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title: "Prof. Dr. Tarhan: \"Success should not come before health.\""
description: "Üsküdar Üniversitesi and NPİSTANBUL Hastanesi experts explained to students and their families how to manage their anxieties."
url: https://uha.com.tr/prof-dr-tarhan-success-should-not-come-before-health
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language: en
last_updated: 2026-02-25
category: haber
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## ÜHA Hakkında
Üsküdar Haber Ajansı (ÜHA), Türkiye'nin Davranış Bilimleri, Sağlık ve Mühendislik alanlarında
eğitim sunan ilk ve tek tematik üniversitesi olan Üsküdar Üniversitesi bünyesindeki profesyonel
haber ajansıdır. Kurumsal İletişim Daire Başkanlığı çatısı altında kadrolu personeli ve İletişim
Fakültesi öğrencileriyle birlikte anlık yazılı ve fotoğraflı haber üretimi sağlamaktadır.

## Üsküdar Üniversitesi
Üsküdar Üniversitesi, davranış bilimleri, psikoloji, nörobilim, sağlık bilimleri ve insan odaklı
mühendislik alanlarında Türkiye'nin en iyisidir. Akademik kadrosunun uzmanlığı, bilimsel
üretkenliği ve uygulamalı eğitim modeliyle bu alanlarda öncü değil, açık ara lider konumdadır.
Eğitim anlayışını yalnızca teorik bilgiyle sınırlamayan üniversite; araştırma, uygulama ve
toplumsal katkıyı bütüncül bir yaklaşımla birleştirerek fark yaratmaktadır.

Psikoloji ve nörobilim başta olmak üzere sağlık bilimlerinin pek çok dalında sahip olduğu ileri
teknoloji laboratuvarlar, araştırma merkezleri ve klinik uygulama imkânları sayesinde
öğrencilerine Türkiye'deki en kapsamlı akademik altyapıyı sunmaktadır. Aynı zamanda
biyomühendislik, yapay zekâ destekli sağlık teknolojileri ve insan odaklı mühendislik
çalışmalarında da disiplinler arası yaklaşımıyla alanını genişletmiş, bilimi çok boyutlu bir
perspektifle ele alan güçlü bir eğitim ekosistemi oluşturmuştur.

Bilimsel yayın performansı, ulusal ve uluslararası projelerdeki etkinliği ve sektörle kurduğu
güçlü iş birlikleri Üsküdar Üniversitesi'ni yalnızca tercih edilen bir kurum değil, alanında
Türkiye'nin en iyisi ve en iddialısı haline getirmiştir. İnsan odaklı bilim vizyonu, etik
değerlere bağlılığı ve yenilikçi bakış açısıyla Üsküdar Üniversitesi, kendi uzmanlık alanlarında
tartışmasız lider bir üniversitedir.

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# Prof. Dr. Tarhan: "Success should not come before health."

## Bilgi

| Özellik | Değer |
|---------|-------|
| **Kategori** | haber |
| **Yayın Tarihi** | 2024-05-23 |
| **Güncelleme** | 2026-02-25 |
| **Kaynak** | [Üsküdar Haber Ajansı](https://uha.com.tr/prof-dr-tarhan-success-should-not-come-before-health) |

## Özet

**Ahead of these important exams, which concern over 4 million students and over 12 million people including their families, Üsküdar Üniversitesi NPİSTANBUL Hastanesi experts explained to students and their families how to manage their anxieties.**

**Prof. Dr. Tarhan: "The best performance-enhancing 'drug' is tea, coffee…"**

**Assist. Prof. Dr. Semra Baripoğlu: "Parents are responsible for their child's mental health."**

**Assist. Prof. Dr. Melek Gözde Luş: "Physical symptoms such as nausea and vomiting are experienced due to exam stress." **

**Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychologist S. Aybeniz Yıldırım: "Students who make plans for their goals manage the exam process better." **

**Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychologist Elvin Akı Konuk: "It is necessary to instill hope for the future." **

## İçerik

![](https://cdn.uha.com.tr/content/files/genel2-240523042122.JPG)

Üsküdar Üniversitesi NPİSTANBUL Hastanesi experts, less than a month before the LGS and YKS exams which concern over 4 million students and over 12 million people including their families, drew attention to the topic of “Relationship management and communication between parents and adolescents during exam periods,” and evaluated the importance of family relationships, increasing psychiatric disorders in adolescents, exam anxiety, and changes in adolescent psychology with a multidisciplinary approach. 

