Psychology Seminars

Psychology Seminars series continues with a seminar titled titled "Attachment and Parenting Behaviors: Cultural Implications and Findings from Turkey" by Prof. Dr. Nebi Sümer from METU. Join us on 4 December 2015 between 13:30-15:30 at SCOLA 326.

Title : Attachment and Parenting Behaviors: Cultural Implications and Findings from Turkey

 Date         : 4.12.2015 Friday
 Location   : SCOLA 326
 Time        : 13:30- 15:30 
 
P.S. Seminar will be in English.

Previous seminars:

6 November 2015-Sinem Olcay Kademoğlu
"Anne Baba Eğitimi İle Erken Dönem Çocuk Gelişimini Destekleme Projesi"

16 October 2015-Dr. Özlem Sertel Berk
"Health Psychology: Theory, Research, and Practice"

Özlem Sertel Berkworked as a clinical psychologist for five years at the Pain Clinic of Istanbul Unv. Faculty of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology. Then I started as a research assistant in İstanbul Unv. Department of Psychology. Currently, I give lectures in Health Psychology, Abnormal Psychology and Statistics in Psychology and coordinate M.A. and PhD programs in clinical health psychology in collaboration with the Pain Clinic and Eating Disorders Unit of Istanbul University, Faculty of Medicine.

1 October 2015-Dr. Özlem Bekar 
"Mentalization in Mothers' and Preschool Children's Narratives: Relation to
Children's Social-Emotional Functioning and Psychotherapy Processes in a High-risk Sample in New York City"

18 September 2015-Dr. Selenga Gürmen
"A talk on Interpersonal Acceptance-Rejection Theory (IPARTheory): Effects of marital distress on Turkish adolescents’ psychological adjustment: The role of perceived parental acceptance"

5 December 2014- Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fuat Balcı 
"Decisions about Time & Timing of Decisions: An Integrative Account"

28 November 2014-Assist. Prof. Dr. Aycan Kapucu
"The Effects of Specific Emotions on Memory" by Assist. Prof. Dr. Aycan Kapucu"

Aycan Kapucu received her B.A. from Bogazici University, and M.S. and Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the
University of Massachusetts Amherst. She taught several courses at Bogazici University and Izmir University of Economics, and worked as an assistant professor at Ozyegin University. She also studied as a post-doctoral research fellow, supported by TUBITAK, at Cognitive Processes Laboratory, Bogazici University. Her research interests include quantiative memory models and signal detection theory, and the effect of emotions and aging on memory and cognitive processes.

21 November 2014-Assoc. Prof. Dr. Elif Durgel
"Parenting in Acculturation Context: Turkish Immigrant, German Dutch Mothers’ Child-rearing Goals and Practices"

Elif Durgel obtained her BA from Hacettepe University and MA in developmental psychology from Koc University. She received her Ph.D. in cross-cultural developmental psychology from Tilburg University, Netherlands in 2011 and she taught cross-cultural psychology at the same department until 2013. Currently she is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology, Yasar University, Izmir. Elif’s main research interests are the role of cultural factors and family background characteristics in parenting beliefs and practices.

14 November 2014-Prof. Dr.Aysun Doğan
"Bullying Prevention & Intervention at Schools"

Aysun Doğan received her BSc in Psychology at Middle East Technical University, Ankara and PhD in applied developmental psychology from Claremont Graduate University, California. While in graduate school, she worked on several research projects examining the predictors of adolescents’ risk taking behaviors (e.g., teenage pregnancy, school dropout) and the effects of traumatic events on adolescents’ mental health. After completing her education she worked at the Center for Health Policy Research of University of California at Irvine where she managed projects focusing on Latinas coping with cervical cancer. She is currently an Associate Professor in the psychology department at Ege University, Izmir. Her research interests include adolescents’ risk-taking behaviors, immigration, bullying, victimization, friendships of emerging adults, and prevention programs.

2 September 2014-Dr. Gustavo Carlo
"Parental Socialization of Moral Values, Emotions, and Behaviors"

Dr. Carlo received his Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from Arizona State University in 1994. Currently, he is the Millsap Professor of Diversity and Multicultural Psychology at the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Missouri. He teaches courses in child development, prosocial and moral development, and culture. His primary area of interest is culture and moral development. His research focuses on the sociocultural, socialization, and personality processes associated with helping behaviors in children and adolescents.

