Event Detail
Mental Health and Human Rights over the documentary film STOREHOUSE: Life in Mental Hospital.
Place : Kule (Tower) 2. Floor
Date : 14.11.2018
Time : 17:30 – 20:30
Moderator : Sevgi Çiçek Hilton (Psychologist, RUSİHAK)
Speakers : Can Feyzioğlu (Sociologist, RUSİHAK), Fikret Bektaş (Self Advocate), Begüm Dağ (Community Based Mental Health Center, Psychiatric Nurse)
Language: Turkish
Content:
Filming of STOREHOUSE is completed by civil observation studies helped by RUHİSAK with the permission of T.C Ministry of Health and with funding of European Union. The movie includes daily lives, interviews with patience and hospital staff, thoughts of experts who evaluate this course in closed psychiatry institutions in Adana, Elazığ, Manisa, Samsun and İstanbul.
The main target in the interview, which will be held after the movie screening, is thinking about topics such as approach to mental health issues in society, human rights in mental health and independent life. We hope it will be an interesting session with the AccessAbility portraits, with the participation of people who go through same experiences, and people who serves in this particular area.
Sevgi Çiçek Hilton
Graduated from I.U, Department of Psychology. Co-coordinating AccessAbility (Erişiyorsam Varım) project. Her work focuses on mental health, human rights and sexual health. Working for RUSIHAK (Human Rights in Mental Health Initiative), Sevgi has managed various EU-funded projects for people with disability and human rights issues. In 2015, the Swedish Institute as an expert in the field invited her to Stockholm. Currently, she is working for the ongoing AccessAbility project on behalf of RUSIHAK, together with the Swedish Consulate, Swedish Institute and ENGKAD. In 2015, in conjunction with Independent Living (ILNET), another RUSIHAK project, she attended an EU Parliament sitting in Brussels for disabled people, the first of its kind. In the field of sexual health, she has been working with the Turkish Family Health and Planning Foundation (TAPV) since 2013, giving lessons and seminars at Universities (e.g., Sabancı) and private high schools (Robert College, Üsküdar American, Koç, etc.), mainly on sexual health, safe sex and body and gender issues for youth. She has also translated the academic work Developing Biotechnologies.
Begüm Dağ
Psychiatric Nurse. Nişantaşı Community Based Mental Health Centre
Born in Istanbul, in 1980, Begum attended the Nuri Akın High School and then the nursing college at Trakya University, Kırklareli, where she finished top of her year. She did her MSc in Psychiatric Nursing at Istanbul University. As a nurse, she first worked in emergency departments and also with diabetics. Begum has been a pyschiatric nurse at Nişantaşı CBMH Centre (TRSM) since 2013. Her roles and duties involve counselling outpatients, art therapy, medication issues, family meetings and home visits. She works against discrimination and the labelling of patients diagnosed with mental health problems.Currently she is doing her PhD in psychiatric nursing at Uskudar University. She has had various papers published in the field.
Fikret Bektaş
Self advocate
Fikret Bektaş graduated in Photography from Mimar Sinan Fine Art University. His is one of the 22 portraits of AccessAbility (Erişiyorsam Varım) exhibition. After being diagnosed with mental health issues, he lived in Hope House (Umut Evi) for a period. Fikret works as a photographer and a cameraman and also in music. He has worked with disability organisations defending the rights of people with disabilities. As a self advocate, he shares his experiences and his ideas at universities and NGOs. Fikret recently joined the Mental Health Legislation Committee.
Can Feyzioğlu
Born in Istanbul, in 1977, Can Feyzioglu studied sociology at Istanbul Bilgi University. Since 2009, together with RUSIHAK (Human Rights in Mental Health Initiative), with whom he started his civil society work, Can has participated in the following projects: ‘Promoting persons with mental health problems to take part in mental health institution decision-making processes’, ‘Supporting and strengthening self-help groups’ and ‘Monitoring psychiatric hospitals by civil society’. He has gained certificates in Civil Society at Bilgi University and in Disability Rights and Law in Ireland and Hungary. In addition to the above-mentioned countries, Can has taken field trips to Italy, Bulgaria and Holland to observe their mental healthcare services. He began studying human rights law at Bilgi University in 2015, where he is currently working on his thesis ‘Guardianship for the disabled in mental health’. As well as his civil society activism, Can is a professional translator.