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Anormal Psikoloji kitabı, ruhsal bozukluklar alanında çalışan tüm profesyoneller, psikiyatristler, klinik psikologlar, psikologlar, psikolojik danışmanlar, hekimler, sosyal hizmet uzmanları, psikiyatri hemşireleri ve bu alanlarda öğrenci yetiştiren akademisyenler ile eğitim alan öğrenciler için temel bir başvuru kitabıdır.
2013 yılının Mayısı ayında yayımlanan DSM-5 ölçütlerine göre ruhsal bozukluklarla ilgili sunulan bilgilerin güncellemesinin de yapıldığı bu kitap, tüm dünyada pek çok üniversitenin psikiyatri ve psikoloji bölümlerinde ders kitabı olarak okutulmaktadır.
Kitabın her bölümünde, ilk olarak ruhsal bozukluklarla ilgili vakalar sunulmakta, daha sonra bozuklukların klinik tanıları yapılmakta ve DSM-IV-TR’den farklı olan DSM-5’te yapılan değişikliklere yer verilmektedir. Ayrıca, DSM-5’teki tanı ölçütleri, bozuklukların etiyolojisi ve epidemiyolojisi, bozukluklar üzerinde kalıtımın ve çevrenin etkileri, biyolojik ve sosyal ve kültürel etkiler, en güncel araştırmalardan elde edilen verilerle harmanlanarak sunulmaktadır. Ruhsal bozuklukların tedavisinde etkili olacak terapi yaklaşımları ve ilaçla yapılan tedaviler hakkında da bilgiler veren kitap, sahip olduğu zengin içeriği ile eşsiz bir kaynaktır.
Anormal Psikoloji kitabının; profesyoneller ve öğrenciler için önemli bir rehber olacağına, yardıma ihtiyaç duyan insanların sorunlarının çözümüne, ruhsal bozuklukların tanı ve tedavisinde önemli katkılar sağlayacağına inanıyoruz.

İnovasyonun On Tipi kitabı ile inovasyon yapmak isteyenlere reçete veriliyor. Adım adım ve yalın bir şekilde inovasyonun nasıl geliştirilebileceği konusunda önemli sırlar ortaya koyuluyor. Bu kitap, özellikle teknoloji odaklı inovasyon yapmak isteyenlere yapılan hataları da göstererek uygulama ortamı oluşturuyor. Yenilik ilkelerini verirken startupların ve hatta büyük kuruluşların anlamlı ve sürdürülebilir büyüme konusundaki donanımını artırıyor. 2000'den fazla başarılı yeniliğin ortaya çıkışında önemli içgörüler sağlıyor.
Bu kitabın anlatım tarzında özel bir algoritma uygulanarak anlamlı gruplar belirlendi. İnovasyon fırsatlarını belirlemek için firmaların iç ve dış büyüme parametreleri ve performans değerleri, rakiplerini de devreye alarak şekillendirildi. İnovasyon odaklı performansın artırılabilmesi, önemli değerlendirmeler yapılabilmesi için özel ve hazır yol haritaları sunuldu. Endüstriler için de inovasyon modellerini teşhis edip yeni bir anlayış ve yöntem geliştirme imkânı sunuluyor.
Çevrimsel araştırmanın altyapısını vererek farklı ve anlamlı değişim ve dönüşümü düşündürüp kalıcı ve kullanışlı yollar uygulatarak kitabın ne kadar değerli olduğunu kanıtlıyor. Eğer kurumunuzda anlamlı ve sürdürülebilir büyümeyi inovasyon odaklı gerçekleştirmek isterseniz yenilik ilkelerinin detaylı olarak anlatıldığı İnovasyonun On Tipi kitabını okuyun.
Bu kitabın yazarlarından Larry Keeley'in tecrübelerinden yararlanmak büyük bir fırsat. Kendisi BusinessWeek tarafından inovasyon alanındaki dünya görüşünü ve paradigmaları değiştiren, yedi yenilik gurusundan biri olarak seçilmiş olup Doblin firmasının kurucusudur. Diğer yazarlar ile birlikte inovasyonun tasarlanması ve sürdürülebilir kılınması konusunda dünya çapında pek çok girişimciyi, yöneticiyi, şirketleri ve startupları etkilemiştir.