1July 2014- M. Selenga Gürmen
"Effects of marital distress on Turkish adolescents’ psychological adjustment: The role of perceived parental acceptance"

M. Selenga Gürmen is currently a PhD candidate in Human Development Family Studies department with a concentration in Marriage and Family therapy at the University of Connecticut. In 2010, she graduated summa cum laude from Bogazici University with a BA in Psychology. She obtained her masters degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from University of Connecticut in 2012. Broadly, her research interests are co-parenting, divorce, extended family, high-conflict therapy, and multicultural training and therapy. Her doctoral dissertation, specifically, focuses on co-parenting among divorced individuals and explores the role of extended family kinship in these relationships.

9 May 2014 - Assist. Prof. Tilbe Göksun
"Early interactions between language and thought"


Tilbe Göksun is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Koc University, Istanbul. She obtained her BA in Psychology from Bogazici University and MA in Developmental Psychology from Koc University, Istanbul. She did her Postdoctoral work in the Department of Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her PhD in Developmental Psychology from Temple University and worked at Temple University Infant Lab. Her broad research areas are language development, the interface between language and cognitive development, and neuropsychology of language production.

8 April 2014-Zeynep Sunbay Bilgen (MSc)
"Mindfullness: What is already there"



Zeynep Sunbay Bilgen is a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) instructor trained at the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She received her BA in Psychology from Bogazici University in Turkey in 2007 and an MSc degree in Health Psychology from University of Southampton, England in 2009. She has research experience in healthcare settings where she worked with mild traumatic brain injury patients, cancer patients and patients with chronic gastrointestinal symptoms. In 2012, she was accepted to Clinical Psychology program for adult at Istanbul Bilgi University.


18 March 2014-Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ebru Şalcıoğlu
"Control-Focused Behavioral Treatment Of Mass Trauma Survivors: Theory, Practice And Evidence For Efficacy"




7 March 2014-Prof. Dr. Mehmet Eskin
"Suicidal behavior in youths: Developmental and cultural characteristics"

25February 2014-Assist. Prof. Dr. Sibel Halfon
"Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Process Research"

10 February 2014- Dr. Gizem Erdem
"Intervention Efforts Targeting at Risk Youth and Families: Promoting Capabilities and Resilience"

3 January 2014-Prof. Dr. Aylin Küntay
"Language and communication development during early years"


2013 seminars:

27 December 2013-Assist. Prof. Dr. Justin Marcus

"Culture, cultural values, and levels of culture: A holistic approach toward cross-cultural psychology in the service of social and developmental research"

20 December 2013-Assist. Prof. Dr. Jedediah Allen
“Over-imitation as the Learning of Social Realities"

13 December 2013-Assist. Prof. Dr. Alper Açık
“Developmental changes in natural viewing behavior: bottom-up and top-down differences between children, young adults and older adults"

11 December 2013-Assist. Prof. Dr. Saime Tek
“Language Development in Children with Autism"

6 December 2013- Assist. Prof. Dr. Hande Ilgaz
“Language Development in Guided Play Contexts"

22 November 2013-Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bilge Yağmurlu
“Institutional Rearing and Theory of Mind"

20 November 2013-Dr. Tuğba Özer Yıldız
The Effects of Cue Content and Cue Repetition on Retrieval from Autobiographical Memory”

13 November 2013-Assist. Prof. Dr. Gaye Soley
“Exploring the Developmental Origins of Social Divisions with Music”

8 November 2013-Assist. Prof. Dr. Gizem Arıkan
"The Role of Attachment in Traumatic Stress and Posttraumatic Growth"
1 November 2013- Assoc. Prof. Dr. Asiye Kumru
“Children's Cognitive, Emotional and Prosocial Development: A Longitudinal Study”

11 October 2013-Assist. Prof. Dr. Ayfer Dost
“Adolescent-Parent Value Discrepancies in Turkish Families: Links to Conflict, Cohesion, and Conflict Management”

27 September 2013-Assist. Prof. Dr. Nilüfer Kafesçioğlu
"Filial Theraphy with Children at Risk for Behavioral and Emotional Problems"

4 October 2013-Assist. Prof. Dr. Deniz Tahiroglu.
“Development of Social Understanding: Theory of Mind, Imaginary Companions, and Anthropomorphism”