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RPD 517 - Crisis management and trauma psychology

Graduate Education Institute · Psychological Counseling and Guidance · Master

ECTS: 7.5 T+P+L: 3+0+0 Departmental Elective
Coordinator: Tez Danışmanı Ali ERYILMAZ

Course Objective

Understanding the concept and subjects related to crisis and crisis intervention, which is an important part of the psychological counselor's protective mental health, watching and discussing the films and learning the crime intervention skills.

Course Content

Crisis definition, stages, stress, effective communication and effective coping methods, Crisis types; state and developmental crises (migration, earthquake, chronic diseases, death, suicide, burnout), Types of crisis intervention, Crisis intervention steps and skills.

Course Learning Outcomes

  1. Gives the main features that arise in various crisis situations
  2. Learn the different types of crisis intervention styles and skills that can not identify state and developmental crises.
  3. Learn state and developmental crises, watch and discuss eight different films about these crises.
  4. As a preventive mental health, you will find that crisis and cruel intervention is an important part of psychological counseling.
  5. Explain the stages of crisis counseling
  6. Learn basic concepts and approaches related to crisis and crisis intervention
  7. Kriz ve krizin doğasını tanır
  8. Recognize the nature of crisis and crisis
  9. Understands the stages of the crisis.
  10. It recognizes the basic needs of children who are faced with crisis situations in the school.
  11. Recognizes basic crisis counseling skills

ECTS / Workload

ActivityQuantityDuration (h)Total Workload
Course Duration (Including Exam Week)17351
Out of Class Study Period17351
Midterm12828
Quiz000
Assignment12525
Practice000
Final13232

Course Schedule

WeekSubjectPreparation
1Introduction of the course: informing about the scope, importance
2Definition and stages of crisis
3Types of crises: state and developmental crises, effective communication, stress
4Continuation of different state crises and effective ability to cope
5Developmental crisis, phases
6State crisis and discussion, crime intervention skills
7Violence and disasters in school
8Midterm
9Bullying
10Abuse of child
11General principles of crisis counseling and prevention
12Psychological trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder
13School, child and trauma
14Developmental crisis, discussion, types of crime intervention: individual and general approaches, crime intervention skills.
15General Evaluation
16Final Exam