBLEMS/FEL310A
Course Title: PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH AND BEHOVIORAL PROBLEMS
Credits 2 ECTS 5
Semester 6 Compulsory/Elective Compulsory
COURSE INFO
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
  Lecturer Ph.D. Canan Gürsel
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  http://www.websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/canangursel
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  canangursel@gazi.edu.tr
 -- LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT
Normal and abnormal behavior and their properties taken into account when assessing the knowledge and recognition of mental disorders.
Distinguish the mental disorders and diseases from normal behaviors and know the characteristics of the symptoms.
Know the diagnostic systems and properties.
Know the disorders and distinguish from each others.
Know the theoretical approaches to explaining the causes of mental disorders and their criticisms .
 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  This course is conducted in the form of face to face education.
 -- PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES
  There are no prerequisites for this course.
 -- RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENTS
  There is no recommended optional programme component for this course. There are no courses related to this course.
 --COURSE CONTENT
1. Week  Historical Background and Theoretical Perspectives of Abnormal Psychology.
2. Week  Classification and Assesment. The clinical evaluation and research methods in the study of abnormal behavior.
3. Week  Anxiety Disorders.
4. Week  Somatoform and Dissociative Disorders.
5. Week  Eating Disorders.
6. Week  Mood Disorders.
7. Week  Mid-term.
8. Week  Schizophrenia.
9. Week  Alcohol and Substance Use Disorders.
10. Week  Personality Disorders.
11. Week  Sexual Disorders.
12. Week  Childhood Disorders.
13. Week  Aging and psychological problems.
14. Week  Final.
15. Week  
16. Week  
 -- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
  Davison,G.C.,Neale,M.N. (2004). Abnormal Psychology(Çev.Ed.İ.Dağ),Turkish Psychological Association publications. Butcher,J.N., Mineka, S., Hooley, J. M. (2013), Abnormal Psychology,Kaknüs Publications. DSM-5 Diagnostic Criteria Reference Manual, (çev.E. Köroğlu) American Psychiatric Association, 2013, HYB Publishing.
 -- PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS
  Lecture,question and answer.
 -- WORK PLACEMENT(S)
  Not Applicable
 -- ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Percentage
 Mid-terms
1
40
 Assignment
0
0
 Exercises
0
0
 Projects
0
0
 Practice
0
0
 Quiz
0
0
 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade  
40
 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade  
60
 -- WORKLOAD
 Efficiency  Total Week Count  Weekly Duration (in hour)  Total Workload in Semester
 Theoretical Study Hours of Course Per Week
14
2
28
 Practising Hours of Course Per Week
0
 Reading
8
6
48
 Searching in Internet and Library
4
6
24
 Designing and Applying Materials
0
 Preparing Reports
3
3
9
 Preparing Presentation
0
 Presentation
0
 Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term
1
4
4
 Final and Studying for Final
2
5
10
 Other
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
123
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
4.92
 ECTS: 
5
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
 PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1Students have got the sufficiency about "department of philosophy and related fields teaching" and "educational sciences". They know the laws and rules about their profession.X
2Students take the theoretical and practical knowledge which is interested in "department of philosophy and related fields teaching" and "educational sciences" to solve the educational problems.X
3Students determine the educational problems and offer a solution these problems. They choose and practise the methods of analytic about these problems.X
4Students explain the theory, the model, the principle and the generalization about philosophy, psychology, sociology and logic. According to this explanation, they declare the basic principles of department of philosophy and related fields teaching.X
5Students know the individual, peripheral and social factors which have an effect on the human relations. By this way, they acquire effective listening, positive feedback and creative problem solving.X
6Students acquire some suffiencies that inquiry, evaluation, decision making, analyse and syntheses, relating between events, comparison, gain a different viewpoint, life-wide learning, logical thinking etc.X
7Students organize activity and material building about related field teaching. They choose and use the educational technology for quality education activity.X
8Students research and evaulate scientifically the notions and the idea about profession of a teacher and the education technology.X
9Students know the basic notion of growing and know the characteristics of adolescence and adult periods.X
10Students research related literature and use data bases. They use effectively the library, internet, the museum and the research center.X
11They acquire the skills that learning to learn, self-regulation, life long learning, critical thinking, creative thinking, logical thinking.X
12Students obey the professional and ethical rules and participate in the collusive practices. They protect the values of democratic, social, scientific, cultural and ethical.X