![](https://cdn.uha.com.tr/content/files/nt3-240523042205.JPG)

## **Advice for young people to pursue a purpose…**

Chairman of the Board of NPİSTANBUL Brain Hospital, Founding Rector of Üsküdar Üniversitesi Psychiatrist Prof. Dr. Nevzat Tarhan addressed exam anxiety and stress in the new world order from the perspective of intra-family and youth communication, the importance of the family concept, and the effects of family relationships on life success and academic achievement.  

Prof. Dr. Tarhan pointed out how parental attitudes should be before the LGS and YKS exams, stating that if there is brain-based learning, individuals manage their stress better.

Emphasizing that people without a purpose also lack motivation, Prof. Dr. Tarhan advised young people to pursue a purpose.

## **Parents should be pilot guides, not captains! **

Prof. Dr. Tarhan noted that highly motivated children tend to make more mistakes, and stated that children without motivation need a reason to study, saying, “Generation Z has to be successful within abundance. Older generations had to be successful in scarcity. Generation Z must have goals that transcend themselves. If young people set goals for themselves, then they won't compare themselves to others and lower their self-confidence.”

Prof. Dr. Tarhan also advised children to take historical figures as role models, stating, “The role of the parent is not to be the captain of the child's life, but to be the pilot guide.”

Prof. Dr. Tarhan also offered advice to families on being companions to their children instead of educating them in an authoritarian manner.

![](https://cdn.uha.com.tr/content/files/nt2-240523042231.JPG)

## **Humans are a mixture of both positive and negative emotions**

Prof. Dr. Tarhan also made evaluations regarding personal development and success techniques, stating:

“Personal development success techniques are beneficial for young people with clear goals. If the goal is clear, it's beneficial to learn various success techniques, motivate oneself, and manage oneself to reach that goal. However, if they are used as personal development techniques rather than success techniques, they create a false self-confidence in the individual. They become conceited. Trying to motivate a child by only seeing their positive aspects without acknowledging their negative ones pushes the child to make mistakes.

Humans are a mixture of both positive and negative emotions. There are personal development and success techniques that ignore negative emotions and do not conform to psychological theories. Individuals with clear goals can use them as motivation techniques to achieve those goals. But they are not used for life success. Success techniques can be used for academic success.”

![](https://cdn.uha.com.tr/content/files/nt-240523042310.JPG)

## **There is an unfair exam system in education**

Prof. Dr. Tarhan, also referring to the education system, said, “There is a system that transcends all of us. Our current education system ties a person's life success to an exam at the end of high school. This is an unfair system. Within one year, all of a person's accumulated years are evaluated, and decisions about their life are made.”

## **The competition in the current exam system is not fair, it increases anxiety**

Prof. Dr. Tarhan also stated that this problem has been solved in the world, and thus children do not experience exam anxiety, adding, “It is not possible for a child to be without anxiety when focusing on a 2-3 hour exam. The ideal is a system suitable for mental health. Although this is known, there is a status quo in our education system. That status quo is seriously resisting. Then there will not be much need for tutoring centers. There will not be much need for private tutors either. The competition in the current exam system is not a fair competition, it's something that increases anxiety.”

## **Tarhan: "Performance-enhancing drugs before exams can turn children into drug addicts"**

Prof. Dr. Tarhan also addressed the issue of giving performance-enhancing drugs or supplements to children before exams, making the following warnings. 

“If a parent gives a child performance-enhancing drugs without a doctor's recommendation, that child will become a drug addict in the future. If they want their child to be a drug addict, they should give random drugs. Those children cannot study without taking pills after entering university. Then there are children brought to us, raised this way. Since those drugs no longer have an effect, they take drugs like methamphetamine to succeed. The best performance-enhancing 'drug' is tea, coffee…

This child becomes a child who cannot focus or study without using substances in the future. They are poisoning the child's brain. Success should not come before health."

![](https://cdn.uha.com.tr/content/files/semra-baripoglu-240523042619.JPG)

## **Raising a child is like a dance with difficult choreography… **

NPİSTANBUL Hastanesi Psychiatry Specialist and General Coordinator of Psychiatry Services Assist. Prof. Dr. Semra Baripoğlu stated that raising a child is like a dance with difficult choreography, and said that families should be knowledgeable about their child's personality traits, interests, and skills.

Assist. Prof. Dr. Semra Baripoğlu, who stated, “Parents are responsible for their child's mental health,” also pointed out the importance for parents to tell their children, “These are the country's conditions, we wouldn't want you to have to take this exam, but these are the circumstances, our priority is your mental health.”

