Faculty of Health Sciences · Social Work · Undergraduate
ECTS: 5 T+P+L: 3+0+0 Compulsory
Coordinator: Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Sena ÖKSÜZ POPLATA
Course Objective
The aim of this course is to provide the students with an understanding of how to handle these events on the basis of life cycle events, life crises, social service knowledge, starting from young adulthood and from old age and death within the framework of ecological and social system.
Course Content
adulthood, vital crises, middle adulthood, family life cycle, marital life and crises, conflict, middle age crises, old age, successful survival, old age theories, problems, death loss and grief with some behavioral disorders.
Course Learning Outcomes
- Understanding the characteristics of adulthood, middle adulthood in the framework of ecological-system approach
- to deal with the general characteristics of the aging period within the ecological-system approach
- be able to evaluate the crises of adulthood and old age in the framework of ecological-system approach
- to understand and deal with death and mourning processes in social service context
- 88/5000evaluate psychopathological conditions and problems of adulthood and old age
Core Area Distribution
(31) Social and Behavioural Science%100
Teaching Methods
ExpressionQuestion-AnswerDiscussion
Assessment & Evaluation
HomeworkOral ExamProject / DesignTesting (Essay / Tests: True-Falls, multiple-choice, short answer, matching)
ECTS / Workload
| Activity | Quantity | Duration (h) | Total Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (Including Exam Week) | 17 | 3 | 51 |
| Out of Class Study Period | 10 | 1 | 10 |
| Midterm | 1 | 7 | 7 |
| Quiz | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Assignment | 7 | 2 | 14 |
| Practice | 5 | 2 | 10 |
| Final | 1 | 8 | 8 |
Course Schedule
| Week | Subject | Preparation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | structuring the schedule | Reading- Literature Review |
| 2 | Life-cycle of individual and family | Reading- Literature Review |
| 3 | healthy and dysfunctional families | Reading- Literature Review |
| 4 | Reason for family therapy, evaluation in family therapy & ethics in family therapy | Reading- Literature Review |
| 5 | The process of family therapy | Reading- Literature Review |
| 6 | Couple and marriage enrichment & couple and marriage | Reading- Literature Review |
| 7 | Psychodynamic and Bowen family therapies | Reading- Literature Review |
| 8 | Midterm exam | Ara Sınav |
| 9 | Experiential family therapy | Reading- Literature Review |
| 10 | Behavioral and cognitive-behavioral family therapies | Reading- Literature Review |
| 11 | Structural family therapy | Reading- Literature Review |
| 12 | Strategic and systematic family therapies | Reading- Literature Review |
| 13 | Solution-focused and narrative family therapies | Reading- Literature Review |
| 14 | Working with single parent families | Reading- Literature Review |
| 15 | Working with families of remarried couples | Reading- Literature Review |
| 16 | Final Exam | Final Sınavı |