Information Package / Course Catalogue
Gerıatrıc Mental Health And Psychıatrıc Nursıng
Course Code: HRS624
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: Third Cycle (Doctorate Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 2
Prt.: 4
Credit: 4
Lab: 0
ECTS: 6
Objectives of the Course

This course purposes to inform students about elderliness period and aging process, help students to assess mental health problems of an elder in a systematic approach and help students to gain different perspectives about care, treatment and rehabilitation of an elder and make students gain advanced level skills about nursing care for geriatric mental health.

Course Content

This course focuses on elderliness and changes appear in aging process, mental problems seen in elderly care and nursing care and applications of an elder.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes
1.Students know mental health problems seen in elder people,
2.integrate biological, psychological and social theories about psychopathology,
3.identify protecting factors of geriatric psychopathology and its risks,
4.do biopsychosocial diagnosis of an elder and give care,
5.define and apply protecting factors related to develop mental health of an elder with deterioration in cognitive functions.
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Updated article and books suggested by lecturer about each lecture. Updated article and books reached by the student via library and electronical sources.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
types of old age
Week 2 - Theoretical
Protecting mental health in elderliness
Week 3 - Theoretical
Aging process and changes appear in aging process
Week 4 - Theoretical
Mental health problems faced in elderly
Week 5 - Theoretical
Psychosocial diagnosing of an elder
Week 6 - Theoretical
Elder discrimination, abuse and nursing approach
Week 7 - Theoretical
Care problems of elderly
Week 8 - Theoretical
Care problems of elderly (Midterm Exam)
Week 9 - Theoretical
Home care and institution care of elderly
Week 10 - Theoretical
Ethical and legal problems in elderly
Week 11 - Theoretical
Geriatric policies, law and regulations
Week 12 - Theoretical
Role of nurses in developing mental health of an elder and his/her family
Week 13 - Theoretical
Treatment and rehabilitation of geropsychiatric disorders
Week 14 - Theoretical
Nursing care of the elderly and nursing process interventions
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Examination1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory154290
Assignment212228
Midterm Examination112214
Final Examination110212
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)144
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
PÇ-1
PÇ-2
PÇ-3
PÇ-4
PÇ-5
PÇ-6
PÇ-7
PÇ-8
OÇ-1
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
OÇ-2
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
OÇ-3
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
OÇ-4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
OÇ-5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026