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Biography
Dr. Defne Yılmaz graduated from Psychological Counselling and Guidance program of Hacettepe University, Turkey in 1994. She completed Master of Education at Primary Teacher Education Program of University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. in 1998 with a dissertation on the emotional development of gifted children at educational settings. She got her Ph.D. from Hacettepe University in 2004 with a thesis on the comparison of an anger management program and a group counselling for adolescents.
Her research interest and publications are mainly on
counselling gifted and lifelong development of gifted, life skills and early
prevention studies, stress and trauma counselling and addiction counselling.
The first edition of her book “Üstün
Yetenekliler İçin Psikolojik Danışma ve Rehberlik Uygulamaları: Gereksinimler,
Sorunlar ve Müdahaleler” (Counselling and Guidance for Gifted: Needs, Issues
and Interventions) was published in 2015.
She had been a visiting scholar at the North Carolina State University, College of Education, Counselor Education and Supervision Pogram for a year in 2012. She also joined several ERASMUS projects and faculty exchange programs.
She has been teaching at universities in Turkey
since 1995. She
worked as a university research assistant and also as a counselling center
coordinator of a private college in Ankara during her studies. She worked for the UNICEF Turkey Earthquake
Recovery Psychosocial and Educational Projects on psychological support
services on trauma, crisis, and classroom based interventions in 1999-2000. She
established the Research Center on Gifted and Talented at COMU in 2019. She
also worked as a psychological counsellor at Antalya State Conservatoire of Akdeniz University
between 2005-2010.
She
has taught on counselling
gifted, trauma and crisis counselling, addiction counselling, principles and
techniques of psychological counselling, counselling practicum, personality and
adjustment, ethical issues in counselling, behaviour disorders, psychological
health and adjustment disorders in children, group counselling with children,
sexual health education.
She is a member of Turkish Psychological Counselling
and Guidance Association and Stress, Trauma, Anxiety and Resilience Society
(STAR).
She
speaks English fluently, and French and Italian at intermediate level.
Contact
- defney@comu.edu.tr
- Web Page
- https://avesis.comu.edu.tr/defney
- Office Phone
- +90 286 217 4763 Extension: 31168
- Fax Phone
- +90 286 212 0751
- Office
- B1 Blok, Kat.2, Ofis No:4
- Address
- Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Anafartalar Yerleşkesi 2. kat, Ofis:B1/4 Çanakkale