| Course Code |
Course Name |
Credit Hours |
Prerequests |
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10805100
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Introduction to Psychology
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3 |
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| This course aims to introduce psychology in terms of concept, objectives, fields and methods of research. In addition, it deals with several psychological subjects that interest interns of psychology, such as: concentration, memory, conflict, and motivation. It also provides an overview of several psychological theories, such as: analytics, behaviorism, cognitivism, Gestaltism, and Rogerism. |
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10805101
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Guidance and Psychological Counseling
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3 |
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| This course aims to introduce psychological counseling in terms of: objectives, methods, presuppositions, principles, theories, fields, approaches, and the means of data collection. It also discusses the process of counseling, guidance and psychological counseling programs in the schools, some students’ school problems (including absences, lack of motivation, school violence, test anxiety), and the counselor’s role in dealing with these problems). |
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10805102
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Psychology of Growth
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3 |
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| This course looks at growth in terms of concept, development, and its physical, mental, social, and emotional dimensions. It also covers the principles of growth - its physical and psychological developments, the extent of the impact of its attributes and developmental characteristics on genetic factors, family and social upbringing; and furthermore, the important relationship between the development of important manifestations of growth and family, environment and school formation in various stages of life. The course also offers a range of default training cases related to various aspects of growth, the developmental changes that occur on individuals in different ages, and the characteristics of some developmental stages such as adolescence, maturity and senescence. |
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10805103
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Physiological Psychology
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3 |
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| This course covers the different functions of the human body and their relationship with human behavior. Students learn about the nervous system (the brain and spinal cord), as well as the endocrine glands and the role of each system on a person’s emotional and psychological situation. Furthermore, the course provides an adequate explanation of the sensory organs functions - namely, eyesight, hearing, skin sensations, taste, smell, etc. In addition, the course addresses some physical problems that are rooted in psychological causes, the psychological methods that can be used to alleviate psychological pressures, and dealing with psychophysical problems. The practical side of this course includes holding visits and hosting instructors of the Faculty of Medicine to introduce the physiological functions of organs, and understanding the nature of the psychological and physical sides of the human being. |
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10805104
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Principles of Mental Health
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3 |
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10805205
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Personality Psychology
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3 |
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| This course is designed to introduce the personality in terms of concept, definition, and theory, as it also discusses the factors and indicators related to forming the personality and giving it specific traits. The training aspect in this course includes training students on using and correcting some personality tests, such as Cattell and Eysenck. |
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10805206
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Theories of Psychological Counseling
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3 |
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| This course addresses theory in the field of psychological counseling in terms of historical background, development and basic principles, the most important therapeutic and counseling methods emanating from each theory, and the strengths and weaknesses of each theory. It also discusses some cases and their treatments according to the theories of psychological counseling and treatment. In this course, students receive training on some counseling cases through role playing, displaying remedial audio and visual recordings and discussing them according to theories of psychological counseling, such as Stan’s and Suad’s clinical case |
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10805207
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Mental Disorders and Their Diagnosis
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3 |
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| This course covers various mental and psychological disorders such as personality, anxiety, sleeping, eating, and schizophrenic and bipolar disorders; and the classification, prevention and treatment of disorders. The course trains students how to use global manuals such as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual DSM-IV and the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) produced by the World Health Organization. |
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10805208
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Social Psychology
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3 |
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| This course covers subjects in social psychology - its objectives and fields, research methods, social upbringing and growth and change of trends, attraction, violence and aggression, compliance, obedience, delinquency, social impact and influence, leadership, group dynamics, and environmental psychology impacts. This course trains students to conduct surveys and social studies, including special studies examining trends and tendencies and community problems. |
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10805209
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Psychological Counseling Skills
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3 |
