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Degree Requirements

Doctoral Qualification Exam:

Students are required to take the doctoral qualifying exam at the end of the 4th semester. The doctoral qualification exam consists of two parts: written (method, case formulation, theoretical knowledge) and oral exam.

Conditions for taking the PhD qualifying exam:

1) Successfully complete all courses and training modules in the first two years of the curriculum.

2) Cultural events in one of the two options presented below must have been carried out.

(a) Having uploaded (submitted) at least one article from one of the national or international indexed journals (the journal in question is selected as an academic gathering). This article may be a research article, or it may be a meta-analysis or review article.

(b) Daily academic activities at least once or at least twice:

Making oral presentations at national or international psychology congresses*,

Submission of a case study article in a national or international journal (must be a journal in which the consultant will be approved).

Graduation requirements:

The program has been prepared taking into account YÖK and TEDU criteria as well as EFPA EuroPsy[1] criteria. The nature, distribution, duration and crediting of the courses in the program meet the EuroPsy criteria.

To graduate from this program

Having completed the Academic Writing and Research and Teaching Assistance training modules.

(a) A total of 48 credits, including 13 compulsory courses corresponding to a total of 39 credits and 3 elective courses corresponding to at least 9 credits;

(b) Successfully complete the seminar, preparation for the qualifying exam, qualification exam, internship, determination of the thesis topic, thesis proposal and thesis to collect at least 270 ECTS credits.

-Submitting the internship evaluation report (A comprehensive report has been prepared in which the client, session, experiences, self-evaluation, evaluation of internship activities and what has been accumulated are written down).

-Having at least 1 research article at the peer-review stage in any of the SSCI journals (must be a journal where the thesis will be allowed). This article may have been written with data from an individual study or thesis research. It is not possible to meet this criterion in an article written to enable one to take the doctoral qualification exam.

Successful or unsuccessful completion of the qualifying exam, internship and thesis study. The student is required to enroll in the thesis course during the semesters in which the thesis work is carried out.