Abnormal psychology

Authorities are intensifying efforts to combat digital addiction by meeting with children who spend extended periods playing video games.

The initiative is part of a broader strategy to address various forms of addiction, Family and Social Services Minister Mahinur Özdemir Göktaş told daily Hürriyet on Aug. 31.

Research into suicidal speech dates back more than 30 years with studies identifying objective acoustic markers that can be used to differentiate various mental states & psychiatric disorders

Celebrating Athens Pride, the Hellenic American Union (hau.gr) is screening "Cured," an award-winning documentary by Bennett Singer and Patrick Sammon. Released in 2020, "Cured" chronicles the campaign that led to homosexuality being officially struck off the US register of mental disorders in 1973, a watershed moment in the gay rights movement.

A robot that uses artificial intelligence has been developed by a lab at Macedonia University in northern Greece to provide support to autistic children.

More than 200 newsrooms, journalists, medical associations, psychotherapists, NGOs and civic figures in Romania have signed a letter of protest against what it called hate speech promoted by Romania TV, concerning the death of the journalist Iulia Marin, 32, at the beginning of this week.

Approximately 114,000 children with autism have been affected by the Feb. 6 earthquakes, an autism early diagnosis and education foundation has stated.

Autistic children are affected four times more than other children by the anxiety, fear, feelings of uncertainty and changes in the living spaces caused by the quakes, said Aylin Sezgin, the head of TOHUM foundation.

No matter whether it is an armed conflict, a natural disaster or an epidemic. It is normal for any extreme situation that is beyond our control to create a sense of helplessness and vulnerability.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Oct. 1 that cultural racism is a "universal problem" that adversely affects all foreigners and migrants.

The Government took notice of the actualization of the General Policy Recommendation on preventing and combating antisemitism, issued by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) of the Council of Europe, and hails this demarche, according to deputy Alexandru Muraru, special representative of the Executive for the Promotion of Memory Policies, Combating Antisemitism and Xeno

Turkey's foreign minister on May 29 called for collective efforts against xenophobia, racism, and Islamophobia.

Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu's remarks came in a message commemorating the victims of the deadly 1993 attack on a Turkish family by far-right extremists in the German city of Solingen.