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| This course trains students on basic skills necessary for practicing counseling and on master advisory interviews skills through role playing and displaying visual and auditory recordings - beginning with establishing the advisory relationship, attentive listening skills, clarification, showing feelings and attendance behavior, summarization skills, posing questions skills, confrontation, explanation, skills of motivation and challenge, behavioral problems identification, goals identification; and ending with dealing with hesitation, resisting the counselor, ending the counseling relationship, evaluation and referring. On the other side, the practical aspect of this course includes practical training for these skills through role playing, displaying remedial sessions which contain using these skills in the fields of individual and group and family counseling |
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10805210
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Computer Statistical Methods
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3 |
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| This course covers basic concepts in descriptive, analytical statistics, such as parametric tests hypotheses related to the arithmetic mean, and the analysis of variance; furthermore, the course introduces some non-parametric tests and their uses in the educational and psychological fields and their software applications. The course aims to train students on preparing reports for inferential statistics using the computer |
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10805211
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School Counseling
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3 |
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| This course deals with school counseling in terms of: the counselor’s role and responsibility, the advisory services the school counselor offers, and the procedures and advisory programs the school counselor applies. The course trains students on establishing, developing and applying advisory programs that address school problems, such as a decrease in academic achievement, violence, dropping out of schools, exam anxiety, and lack of study motivation. |
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10805212
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Educational Psychology
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3 |
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| This course describes educational psychology and its relationship to general psychology, how to apply behaviorism and cognitivism concepts in the process of education that will facilitate the process of learning, the appropriate atmosphere for the process of learning, education of slow learners, disabled and talented children, and the necessary capacities to complete and measure the process of teaching and evaluate the process of learning and teaching. |
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10805313
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Psychological Measurement
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3 |
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| This course includes reviewing major concepts in measurement and statistics, introducing the classical measurement theory. It also addresses the psychometric properties of tests and their relationship to the theory of measurement; furthermore, the course trains students on psychological measurement in the educational process and checking on the quality of the psychometric properties for accurate measurement. |
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10805314
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Experimental Psychology
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3 |
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| This course deals with the methods of laboratory and field psychological experimentation in the fields of psychology and the basic elements for the psychological experience. In addition, students are trained on holding memory, reaction time, perception, and doing field experiments, including computerizing and analyzing their results |
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10805315
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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3 |
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| This course is designed to introduce the principles, foundations and steps of behavioral therapy, and to study the principles and foundations that cognitive therapy is based on in its different aspects. The course addresses studying therapeutic cognitive methods, such as reinforcement, deletion, progressive sensitivity reduction, assertiveness training, saturation, and aversion therapy. Furthermore, the course addresses the various cognitive methods in treating the problems of anxiety, depression and tension. The practical aspect includes a set of therapeutic video tapes on the cognitive behavioral techniques, and the modeling of these techniques is applied to many of the behavioral cognitive problems, such as exam anxiety, social anxiety and irrational thoughts. |
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10805316
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Group Counseling
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3 |
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| This course addresses the nature of group counseling, and how to organize the advisory group and leadership patterns; furthermore, it helps students to set and develop group advisory programs which address the different advisory categories. |
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10805317
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Contemporary Issues in Psychological Counseling
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3 |
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| This course deals with contemporary issues in psychological counseling in its both theoretical and practical aspects, including the methods and theories of modern psychological counseling such as narrative therapy, brief therapy, feminist therapy, positive psychology, and technology and psychological counseling; in addition, the course presents and discusses research papers on contemporary issues and areas. |
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10805318
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Students? Problems and Their Therapies
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3 |
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| This course includes an introduction on behavioral change, the main steps in behavioral change programs, and the behavioral, academic, and educational problems students face and their methods of dealing with them. The practical aspect, on the other hand, includes helping students to set and develop advisory programs for problems in the schools, such as dropping out of school, lack of motivation, nail-biting, nocturnal enuresis, and other problems students face at schools |
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10805319
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Psychological Addiction
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3 |
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| This course addresses the concept, reasons, and different types of addiction |
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10805320
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Media Psychology
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3 |
