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ADE 505 - Marriage and Family Counseling Theories

Graduate Education Institute · Family Counseling and Education · Master

ECTS: 7.5 T+P+L: 3+0+0 Departmental Elective
Coordinator: Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Fatma YAŞAR EKİCİ
Instructors: Prof. Dr. Ali Haydar ŞAR

Course Objective

Providing students to acquire basic concepts and topics of marriage and family counseling and education and to gain knowledge of the theories about family counseling.

Course Content

History of Family Therapy, Individual and Family Life Cycles, Healthy and Unhealthy Families, Ethical, Legal and Professional Issues in Family Therapy, Marriage and Divorce, Stages of Family Teraphy, Psychoanalytic Family Therapy, Bowen Family Therapy, Systemic Family Therapy, Experiential Family Therapy, Strategic Family Therapy, Structured Family Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Family Therapy, Solution-Focused Family Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Child-Centered Family Therapy.

Course Learning Outcomes

  1. Students explain stages of family teraphy
  2. Students explain theories of family therapy
  3. Students explain history of family therapy
  4. Students explain ethical, legal and professional ıssues in family therapy.
  5. Students explain ındividual and family life cycles
  6. Students explain theories of marriage and divorce.
  7. Students explain features of healthy and unhealthy families

Core Area Distribution

(14) Teacher Training and Education Science%30 (42) Life Sciences%70

Teaching Methods

ExpressionQuestion-AnswerDiscussionProblem Solving

Assessment & Evaluation

HomeworkTesting (Essay / Tests: True-Falls, multiple-choice, short answer, matching)

ECTS / Workload

ActivityQuantityDuration (h)Total Workload
Course Duration (Including Exam Week)17351
Out of Class Study Period17351
Midterm166
Quiz000
Assignment11444
Practice14228
Final188

Course Schedule

WeekSubjectPreparation
1Psychological Counseling TheoriesPrereading
2Narrative TherapyPrereading
3Relational Cultural TheoryPrereading
4Adlerian TherapyPrereading
5Existential TherapyPrereading
6Rational Emotional Behavior TherapyPrereading
7An overview.
8Ara SınavAra Sınav
9Short-Term Solution- TherapyPrereading
10Relational Cultural TherapyPrereading
11Feminist TherapyPrereading
12Bowen Family TherapyPrereading
13Acceptance and Installation TheoryPrereading
14Expressive TherapyPrereading
15An Overview.
16Final SınavıFinal Sınavı