Cyprus Turkish Journal of Psychiatry & Psychology Vol.7 Issue.4

Doi:10.35365/ctjpp.25.04

EDITORIAL / EDİTÖRDEN

Mehmet Çakıcı

Dear Readers,

As the Cyprus Turkish Journal of Psychiatry and Psychology, we are very proud to publish the December 2025 issue. We observe that the world is increasingly turning towards economic wars alongside wars and conflicts. All these crises are causing people to enter into even more difficult lives. We see that individuals are now being dragged into a fundamental struggle for survival. Especially, global inflation is becoming increasingly frightening for people. The most significant factor behind the increasing difficulty of this struggle is now technological development. Technology is becoming prominent not only in warfare but also in economic struggles. Robots, flying cars, drones, and more advanced war tools make the scale of destruction even more terrifying. In fact, all these stressful life events lead to people experiencing more severe mental health issues. Artificial intelligence, in particular, is now part of our daily lives and is used in every field. However, the issue of AI and robots replacing mental health professionals has started to be discussed. People now confide in robots. Nevertheless, mental health experts continue to lead with their life experiences, memories, intelligence, intuition, knowledge, and expertise. In the future, these AI-supported, ‘Natural Intelligence’ mental health professionals will continue to be much more effective. AI cannot replace a good mental health professional, but we, as experts, should increasingly utilise technology within our own field. The technology we develop in mental health will enable us to progress more rapidly. We will be able to create stronger scales and forms for human assessment in mental health and implement them more quickly through software. Just as drone technology has advanced significantly today, unmanned psychological tools will also find their place in the modern world. However, these technological tools will only serve as aids to professionals. Our journal will continue to track scientific developments in mental health. It remains at the top of the indices with the broadest network in psychiatry and psychology within its local region. In Scimago, it is the only journal representing Turkey and Cyprus in Clinical Psychology with a Q3 classification and ranks first. Among four journals in the Middle East region, it ranks second. Additionally, in psychiatry, it ranks sixth among ten Turkish journals. It is also ranked 234th out of 320 clinical psychology journals worldwide, according to Scimago. We hope our journal will also be included in SCOPUS, Web of Science, and TR Dizin. We thank everyone who contributed to the publication of the December 2025 issue of the Cyprus Turkish Journal of Psychiatry and Psychology.

¹Prof. Dr., Cyprus Health and Social Sciences University, Department of Psychology, Güzelyurt, TRN Cyprus, Orcid Id: 0000-0002-7043-183X

Address of correspondence/Yazışma adresi: Mehmet Çakıcı, Cyprus Health And Social Sciences University 99750, CHSSU, Kutlu Adali Blv, Morphou, TRN Cyprus, E-mail: editö[email protected]

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