World Mental Health Day Event Organized at Our University

As part of World Mental Health Day, an event was organized on Monday, October 12, at our university’s Prof. Dr. Uğur Oral Cultural Center in collaboration with our university’s Career Center, the Mersin Association of Entrepreneurial Businesspeople (Mersin GİAD), and the Department of Psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine.

Joining Forces for Awareness

During the opening segment of the program, Prof. Dr. İlhan Ege, Advisor to the University Rector and Director of the Career Center, and Adem Yükselgüngör, President of Mersin GİAD, each delivered a speech. Following this, Research Assistant Dr. Deniz Ünver from the Department of Psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine presented the Mental Health Day Declaration. The event also featured a video presentation titled “Inside a Psychiatry Clinic: The Professional Experience of Those Working in the Field of Mental Health and Mental Illness,” prepared by Dr. Ecem Sönmez and Dr. Cihat Şahin.

The Development of Psychiatry and Adolescents’ Anxieties Were Discussed

The program continued with presentations. Prof. Dr. Şenel Acar, a faculty member of the Department of Psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine, addressed the development of the field of psychiatry in his presentation titled “The Past and Present of Psychiatry in Turkey.”

Psychologist Jale Köksal delivered a presentation titled “Families’ Perspectives on Young People’s Propensity for Violence,” while psychologist and our university’s graduate student Gül Kuş assessed the anxieties experienced by students in her presentation titled “Perspectives on University Students’ Academic and Social Anxieties.”

The program, organized to raise awareness about mental health, concluded with the presentation of plaques to the speakers who contributed to the event and a group photo session.

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