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Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) delivers guided self-help (GSH) interventions in the United Kingdom (UK). A minority service-user group for whom we know little of their engagement with GSH are Turkish-speaking users. The study aimed to better understand Turkish-speaking service-users experience of a GSH intervention in an IAPT service and identify possible service improvements. A discovery interview method facilitated service-users to describe their experience of GSH. Transcripts were analysed thematically. Excerpts of service-user narratives and thematic commonalities across interviews were disseminated in clinical teams and informed service improvements. Participant distress was expressed through somatic complaints, a high level of confusion and inactivity. Engagement with GSH was affected by ambivalent help-seeking and sense of limited self-efficacy. Service improvements aimed to address a widespread sense of confusion and anxiety. Listening to service-user experience provides opportunities for mending communication gaps between services and ethnic minority service-users.

The purpose of this research is to examine achievement goal orientations of secondary school students and their metacognitive awareness. Totally 1000 students (520 females and 480 males) who were receiving education at 6 th , 7 th and 8 th grades in 7 elementary schools at the centre of Bingöl province in the 2011-2012 educational year participated in the present study. The data were collected using Metacognitive Awareness Inventory and Achievement Goal Orientations Scale. SPSS-16.0 was used to analyze the research data. Independent Samples t-test, One-way Analysis of Variance, Dunnet C were carried out and Pearson Correlation Coefficient was calculated in the analysis of the data. At the end of the study, it was found that metacognitive awareness of the secondary school students differed across grade levels and gender, and achievement goal orientations of students differed across to grade levels. In addition, there was a significant correlation between metacognitive awareness and achievement goal orientations.

The national and international studies for the conservation of the city are carried out in Turkey has many cities with rich historical and cultural values. Especially after 1950 with the increase in the destruction of historical city textures as a result of the rapid population growth and unplanned urbanization, the conservation of immovable antiquities has come to the fore and various legal regulations have been made. Conservation efforts continue today, and rehabilitation practices are continued in historical regions. It is of great importance to carry out conservation activities within the framework of sustainability in the historical cities, which contain the traces of various civilizations. Sivrihisar city, which has a deep-rooted history and preserved its traditional texture, was chosen as the study area. The method of the study consists of 5 stages as determination of the problem, literature review, on-site observation and examination, evaluation, results and recommendations.Although Sivrihisar lost its importance in the past, today it has started to gain value again with its tourism potential. Planning studies have the quality to ensure theconservation of Sivrihisar historical city texture. Restoration, facade renovation and street improvement works have gained speed in Sivrihisar recently. These are important studies for the future of Sivrihisar. However, it is clear that uncontrolled tourism will have negative effects on the historical urban texture. The problem of the study is the presence of buildings in the historical city center that need conservation and not to be conserved against tourism. In this context, evaluating the planning studies by considering the old and new urban texture and proposing solutions to the problems constitute the aim of the study.The carrying capacity of Sivrihisar should be taken into consideration in order not to be adversely affected by the excessive tourist density. Tourism in Sivrihisar should be handled within the framework of sustainability principles. By applying policies such as conservation, rehabilitation and renewal, the continuity of the worn out historical texture should be ensured.

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