Information Package / Course Catalogue
Psychological Interview
Course Code: PSİ306
Course Type: Required
Couse Group: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 1
Prt.: 2
Credit: 2
Lab: 0
ECTS: 6
Objectives of the Course

Providing to learn skills and techniques which are necessary for cilinical interview by introducing basic characteristics of clinical assessment and interview.

Course Content

Developing therapeutic relationship for clinical interview and helping, listening skills during the clinical interview, examination of projection and confrontation skills, taking personal history of client, examination of mental state, Interviewing with special groups, assessment and termination skills.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Assoc. Prof. Mehmet ŞAKİROĞLU
Learning Outcomes
1.Student can have a pre-interview during the internship at the hospital
2.Student can write a report relating to pre-interview
3.Student has therotical and applied knowledge of interview skills
4.Student has interview skills in the group therapies.
5.Student knows basic concepts in interpersonal communication.
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Klinik Görüşme Ustalıkları, Veri Toplama, Hastayı Değerlendirme ve Yönlendirme, Robert E. Froelich & F. Marian Bishop, Çev. Levent Mete, İnci Doğaner ve Işıl Vahip, Saray Medikal Yayıncılık, İzmir, 1993.
2.Klinik Psikolojide Görüşme Becerileri, İrem Anlı, Nobel Tıp Kitabevleri, 2011. Önerilen Kaynaklar:
3.Learning The Art of Helping: Building Blocks and Techniques, Mark E. Young, (5th. Ed), Pearson, 2012 .
4.Psikolojik Danışma İlke ve Teknikleri Psikolojik Yardım Süreci El Kitabı, Harold Hackney & Sherry Cornier, Çev. Tuncay Ergene ve Seher Aydemir Sevim, Mentis Yayıncılık, Ankara, 2009.
5.Clinical Interviewing, John Sommers-Flanagan & Rita Sommers-Flanagan, (4th. Ed), Wiley, New Jersey, 2009
6.Klinik Görüşme, John Sommers-Flanagan & Rita Sommers-Flanagan (Çeviri Editörü: Orçun Yorulmaz), İthaki Yayınları, İstanbul, 2015
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Introduction to lecture, subjects
Week 2 - Theoretical
Developing therapeutic relationship for clinical interview and helping.
Week 3 - Practice
Developing therapeutic relationship for clinical interview and helping.
Week 4 - Theoretical
Listening skills during the clinical interview
Week 5 - Practice
Listening skills during the clinical interview
Week 6 - Theoretical
First session
Week 7 - Practice
Methods in the first session
Week 8 - Theoretical
Taking personal history of client
Week 9 - Theoretical & Practice
Privacy and therapy room rules
Week 10 - Theoretical
Mental Status Examination
Week 11 - Practice
Mental Status Examination
Week 12 - Practice
Assessment skills
Week 13 - Theoretical & Practice
Termination skills in therapy
Week 14 - Practice
Formulation and asking questions
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Final Examination1%60
Verbal Examination1%40
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory141128
Lecture - Practice281284
Midterm Examination115116
Final Examination120121
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)149
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
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OÇ-1
5
5
3
4
1
1
3
2
2
1
OÇ-2
3
3
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3
1
3
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2
3
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3
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3
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5
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1
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3
3
1
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3
3
1
1
3
3
2
1
3
1
Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026