The Psychological Counseling and Educational Guidance Unit in our college held a course on positive psychology, which lasted for four weeks from 3-3-2022, in the Psychological Counseling Unit Hall in the College of Medicine.
The course dealt with the three psychological theories that explain human behavior: the analytical theory, the behavioral theory, and the phenomenological theory.
A number of members of the university’s various faculties and some of our students, in addition to the employees of the Department of Health and Education, participated in this course.
The course was aimed at
Learn the skill of self and time management.
Identifying the skill of counseling (psychological counseling) and its components.
Empowering participants with positive psychotherapy skills
Providing subscribers with sufficient information to understand the nature of psychological and mental illnesses.
Develop the skills of managing psychological stress and psychological resilience.
Recognize positive psychology as a basis for educational counseling and guidance.
Recognizing problem-based learning as a path to positive heuristic psychology
The course is designed according to the principles of adult learning andragogy, and thus it gives centralization to the learner and the information he needs to solve his daily and professional problems. The material presented is a translation of the goals, that is, they are the same as the titles of the lectures.
The lectures are interactive workshops where the participants are divided into small groups from the beginning. Evaluation at the end of the course depends on attendance and activity during the course in addition to the educational portfolio. The books approved in the course that will be sent to the electronic platform: The Art of Consultation – Rollo May
Counseling and psychotherapy theories – Kamal Youssef Ballan
Learned Optimism: Martin Slickman
The Power of Positive Psychology, Dr. Ibrahim Younes
Unleashing the Energy of Life: Readings in Positive Psychology – Mustafa Hegazy
The Verb of Reading – Wolfgang Iser