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| The aim of this course is to identify media psychology applications, such as publicity, psychological warfare, and spreading community awareness; furthermore, the course covers applications of psychological theories in the fields of media - particularly, the behavioral and cognitive theory. The practical aspect of this course is displayed through coordination with the Faculty of Media and An-Najah FM, preparing and presenting community awareness psychological programs, psychological counseling and the issues of interest to the local community |
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10805421
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Family Counseling
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3 |
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| This course covers the stages of family development, the characteristics of each stage, the psychological and social problems associated with each stage, and the most important theories that address psychological problems from the family perspective: the psychodynamic theory in family guidance and therapy, the behavioral theory in family guidance and therapy, the rational emotional theory and theory of systems. Students are trained on setting and developingfamilyadvisoryprogramsemanatingfromtheoriesofpsychological counseling, networking with family care and protection institutions to apply these programs, such as: enhancing the family communication programs, social programs to reduce conflicts, and family problems |
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10805422
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Career Counseling
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3 |
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| This course introduces career counseling in terms of definition, principles, importance, the different needs that led to its emergence, theories of selection, adaptation, and professional orientations, capabilities, readiness and different counseling programs. In addition, students learn the methods of guiding and career counseling which help them choose careers that suit their abilities and tendencies on the one hand, and conditions, circumstances of the profession, and community’s needs on the other. Students in this course are trained on using professions’ orientation tests and setting different career counseling programs, such as special programs to get rid of work pressures, or advisory programs for those who have suffered work injuries, the unemployed, and retirees; and coordinating with the concerned centers and institutions to apply some of these programs |
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10805423
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Skills in Dealing with Psychological Pressure
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3 |
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| This course is divided into two sections: the theoretical section, which aims to provide students with individual counseling skills, group counseling and guidance, building and developing counseling programs and remedial intervention programs. The practical section, on the other hand, aims to train students on the methods and counseling techniques and follow them under supervision, applying what they have studied to 200 practical hours spent in local schools under the supervision of course instructor and in coordination with the school’s psychological counselor. |
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10805424
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Research Methodologies in Counseling and Guidance
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3 |
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| This course introduces psychological pressure in terms of types and reasons, social, psychological, physical and emotional implications of the psychological pressures, personality relationship with the psychological pressures, different theories that try to explain psychological pressures such as Seeley’s, Lazarus and Cannon theories, skills in dealing with psychological pressures (for instance, creative problem-solving, building knowledge, training to relax, training to conduct assertive behavior, Yoga, joke and humor therapy, music therapy, social skills, and time management skills). |
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10805425
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Psychological Tests
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3 |
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| This course discusses the nature and purpose of research, reviewing educational literature, methods of data collection, different research methodologies, the historical, survey, case study, feedback studies, experimental approaches, research designs, pre-experimental designs, semi-experimental designs, and real experimental designs. The student is asked to prepare a research proposal, taking into account the instructions and accepted research rules. |
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10805426
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Counseling Field Training 1
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4 |
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| This course covers various psychological tests in terms of characteristics, types, sincerity, reliability, and how to use them in the various psychological fields. The course also trains students on building and computerizing psychological tests, using tests in the fields of psychology and guidance, such as personality tests, IQs tests, tendency tests and career selection. |
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10805427
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Counseling Field Training 2
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4 |
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| This course applies the principles students learned in the Field Training 1, Group Counseling, and Special Groups Counseling course; students are sent to counseling and psychotherapy centers, the Red Crescent, and non- governmental centers for the individual and group intervention procedures, guidance sessions amounting to 200 training hours. There will also be supervisory meetings, and weekly trainings with students for two hours a week devoted to discussing the cases, video treatments, and reviewing reports students prepare and providing them with the appropriate feedback. |
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10805428
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Applied Graduation Project
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3 |
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| This course includes the application of the principles taught in the scientific research courses, psychometrics, psychological tests, and contemporary research issues in counseling. The teacher in this course helps students to choose research topics in the areas of psychology and counseling; the research topics are discussed collectively in front of a specialized committee of the faculty so that the faculty and psychological counseling programs may benefit from the results. |
| Course Code |
Course Name |
Credit Hours |
Prerequests |
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10805151
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Psychology of Play
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3 |
