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Humans have emotional responses to surrounding environmental changes and socio-ecological destruction in their lifeworld. Their deep sense of loss is exacerbated by these changes. Destructive environmental changes bring out catastrophic losses to culture, knowledge of life, livelihoods, generational knowledge, and mental and emotional well-being. For local inhabitants, the place and region constitute emotional geographies, intimate attachments, and a community-based sense of place. This paper is a case study on the emotional geographies of late capitalism, ecopsychology, and sociology of emotions in the context of geographies of ecological sorrows and farewell. This paper focuses on the environmental desolation of two tiny villages of Artvin province, in rural northeastern Anatolia, Zeytinlik (Sirya) and Oruçlu (Orcuk) that were drowned by the waters of the Deriner Dam in the Çoruh Valley. The research findings indicate that the destruction of nature and lifeworld has evoked tremendous expressions of sorrow and loss from the dislocated people living along the river. The research aims to open a debate on the negative effects of environmental change lived in the country that is not discussed in the mainstream discourse, through the individual and collective emotions experienced in the processes of witnessing the radical change of rural living spaces. The research uses an ethnographic method that allows us to extract people's discourses about their emotional experiences of certain places from books, documentaries, oral history, and literary materials that express their emotional affinity to the very same places. The findings of the research reveal that the destruction of nature and habitats causes intense expressions of sadness and loss for people living by the river. The study demonstrates that the losses of beloved lands produced by capitalist expansion also produce place-based emotional narratives of ecological loss, solastalgia, and grief. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Forgiveness has been studied since 1960s psychologically. In the beginning, forgiveness was studied in terms of pro-social behaviours but after the positive psychology approach it was examined in the context of human strengths and virtues. Forgiveness has been examined in psychology and its sub-departments like psychology of religion with the focus on the interrelation to personality, attachment, health, and religiosity etc. In this article forgiveness is investigated in the context of its relation with religiosity and life satisfaction. The main aim of the study is to delineate the role of religiosity on forgiveness and life satisfaction. Meanwhile, the relationship between forgiveness and demographic variables (gender and age), also investigated in this study. A further goal of this paper will be to describe the effect of forgiveness on life satisfaction. In order to find out the above mentioned goals Religiosity Scale, Interpersonal Forgiveness Scale and Life Satisfaction Scale were applied to the sample of 350 respondents. According to the findings there was no relationship between gender and main dependent variables (religiosity, forgiveness, and life satisfaction). Findings also indicated that religiosity has a positive effect on forgiveness and life satisfaction. The role of forgiveness was also positive on life satisfaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An increasing replication of studies find a correlation between religious belief and practice and mental and physical health and longevity. This paper discusses some of the implications of this research for the ways in which religion might understood psychologically. Most interpretations of this data focus on the presence of one or more mediating variables. This paper argues that the presence of these mediating factors helps us understand more precisely some of the ways in which religion actually does impact on human life and in what the psychological uniqueness of religion actually consists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Population data on clinical and demographic characteristics of children who are sexually abused in Turkey is very limited. This paper aims to investigate the demographic and abusement characteristics of sexually abused children and adolescents who were referred for forensic examination to our child and adolescent psychiatry outpatient clinic. Methods: All of the 135 children and adolescents who were sexually abused and examined on request by the legal offices for the last year at the Bakırköy Mental Health Hospital, child and adolescent psychiatry department were included in the study. All written material including court files were analyzed retrospectively. Demographic (age, gender) and abusement characteristics of victims (relation of victim and perpetrator, type and duration of abusement) were evaluated. Results: The girls experienced more sexual abusement than boys (female 80.7%, male 19.3%). In 80.0%, the victim knew the suspected perpetrator well or he was a family member. Adolescents were more often abused more than once compared to the younger children. The sexual abuse events were mostly fondling (24.4%) and penetration of the vagina (27.4%). The mostly used method was using force by perpetrators (51.1%), or deceiving (29.6%) during sexual abuse. Conclusion: Results suggest that girls experienced more sexual abuse than boys; adolescents were more often abused more than once compared to the younger children. It is important to educate all children and adolescents about sexual abusement and to make special centers for them to report the abusement and to get psychiatric support. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In many health conditions, stigma is receiving increasing attention. Public stigmatization toward mental illness can affect particularly the patients and family memberships to help seeking behavior and treatment. These stigmatized persons in the society are deprived of rights and benefits. In this paper, reasons and consequences of stigma associated with mental illness are reviewed and combat against mental illnesses originated stigma are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A lot of difficulties in providing mental health services had been faced in the past. Contemporary mental health models may be classified as community-based and institution-based. In the 1960s, most of the developed countries began to establish community-based mental health services, which are ideal for the patients' integration in the society. In our country, mental health services are given by eight mental health hospitals and psychiatry clinics in general hospitals and unfortunately, are still institution-based. This system may be summarized as inpatient care in the hospital during acute episodes and as outpatient services. The treatment process outside the hospital generally depends on the patient's initiative or on the responsibility of patient's family. Community-based treatment and rehabilitation options conducted by universities or state hospitals are very rare and only for limited number of patients. There is no systematic work at the moment. In 2009, the Ministry of Health began planning a community-based mental health system for the country in accordance with the National Mental Health Policy published in 2006 and ministerial conferences of the World Health Organization. In the context of this paper, the authors discussed the requirement of establishing community-mental health services within different extents and described the general characteristics of the planned community-mental health centers. In order to get a comprehensive mental health service, it is necessary to take into consideration not only the community-based units providing psychoeducation and rehabilitation, but also the half-way houses, sheltered homes and sheltered workplaces, which should be established. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]