Mental Health & Wellbeing in Türkiye

Explore different perspectives related to mental health including creativity, technology, policy, finance, culture, faith, law, and more.

More resources and background reading coming soon.

1) A formal study looking at the benefits of traditional dance in older women:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18068829/

2) And study looking at the benefits of Sufi music:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0965229921000054

3) Discussion of the effect of the 2023 Earthquake on children's mental health, with a note that  "The project offers access to art-based mental health care, including structured group sessions and individualised support for children. These sessions include art therapy, dance and movement therapy, and music therapy. Creative interventions provide children with the means to articulate experiences that may be challenging to verbalise.":

https://theirworld.org/news/mental-health-support-crucial-for-children-traumatised-by-turkey-earthquake/

4) Project Hope is a game-based learning initiative aimed at helping Syrian refugee children in Turkey:

https://jacobsfoundation.org/kjj18-projecthope/
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17450128.2017.1412551

5) Work by Simay Dinc Simay, co-founder of Recontact and game producer of award-winning Recontact: Istanbul mobile games series.

6) Discussion of the CATS (Culture, Arts, Technology, Science) camp: https://wnhub.io/news/education/item-19323