PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE

Our Mission:

We provide free online psychological support for people who experienced traumatic life events and need mental health support all around the world.

Our Specialist:

The Psychological Development Institute is supported by mental health / medical professionals who are experts in their fields (psychiatrist, psychologist, psychological counselor, neurologist) and technical professionals.

What is PDIN?

Founded in 2020 by a group of volunteer Psychiatrists, Psychologists and Psychological Counselors; It is a platform that aims to provide free counseling and share information over the internet to people who have any type of psychological problem, but not limited to, problems related to traumas such as migration, torture and war. Scientific, ethical values, being unbiased, and confidentiality are among our important values.

On the other hand, the site is open to the contributions and participation of all health professionals who want to contribute voluntarily. We would like to point out that even answering a question of a person once a month will be a valuable contribution. The necessary information for those who want to participate is available on the link on the home page.

Services

Through a form on the site, the questions are directed to the appropriate specialists, and it is aimed to produce scientific answers that are tailor-made, within the framework of confidentiality, to provide professional guidance for the solution of problems, and to provide accurate and useful information.

There are links in the site where authors’ publications can be read and general information can be obtained. However, it is not intended to include detailed descriptions of all diseases.

Videos with general content or prepared by our specialists through our You Tube channels simultaneously; It will also be shared on our Twitter and Instagram accounts.

New scientific knowledge and solutions to common problems will always be evaluated.

Training activities and publications are planned for professionals.

Video sessions for diagnosis-support-treatment are at the planning stage when necessary and possible.

General

We believe that it is important both to get ideas from a specialist and to exchange information free of charge. Thanks to this voluntary formation, we hope to help some people who have difficulties in accessing psychological help services. For this purpose, we aim to start broadcasting in different languages, to improve our site by following ethical rules and to increase the services provided. The services of our site will be performed in accordance with the Guidelines for the Practice of Telepsychology (apa.org).

It is much more important to be able to get service in psychological/mental problems in a native or fluent language than other health branches. Although these problems and diseases are extremely common, having different causes and treatment options such as Biological, Psychological and Social, the involvement of many different professions in these processes, having the time and cost limitations in terms of treatment creates difficulties for many people to reach the treatment. This challenge is much more pronounced for disadvantaged community groups. Different health systems in different countries, long appointment times are also another factor that forces people.

This and many other factors have resulted in the fact that the internet, which has become the basic source of information for people, has become an important area for health services, and this requirement has become more evident with the pandemic process. In this context, many basic problems arise. People who are unable to access health services try to investigate their problems on the internet, reaching out to many wrong information. General suggestions and methods can be beneficial for everyone if used properly, but each individual’s problem is unique and needs to be evaluated individually. On the Internet, people are exposed to many unscientific suggestions. Third, one may have the illusion that he/she can handle all of his problems on his own, fear that he is experiencing a much more serious problem than he has, or on the contrary, an important problem. Many problems that remain unsolved and cannot be intervened in time may lead to other problems in the future.

We welcome all your comments, feedbacks and new ideas. We wish everyone health, well-being, and happiness all the time.

On behalf of the Psychological Development Institute team…

20.06.2020

Assoc. Prof. Adem Balikci

Psychiatrist

PDIN Director

Privacy Policy for PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE

At PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE, accessible from https://pdinsupport.org/, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE and how we use it.

If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.

This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

Information we collect

The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.

If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.

When you register for an Account, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, company name, address, email address, and telephone number.

How we use your information

We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:

Provide, operate, and maintain our website

Improve, personalize, and expand our website

Understand and analyze how you use our website

Develop new products, services, features, and functionality

Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes

Send you emails

Find and prevent fraud

Log Files

PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

Cookies and Web Beacons

Like any other website, PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.

For more general information on cookies, please read “What Are Cookies” from Cookie Consent.

Advertising Partners Privacy Policies

You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE.

Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE, which are sent directly to users’ browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Note that PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

Third Party Privacy Policies

PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.

CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)

Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:

Request that a business that collects a consumer’s personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.

Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.

Request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data, not sell the consumer’s personal data.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

GDPR Data Protection Rights

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

Children’s Information

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

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