Cyprus Turkish Journal of Psychiatry & Psychology Vol.3 Issue.3

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EDITORIAL / EDİTÖRDEN
Mehmet Çakıcı

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Abstract:

The negative and devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic continue around the world. The emergence of new variants against all vaccine efforts reveals that we are faced with the situation of continuing this epidemic even longer. In some countries, measures and vaccination studies are still insufficient. The world has now undergone a major change like before and after Covid-19. People’s lives have also changed under the influence of the Covid-19 Pandemic. Our habits, lifestyle and systems have been affected as well. This new world order created by Covid-19 has further increased the impact of mental illnesses. The Mental Disorder Pandemic, a second pandemic in the world, now exists. While humanity is struggling with mental illnesses, mental health professionals also have a great responsibility. Intense psychological symptoms such as anxiety, depression, PTSD, alcohol and substance addiction, anger, impulsivity, paranoia, death anxiety, obsessions with cleanliness, and suicidal thoughts appear to come to the fore in this process. Scientific research also seems to be getting harder under the influence of the pandemic. In this period when everything has turned into a virtual environment, face-to-face studies can be done mostly in hospitals and clinics these days. The Cyprus Turkish Journal of Psychiatry and Psychology continues to do its part to the scientific world. Despite all these difficulties, our journal is developing more and more with each passing day. We observe that the articles in our latest issues about the Covid 19 pandemic shed a serious light on science in this important period. We are also excited about the increase in the number of indexes that our journal participates in. Finally, we are happy to see that we have passed the investigation and been accepted in SCOPUS. We hope to see our journal on the SCOPUS main list soon. I would like to state that we are also in the Web of Science and ULAKBİM evaluation process. The new format we created during the year and the increase to 4 issues a year were other steps of our magazine. We continue to be followed by the Novel Academy Publication Standard (NAPS) during the evaluation, recommendation, accreditation, and certification processes to improve the quality of the journal. We believe in the future of the Journal in a structure where it will serve science and humanity at higher standards. I hope the new issue will be beneficial for everyone and thank you very much to the friends who contributed.

 

 

¹Professor, Near East University, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Department of Psychology, Lefkoşa, Cyprus, Orcid Id: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7043-183X

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