In this study, how the innovative career counselling at the career offices of the different universities affects the university students in their career path was critically analysed by studying the different cases of the world universities in the US and in Turkey. The changing atmosphere in the higher education and job environment had critically changed the university students' decision-making processes. Today, the new career counselling approach is needed and called "talent management" in search of alternative perspectives (Capelli, 2008). As Berger and his friends (2011) mention that even though the current talent management literatüre has a too narrow and one-dimensional approach, the innovative career counselling offices develop talent management in order to decrease career conflicts by helping the students in their career decisions. İn the new talent management, the three dimensions are taken into considerations which are namely, majors, talents, and skills. The new perspectives in the career counselling are not only valuable for the development of the students in their fields in general but also essential for the success and reputation of the universities in different contexts. İn order to understand the real effects of innovative career counselling in decision making process of the university students while decreasing their conflicts, the data were collected by using a phenomenological analysis (Moustakas, 1994, p. 2). Hence, the original data were gathered from "naive" descriptions by asking open-ended questions and dialogue. The researcher described the experiences based on reflection and interpretation of the research participant's story. İn this study, the university students (n=48), who studied from seven different universities in the US and in Turkey had participated and answered semi structured interview and focus group questions. Since a few universities had been using talent management, there were some limitations in sampling. Additionally, ali the students were Turkish due to the limitation in reaching ali the students in the US. Furthermore, the results were finalised by processing Atlas.ti 6 in order to understand deeply the complex structure of the role of the career counselling offices on career decisions and career conflicts among the students. As a result, the data show that the new career counselling called in general as talent management had inevitably affected decision making process of the university students in many ways. Even though most (83%) students were happy to contact and to work with the career counselling offices since they had become good in adapting quickly in the changing conditions of the market. The large number (98%) clarified that they had conflicts in choosing right career path, and they tried to choose majors to earn money rather than learn. Hence, in this career decision process only (96%) agreed that career counseling
offices were very well structured in helping to integrate and penetrate into the market. The data showed that the career counselling offices in the US were significantly different than those in Turkey, particularly in understanding the needs and the talents of the students by giving different assessments and in developing the social network with the business world. Even though the students in Turkey had same kind of interests, skills, and talents, they had been living significant conflicts due to the lack of proper career counselling at their universities called "talent management." İn this context, ali the students who study in Turkey were not happy and satisfied and that mentioned that they were living deep career conflicts in the 3rd and 4th grade. However, those students, who studied in the best universities in the US where career-counseling offices were active and well organized, had better self-confidence. In one of these universities, new approach of the career counselling had been using innovatively by taking holisticaily the concept of the career conselling so that all the students clearly mentioned that they did not have negative experience or conflicts in their decisions. They had been involved in their career decision activities while they were studying at the universities by attending actively in workshops, counselling sessions, assessment process, and mentoring.  Berger, L A., & Berger, D. R. (Eds.). (2011).
The Talent Management Handbook: Creating a Sustainable Competitive Advantage by Selecting, Developing, and Promoting the Best People. McGraw-Hill. Cappelli, P. (2008). Talent management for the twenty-first century. harvard business review, 36(3), 74. Moustakas, C. (1994). Phenomenological research methods. SAGE Publications, Incorporated.
Key Words: Talent Management, Innovative Career Counselling, Career Counselling Offices, Career Conflicts, and Career Decisions

Bilgi ve inovasyon odaklı gelişimin ve rekabetin bir uzantısı olarak üniversite-sanayi işbirliğinin gittikçe arttığı ortamlarda yetenek yönetimi olarak bilinen kavram sadece artık insan kaynakları yönetiminde değil bizzat üniversitelerin kariyer merkezlerinin de üniversite birinci sınıftan itibaren lisans ve yüksek lisans seviyesinde yürüttüğü bir strateji olarak karşımıza çıkmaktadır. Green'in belirttiği üzere yetenek yönetimi; insan kaynağını işe alma, tutma, geliştirme ve sonrasında yeniden düzenleme (performans süreci) aşamasından oluşur (2006). Ancak asıl önemli olan yetenek yönetimi bireylerin işe alınmadan önce mesleklerini elde ettikleri üniversite yıllarında şekillenmektedir Hashim & Taib, 2012). Gelecekte potansiyel çalışan olarak öğrencilerin üniversite öncesinde hangi üniversiteyi seçeceklerini, hangi bölümde okuyacaklarını, okudukları bölümlerin hangi alanlarında ihtisaslaşacaklarını, kendi kişiliklerine göre hangi yetenek ve becerilerini geliştireceklerini, nerelerde staj ya da proje geliştirerek liderlik yapabileceklerini belirlemek üzere yetenek yönetiminin yapılması gerekmektedir. Bu sayede çok  daha emin olan öğrencilerin üniversite sonrasında seçecekleri mesleklerde ve iş alanlarında daha başarılı ve mutlu olmaları kaçınılmazdır (Guile, 2002). Bu nedenle yurtdışındaki iyi üniversitelerdeki örneklerle birlikte Türkiye'de kariyer merkezleri kurulmakta ve kurulan bu merkezler vasıtasıyla öğrencilerin yönlendirmeleri sağlanarak iş dünyası ile körü görevini oluşturmaktadır. Bu araştırma da stratejik yetenek yönetimi ve kariyer danışmanlığı uygulayan kariyer ofisinin uygulamayanlara göre olan etkisi araştırılmak istenmiştir.

