OBJECTIVES:
AİLEMER was established within Üsküdar University on December 20, 2012 with the regulation of the Official Gazette no: 28503 on December 20, 2012. The Center aims to carry out applied and academic studies to strengthen the family structure and to protect its welfare and integrity in parallel with the common goals and studies of the relevant units of the Ministry of Family and Social Policies, the Ministry of National Education and the Ministry of Health in line with national and social policies.
For this purpose, it approaches family problems from a solution-oriented framework within the framework of a holistic, partnership, interdisciplinary and healthy model.
- HOLISTIC APPROACH To evaluate the family institution with a holistic approach around the social, cultural and environmental factors in which it exists.
- PARTNERSHIP APPROACH: Establishing partnerships with governmental and non-governmental organizations, universities, municipalities, maternal and child health centers, schools, guidance and research centers, and police departments, and transforming them into social and cultural capital, the greatest capital of the global world.
- INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH: Working in academic, clinical and social collaboration with nurses, family physicians, psychiatrists, sociologists, social workers and child development specialists, psychological counselors and law enforcement officers.
- HEALTH-CENTERED APPROACH: Approaching family problems from a perspective of health and well-being rather than pathology, and working to protect and strengthen changing family dynamics (values education; sacrifice, loyalty, trust, empathy, unrequited love, etc.).
FIELDS OF ACTIVITY
Demographic Studies :
Our protective approaches to family problems should be built on data and information that define the demographic structure of the family, which guides social policies. For this purpose, demographic studies aim to
- Establishing statistical databases and obtaining information to guide family policies
- To determine the current and priority needs of the changing and transforming "Turkish Family Structure" and to carry out preventive studies in the light of theoretical and clinical knowledge
- To carry out preventive studies against the risk factors that this sociocultural mobility brings to the marriage process and family life quality by examining the physical conditions, psychological and social living conditions of metropolitan cities and regions where migration is intense with field studies that determine the current situation of the family and define its demographic structure.
- To conduct descriptive, correlational, factorial research on the effects of factors that increase stress in the family (e.g. financial problems, migration) on individual development and marital stages; to offer proposals and methods to protect against divorce and improve the quality of family life.
Cultural Studies:
It is important to ensure that family protective measures are sensitive to cultural values by studying the protective role of our collectivist cultural structure against family problems through interdisciplinary, qualitative research. It is necessary to study the cultural dynamics of the Turkish family structure through contextual research. In this direction, cultural activities aim to;
- Considering the risk factors of early marriages, providing social and psychological support to these families through educational programs
- To carry out protective activities to prevent violence in the family by raising awareness against traditional discourses and beliefs that encourage violence, which is a cyclical process
- Utilizing the protective role of respected male role models in society against sexual abuse, harassment and violence against women in general to prevent domestic violence
- To teach effective communication techniques to protect against communication problems in marriage; to encourage effective emotional sharing in the family with emotional intelligence studies such as love language
- To gain protective communication skills against gender identity and role differences by providing awareness-raising and informative programs against gender differences in communication
- To study the effects of the global process and media on family structure
- To evaluate the sociocultural validity of Couple Therapies and Family Counseling approaches for our society and to conduct academic studies on the issues identified.
Education Studies:
- Family institution with a holistic approach within the framework of social, cultural and environmental factors:
- To support the planning and implementation of Family Counseling Certificate Programs within Üsküdar University,
- To provide pre-marriage family trainings to candidates who intend to start a family and to provide guidance, training and support services to those who have problems within the family institution,
- To provide training programs on functional problems in the family system; loss of quality of family life; family life cycle problems; family roles and responsibilities,
- Providing guidance, training and support services for individuals and couples who have decided to end the family institution, are divorced or are going through a separation-divorce process.
- Strengthening the family structure, protecting its welfare and integrity:
- Conducting courses, seminars and thesis studies at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels that address the issues within the social, cultural, economic, legal and political framework.
- Conducting research, training, examination, activity and project studies.
- Organizing meetings such as congresses, conferences, workshops, courses and seminars.
- Conducting awareness-raising activities on family-related issues for the society.
- Creating an archive of domestic and foreign sources on the family and promoting, publishing and sponsoring various publications are among the educational activities carried out by AİLEMER.
Professional and Ethical Issues:
- Contributing to the structuring of professional standards of programs that shape social policies such as Family Counseling Certificate Programs.
- Supporting the opening and execution of master's and doctoral programs in order to train projects, academic research and clinical practices that strengthen the Turkish Family Structure and protect its welfare and integrity, and the staff who develop these studies.
To train qualified family counselors and support guidance and education services with protective measures through theoretical and practical services; is the scope of professional and ethical studies.