Trauma and Resilience Laboratory
The Trauma and Resilience Laboratory takes an organizational part within the Department of Clinical Psychology and collaborates with IPAM. Dr. Burcu Uysal leads the laboratory, established during the 2021-2022 academic year, organizes various activities, and actively involves undergraduate and graduate students in academic studies.
Within the scope of these activities;
Academic meetings are organized by laboratory researchers, where professionals in trauma and psychological resilience share their knowledge and experience. In this context, they compare the understanding of trauma in different schools. In this way, it is aimed to increase our researchers' mastery of the field. In addition, diverse research methods that can be used in trauma, resilience and similar fields are also discussed within the scope of programs such as the Methodological Colloquium Series.
Apart from academic meetings, programs that appeal to the general audience are also organized, thus aiming to increase the trauma and resilience-related awareness of the general population. Considering the earthquake disaster on February 6 and the subsequent process, our researchers are organizing various informative events in trauma-related sub-areas.
Academic research projects are carried out within the laboratory in various sub-fields. Our working groups established and operating in this direction are as follows:
Graduate and undergraduate students of the Clinical Psychology Program join these study groups in line with the sub-field they focus on. They take an active role in research projects’ design and implementation stages of in interaction with other working groups. In all of these processes, which aimed to publish in internationally respected journals, Lab Director Dr. Burcu Uysal and other faculty members of the university support students.
Additionally, laboratory members actively participated in the Psychotherapy Center Project established in Adıyaman after the February 6 earthquake. As part of this project, they gained first-hand experience of trauma and related disorders.
In addition to all these academic studies and activities, the laboratory focuses on increasing the scope and quality of the events it organizes and plans national/international collaborations.