This research explores the experiences of 18 gifted high school students career decision process which took 2 years 8 months. The students were from three different schools in İstanbul, and they had been taking career counseling in order to decide about their majors in their university years. The interactions with the students provided the data to answer the research questions, ''What are the difficulties, if any, to choose the right career path after the high school years, particularly the major that they want to study at the university?'' The data were gathered through in-depth interviews during the therapies including, the preparations of the documents for overseas applications which were recorded, transcribed verbatim, coded, and analyzed for patterns. The patterns became the prevalent themes for discussion in the findings and analysis.

The paper deals with the potential relationship between higher education and entrepreneurial activities. Universities and other higher education institutions could be seen as boosting entrepreneurship in the region. University graduates could be more often involved in starting up a new business and the university itself could commercialize their innovations by creating academic spin-off companies. The paper aims to examine the potential effect of higher education on the probability of starting a business as well as its further success. Based on the data for 40 EU and non-EU countries, retrieved from a Eurobarometer survey, we conducted probit and IV probit regressions. These have tested the assumed relationship between higher education and entrepreneurial activities. Our results strongly suggest that higher education can often be very beneficial for starting up a new business and this seems to be one of the factors determining the success of new businesses. Furthermore, those respon...

Problem Statement: The number of the students, who are taking massive open online courses(MOOCs), has markedly increased at the universities where the revenues are strategically financing the budget of the universities.
Research Questions: What the effects of the MOOCs were on funding the universities was studied in this study,while they were diminishing the quality of teaching and learning because the interaction decreased.
Purpose of the Study: This study examined strategically the effects of the MOOCs on funding and financing the universities. In order to understand critically the students’ spending on online courses, the quality of teaching and learning was questioned in this digital age. The interactions between teachers and students had also interactively overviewed.
Research Methods: In this study, the quantitative study had preferred taking into consideration the perceptions and the experiences of the students (654),the lecturers (34),the experts(22) of the MOOCs. Two different surveys related to the outcomes of the MOOCs and the effects of MOOCs on financing the two universities were used. The data were analyzed and clustered according to the participants’ profiles.
Findings: The study shows the students’ participations on MOOCs had increased while increasing the revenues from these MOOCs.The funding from the MOOCs was a new subject and the universities did not critically know how to invest for long-term sustainable goals.As the participants had mentioned most of the technical investments were not planned strategically to meet the needs.
Conclusions: In conclusion,the students were not happy about the content of these MOOCs,but they attended just having the certificates.As lecturers mentioned that the interaction between the students and teachers were very limited:however,they participated in the MOOCs in order to earn just money.The MOOCs quality is limited for all stakeholders who take all these MOOCs from the commercial perspective.

Problem Statement: Even though the statistics of women in higher education at STEM departments is high, their leadership in the departments is low because they are strongly discouraged in participation.
Research Questions: Hence, how the universities’ strategies can be changed to encourage the participation of women as leaders at STEM departments is systematically questioned by making the comparative study at different Turkish universities.
Purpose of the Study: The goals are to understand the three different universities’ experiences related to the women’s leadership in STEM Departments. Although the statistics of women in studying at STEM Departments is increasing, the inclusion of women as leaders in the higher education management is analyzed by studying the reasons and hidden agenda.
Research Methods: In the study, a phenomenological analysis is used by collecting data related to the experiences and perceptions of the women as well as men, directly and indirectly playing important roles at the universities. The ten subjects were defined by the participants related to the reasons and hidden agenda of discouraging women’s leadership at STEM Departments of the universities, particularly in engineering departments.
Findings: This NVivo analysis showed the women’s leadership at STEM Departments was low since as the participants mentioned the conservative policies affected the university administration, particularly those of the state universities. Even though the leaders who had actively responsible in STEM Departments did not see any discouragement for the women, most of them had declared they were not supported, assigned, or elected as leaders.
Conclusions: So, the findings show that the women’s leadership was not so strong as expected. More critically, their leadership statistics was decreasing comparing to past years though their number was increasing as students. Their career path had been changing in studying STEM, but not in their work environments, especially at the university management due to neo-conservative policies, which created segregation.