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| This course discusses the nature of play, its historical evolution, educators’ (such as Froebel and Pestalozzi) interest in its educational importance, exposure to psychological viewpoints of play behavior as it is explained in Freud’s, Bruner’s, Piaget’s and Ericsson’s theories, and the importance of play in kindergarten, and adopting it in the primary education core for children before school. The course deals with the methods and mechanisms of employing play in the counseling process, the different models of play used in the counseling process; furthermore, the practical aspect includes helping students to develop psychological counseling programs based on playing. |
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10805152
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Adolescence Psychology
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3 |
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| This course covers teenagers’ personalities, physical, emotional, mental, and cognitive changes which occur in adolescence; in addition to the stages of adolescence, the characteristics of each stage, and their relevance to the stages of basic, secondary and university education, with a focus on the demands of each stage, as well as the psychological and social adolescence problems |
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10805253
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Introduction to Special Education
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3 |
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| This course introduces students to individuals with special needs with a focus on the different categories of disabilities, the nature and forms of disabilities in terms of causes and characteristics, and the best ways and means of providing services for these disabilities which benefit the maximum degree of the capabilities of individuals of special needs. The practical aspect of this course includes distributing students to care and rehabilitation centers for individuals with special needs to become aware of the counseling and rehabilitation services provided in these centers. |
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10805254
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Cognitive Psychology
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3 |
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| This course discusses the cognitive processes of information and knowledge in each individual’s cognitive system; it addresses introducing this science and its subjects, attention, perception, remembrance, forgetfulness, problem solving and strategies, gaining experience and the language of humanity in terms of acquisition, evolution and understanding. |
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10805255
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Criminal Psychology
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3 |
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| This course studies the psychological, biological, social, and environmental factors of criminal behavior; the psychology of the judge, attorney general, investigator, accused, victim, witness, defendant, and lawyer; and then the modern psychological means of investigation, instincts and imbalances, especially sexual and mental instincts, psychological and mental retardation, and their relationship to criminal behavior; and the impact of the psychological diseases in the criminal responsibility. The practical aspect entails student visits to rehabilitation and care centers, care for juvenile delinquents, and applying some counseling services in the criminal behavior. |
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10805356
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Crises Guidance
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3 |
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| This course introduces students to the concept of the counseling process and strategies of using it in dealing with crises, and it also includes the patterns and stages of crises in the field of education, the application of crises (divorce, death, sickness, fatal diseases, and suicide), the therapeutic interventions emanating from psychological counseling therapies which could be used in dealing with the crisis, in addition to training on time management and dealing with crises preventively and indicatively. |
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10805357
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Counseling for Special Needs
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3 |
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| This course studies groups of individuals with special needs, in terms of the nature of their problems, the causes and symptoms of their disabilities, and counseling methods and indicators that depict the possibility of evolution of problems for these groups, of which focus is being given to alcoholics, drug addicts, the elderly, abused children, juvenile delinquents, street children, homosexuals, school violence groups, cancer patients, chronic diseases, divorces, taunted women, the agonized, children in charity institutions, and spinster women. The practical aspect of this course includes training students on building counseling programs for category of the advisory categories |
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10805458
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Clinical Psychology
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3 |
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| This course focuses on the diagnosis of emotional and mental disorders, their treatment and prevention, and training students on using various psychological therapies. It also addresses the clinical categories diagnostically, preemptively and therapeutically, distributing students among clinical centers to acquire special training skills to deal with clinical cases and psychological tests, such as the MMPI test, and Wechsler and Binet intelligence tests |
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10805459
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Religious Counseling
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3 |
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10805460
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Counseling Expressive Activity
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3 |
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| This course addresses the methods of using expressive activities in counseling, such as drawing, music, clay, drama, novel, and expressive writing; in addition to the psychological theories of each of these activities, such as the Adler, Gestalt theories; and cognitive and behavioral expressive activities. The practical aspect of this course includes training students on building and developing counseling programs that are based on expressive activities to deal with various counseling problems, such as trauma, depression, loss, and phobias. |
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11011222
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation
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3 |
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