Cennet Şafak Öztürk, Emine Sevinç Sevi Tok, Füsun Gökkaya, Halime Şenay Güzel, Haluk Arkar, İnci Güçer, Oya Mortan Sevi, Zeynep Haseki, Zümrüt Gedik The book is a resource that deals with mental disorders in childhood with a DSM-5 focus and explains the general characteristics, etiology, epidemiology and risk factors of these disorders. In the book, cognitive behavioral therapies (CBT), which is an evidence-based treatment approach in childhood mental disorders, are outlined for each disorder. While describing clinically described childhood mental disorders and CBTs, it has been mentioned how CBTs for children differ from interventions applied to adults and how the child's family is included in the therapy process. In addition, the effectiveness of CBTs in various disorders has been examined based on important studies in the literature. In this respect, we hope that the book will be a basic reference for both clinicians and mental health students.

Aybeniz Civan Kahve, Belgin Üstün Güllü, Derya Gürcan Yıldırım, Duygu Cantekin, Ezgi Tuna, F. Elif Ergüney Okumuş, Gaye Z. Çenesiz, Gizem Sarısoy Aksüt, Halime Şenay Güzel, Itır Tarı Cömert, İlkiz Altınoğlu Dikmeer, Kerim Selvi, Muazzez Merve Avcıoğlu, Öznur Öncül Demir, Talat Demirsöz, Yeliz Şimşek Alphan According to DSM-5, Abnormal Psychology is a basic reference book that examines abnormal aspects of human behavior and psychological disorders, that can respond to the needs of professionals working in the field of mental health and students studying in psychology and psychological counseling and guidance departments. This book is one of the first original books written in Turkish in the field of abnormal psychology, based on the DSM-5 diagnostic categories and criteria, published in May 2013.
In the first chapters of the book, the definition of abnormal psychology and its historical development, current approaches to understanding abnormal psychological disorders, and diagnosis, evaluation and research methods are discussed. In the following sections, psychological disorders in the DSM-5 are discussed and information about the general appearance, diagnostic criteria and incidence of these disorders is presented. In addition, hereditary and environmental factors and current models related to the formation of psychological disorders are included. The chapters end with the methods used in the treatment of psychological disorders. In the last part, ethical and legal issues related to abnormal psychology are mentioned.
While the book is being prepared, comprehensive and up-to-date information has been compiled in each chapter, which includes current information and research findings on abnormal behavior and mental disorders, as well as important cultural issues and studies carried out in Turkey. This information presented in the book is supported by case examples and current discussions.
We believe that the Abnormal Psychology book will be an understandable and rich resource for experts and students working in the field, and will make an important contribution to the field of mental health in Turkey.

Alişan Burak Yaşar, Altan Eşsizoğlu, Anıl Gündüz, Arzu Erkan Yüce, Asena Yurtsever, E. Başak Usta Gündüz, Emre Konuk, Emre Sargın, Gonca Soygüt Pekak, Görkem Gökçelioğlu, K. Fatih Yavuz, Kadir Özdel, Levent Sütçigil, M. Hakan Türkçapar, Önder Kavakcı, Şahabettin Çetin, Şenel Karaman, Zeynep Zat Psychotherapies have come a long way since Freud in approaching psychological problems. Psychoanalysis was objectively the first sign of a serious revolutionary development. Eyes were on him for a long time, and he played a role that extended beyond himself, affecting other areas. Life as a dynamic process was pushing the boundaries of existing theory, its concepts and method, and different theorists came up with various approaches to psychodynamic therapies. Other approaches that are functional, useful for different needs and suitable for both the complexity and simplicity of the human have started to impose themselves. At this point, the dawn of new developments was on the horizon. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and its branches, which have matured with the meeting of behavioral and cognitive approaches, have started to be grasped by experts working in the field since the 1990s in our country. It has been proven by experimental studies that speech, words, metaphors, and thought, based on a theory and scientific method, have functions that affect the brain in the process of looking at issues, behavior and decision-making in a way similar to the chemical molecules in drugs. Acceptance and Determination Therapy was a new stop on the way, in terms of inviting people to take action and offering methods to overcome obstacles, in the emergence of certain inner lives that prevent us from living a meaningful and rich life. Schema Therapy, which reveals the basic structures of recurring difficulties in people's lives and intervenes with these complaints with experiential techniques, and Metacognitive Therapy, which intervenes by focusing on the effect of thoughts about thoughts on chronicling the problems, were again the other important stages of this journey. In addition to all these, EMDR Therapy, which works with memories to reduce or eliminate the psychological effects of traumas, that is, negative experiences and psychological threats, has emerged as another psychotherapy method that is frequently used today and its effects have been scientifically proven.
This book, which deals with today's frequently used, scientifically proven and high-evidence psychotherapy methods; Beyond giving information about contemporary methods and how they work, it is also worth reading as a comparative psychology history. In this respect, it is a work that has a rich content and is easy to read, but also very in-depth, not only for experts but also for those who are curious about current developments in the world of psychology.
Emrah Maraso
Science and Utopia Editor-in-Chief

Hatice Demirbaş Psychopathology and Crime is a book that will contribute to the field of forensic psychology arising from the relationship established between law and psychology in order to apply the knowledge and principles of general psychology to legal issues and problems. Although forensic psychology is a rapidly developing field in recent years, the number of books written in this field is limited. Psychopathology and Crime is one of the resources that will remove this limitation.
In the book, the relationship between mental disorders and crime; it has been conveyed in different dimensions as a guide to forensic psychologists, psychiatrists, experts working in the psychosocial services in prisons and lawmakers, who are experts in the judicial system. Various mental disorders; schizophrenia, mood disorders, alcohol use disorders (alcohol/substance addiction), mental retardation, personality disorders, dementia, epilepsy and old age are discussed in the context of crime.
This book; it is a new Turkish resource that can be consulted whenever there are topics such as the prevalence of mental disorders in criminals, their defining features, the types of crimes they have committed, their criminal responsibilities, treatments, and the precautions to be taken.