Problem Statement: As Woods (2015) has mentioned that the flip side of resiliency opens new dimension in innovation.In other words,how the problems are faced is increasing the success in innovation.
Research Questions: Hence, how the universities’ resiliency strategies are meeting the today’s innovation and technology based problems is critically questioned by making the comparative study in the US, Netherlands, and Turkey.
Purpose of the Study: This research has objectives in understanding the three different universities’ resiliency policies and strategies in order to increase innovation by solving short and long-term problems. While conducting these strategies, the budgets of the universities spent in solving the problems were analyzed in terms of outputs,successes,and achievements in their fields.
Research Methods: By using a phenomenological analysis,the data were collected through white paper documents related to the issue.The twelve different top issues related to the resiliency policies in increasing innovation were analysed different universities in the US, in Netherlands, and in Turkey.While taking into account the resiliency strategies,the budgets allocation policies of the universities were examined in NVivo 10.
Findings: This study clarifies how the resiliency strategies helped the universities to increase heterogeneous innovation activities in three different countries.The findings show failures in science and technology open new dimension in refreshing the ideas:therefore,some universities in the US and Netherlands changed their curricula and projects where they gave more importance to the failures,deficiencies,and distraction to improve agility and innovation.
Conclusions: Though these failures had caused expenses in the budgets,they turned to the research as strategic benefits,which flipped the system by changing higher education and financial situation from the ground up.Although the American and Dutch universities were conducting these strategies as university policies,in Turkish universities this system had been intensively experienced,but it did not take into account as policies.

The importance of the makers’ projects at the universities has significantly increases because they open new dimension in innovation and technological development. By involving in different makers’ projects the university students as well as the researchers and academics have participated in actively a wide variety of information, which accelerate them in creativity, innovation, patenting, and licensing.

In this study, the effects of makers’ projects on accelerating creativity, innovation, patenting, and licensing were critically studied. Furthermore, how empathy had been affected the participants in creating innovative products, services, and processes by involving actively in learning process. Since in the makers’ projects informal and non-formal learning had been much more effective than formal learning, the participants’ creativity and collaboration had markedly increased. In that way, the patenting and licensing oriented innovation had deeply and intensively improved comparing to other ecosystems, particularly those, which were related to formal learning in which individual competitions were extremely high.

In order to analyze the effects of the makers’ projects on accelerating creativity, innovation, patenting and licensing, the phenomenological interpretive analysis is used to investigate this new interactive ecosystem. Mainly the graduate level students (43), the experienced researchers (12) and academics (4) had attended from two state and three private universities in order to the study their behaviors and attitudes while taking into account their perception regarding to the effects of the makers’ projects environment. By using the phenomenological analysis, twenty-six research questions were answered in the semi-structured interactive interviews by the target participants, who were from engineering departments, medical school, and basic sciences. The collected data were analyzed in data analysis software-program NVivo 10.

As a result, the data showed clearly that most of the participants (81%), who were played important roles in makers’ projects, had significantly better results in creativity, innovation and technology oriented projects. Furthermore, most of the makers’ project had developed better cooperative and collaborative ecosystems for most of the participants (97%) who created easily new products and services which had the potential of patenting and licensing. More importantly, the results had clearly showed that, those who were more involved in the makers’ projects in a team they had much more empathy in understanding the needs of the industries and those who need help. As most of the participants (93%) agreed that the makers’ projects had significantly accelerate open innovation since informal and non-formal learning develops new values, particularly transparency, trustworthiness, ethics, empathy, self control team capabilities, responsibilities, accountability, and resiliency. Additionally, since they had realized the needs of the market and final users, their divergent thinking opened new dimensions in the makers’ projects in which most of the outcomes had seen as licensing patents. In conclusion, the makers’ projects helped the participants to change their behaviors and attitudes of the participants’ teamwork capacity in redesigning and testing innovative products and services due to the fact that they gained empathy and resiliency as new values.