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Contact Info
e-mail : karanci@metu.edu.tr
tel : +90-312-210 3127
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A. Nuray Karanci, is a lecturer in the Psychology Department of the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey since 1980. She got her M.S in Clinical Psychology from Liverpool University, U.K and her PhD from Hull University U.K. Since 1993, she has been extensively involved in research on psychological consequences of earthquakes, disaster management and facilitating community participation in disaster management and preparing disaster preparedness guidelines and training of trainees programs. She has worked with earthquake survivors as a clinical psychologist and provided individual psychological services and group debriefing programs. Furthermore, she was responsible for capacity building for disaster mitigation and preparedness for emergency workers and the survivors of the 1999 Marmara Earthquake. She is one of the founding members of , METU, Disaster Research and Implementation Center and is currently the director of the center. Prof. Karancı has been involved in applied and basic research in disasters. She was a member of the Turkish National Earthquake Council and vice president of the International Natural Hazards Society. She has got numerous international and national publications related to her research interests.
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Publication Info
Karanci, A.N., Acarturk , C. (2005).Post-Traumatic Growth among Marmara Earthquake Survivor Involved in Disaster Preparedness as Volunteers. Traumatology, 11(4), 307-323.
Johnston, D. M., Karanci, A. N., Arikan, M., & Hopkins, D. C. (2006) . Residential retrofitting in Istanbul, Turkey: Social and economic considerations, EERI Conference, April, San Fransisco, U.S.A.
Karanci, N. A., Aksit, B. & Dirik, G. (2005). Impact of a community disaster awareness training program in Turkey: Does it influence hazard related cognitions and preparedness behaviours. Social Behavior and Personality , 33(3), 243-258.
Karanci, N. A., & Aksit, B. (2000). Building disaster resistant communities: Lessons learned from past earthquakes in Turkey and suggestions for the future. International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, 18(3), 403-416.
Karanci, N. A., Alkan, N., Aksit, B., Sucuoglu, H., & Balta, E. (1999). Gender differences in psychological distress, coping, social support and related variables following the 1995 Dinar (Turkey) earthquake. North American Journal of Psychology, 1(2), 189-204.
Karanci, N. A., & Aksit, B. (1999). Strengthening community participation in disaster management by strengthening governmental and non-governmental organisations and networks: A case study from Dinar and Bursa (Turkey). The Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 13(4), 35-39.
Rustemli, A., & Karanci, N. A. (1999). Correlates of earthquake cognitions and preparedness behaviour in victimised population. The Journal of Social Psychology, 139(1), 91-101.
Rustemli, A., & Karanci, N. A. (1996). Distress reactions and earthquake-related cognitions of parents and their adolescent children in a victimised population. Journal of Social Behaviour and Personality, 11(4), 767-780.
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