Behavioural sciences

The year 2023 has witnessed a striking trend in appointments to psychologists and psychiatrists in Türkiye, reflecting a collective response to challenging times, such as the devastating earthquakes witnessed last year and ongoing economic hardships.

In Bulgaria, a pressing concern looms over the scarcity of psychiatrists, with less than 500 specialists available to address the mental health needs of the population. Dr.

A Turkish mental health association will bring together its members and world-renowned psychologists in online training to help repair the psychosocial fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.

On June 17, Canadian psychologist Paul Bloom gave online training on "The Pleasure of Suffering and the Search for Meaning," the Mental Health Association said in a statement.

Many hospital beds are full. Waiting lists for outpatient treatment are bulging. And teens and adults seeking help for eating disorders are often finding it takes months to get an appointment.

The worries over coronavirus infection, the exhaustion from remote learning and the parents' fear of digital devices dependence of their children's are some of the biggest problems that psychologists from Varna have outlined since the beginning of the pandemic to this day.

Turkey has formed a second science board to tackle the social impacts of the measures taken in the fight against the coronavirus, the health minister has announced, informing that the new board will include experts in the field of psychology of religion, sociology of religion, statistics, sociology and psychology.

However, he reminded Kosovo Prime Minister that everything that results from mere force is even less worth, as was the case with Kosovo's seizure from Serbia by NATO aggression.

52% of Bulgarian teenagers aged 14-19 have been exposed to extreme content online, according to a nationally representative survey, part of a national "Find another way" campaign aimed at promoting critical thinking and civic engagement among young people. About 30% of them came across such content by accident, the survey shows.

A new bill to be tabled in Parliament in the coming days by the Citizens' Protection Ministry aims to tighten the regime for the transfer of prisoners to rural detention facilities, according to General Secretary for Anti-Crime Policy Sofia Nikolaou.
Nikolaou told Kathimerini that 200 inmates have escaped during transportation in the past four years.

The main opposition has rightly chosen not to proceed with a censure motion against the government. Its rejection of the Prespes deal is clear and will be presented during Thursday's debate.