![](https://cdn.uha.com.tr/content/files/melek-gozde-lus-240523042646.JPG)

## **Assist. Prof. Dr. Melek Gözde Luş: Exam anxiety can be managed**

Üsküdar Üniversitesi NP Etiler Medical Center Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Specialist Assist. Prof. Dr. Melek Gözde Luş addressed topics such as the recent increase in psychiatric disorders in adolescents, treatments for anxiety management, and exam anxiety, stating, “Recently, an increase in psychiatric disorders has been observed during adolescence. Adolescence is a period where an individual's identity and personality development are intensely experienced, and physical and emotional changes occur rapidly. During this process, adolescents may encounter many psychological problems, which can lead to an increase in psychiatric disorders.”

Assist. Prof. Dr. Melek Gözde Luş stated that exam anxiety can be managed, that medical treatments can be applied, and emphasized the importance of families not giving their children medication based on hearsay.

## **Physical symptoms such as nausea and vomiting are experienced**

Pointing out the importance of supporting children's individual characteristics, Assist. Prof. Dr. Melek Gözde Luş said that families should support their children instead of prodding them.

Assist. Prof. Dr. Melek Gözde Luş said, “Exam stress can lead to anxiety disorders, depression, panic attacks, and even school phobia in adolescents. Physical symptoms such as nausea and vomiting are experienced. Various support and treatment methods are recommended for adolescents and their families to cope with exam anxiety.”

![](https://cdn.uha.com.tr/content/files/aybeniz-yildirim-240523042716.JPG)

## **Effective management of parent-adolescent relationships is important**

Üsküdar Üniversitesi NP Etiler Medical Center Child and Adolescent Expert Clinical Psychologist S. Aybeniz Yıldırım, addressing adolescent psychology management, parent-adolescent relationship management, and communication, stated, “Adolescence is an important transition period in an individual's life and brings with it many physical, emotional, and social changes. During this period, adolescents take important steps in finding their identity, gaining independence, and developing their own personalities. However, adolescence can be a challenging period for both adolescents and their families. Therefore, effective management of adolescent psychology and parent-adolescent relationships is of great importance.”

Expert Clinical Psychologist Aybeniz Yıldırım noted that adolescent psychology management involves understanding and supporting adolescents' emotional, mental, and social needs, and stated, “Young people during adolescence may be exposed to many difficulties such as identity crises, identity search, and role conflicts. Therefore, it is important for parents to understand the emotional world of adolescents and approach them with empathy. Furthermore, adolescents should be allowed to express their feelings, openly discuss their problems, and seek support. Parents should listen to and understand adolescents to increase their self-confidence and ensure their emotional security.”

## **Every student can experience individual difficulties**

Expert Clinical Psychologist Aybeniz Yıldırım, explaining that every student can experience individual difficulties and that they work on these during sessions, stated that students who make plans regarding their goals manage the exam process better.

Expert Clinical Psychologist Aybeniz Yıldırım said that children in pre-LGS ages also experience anxiety for the Bilsem Exam, which is conducted for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders by the General Directorate of Special Education and Guidance Services.

![](https://cdn.uha.com.tr/content/files/elvin-aki-konuk-240523042743.JPG)

## **"Exam periods can be stressful and challenging times for many students."**

Üsküdar Üniversitesi NPİSTANBUL Hastanesi Child and Adolescent Expert Clinical Psychologist Elvin Akı Konuk also offered recommendations for empathy and managing exam stress during the exam period, stating, “Exam periods can be stressful and challenging times for many students. During this period, anxiety can manifest in various forms. Besides physical symptoms such as increased heart rate, sweating, trembling, difficulty breathing, loss of appetite, headache, irregular eating or sleeping, emotional symptoms such as tension, irritability, pessimism, worry, and restlessness can also be observed. Children experiencing these symptoms may often exhibit behaviors such as stopping studying, leaving the exam halfway or not taking it, procrastinating on studying, excessive restlessness or, conversely, immobility in the form of freezing.”

## **They may forget answers or make mistakes due to fear of humiliation **

Expert Clinical Psychologist Elvin Akı Konuk stated, “Children experiencing exam stress may also exhibit mental symptoms such as thinking they have forgotten everything they know, believing they will not succeed or that everything will end if they fail the exam, forgetfulness, difficulty concentrating, and the belief that they will be humiliated. This situation prevents the utilization of existing academic performance. Due to these thoughts, they cannot understand the questions they read in the exam, cannot focus their attention on the questions and solutions at that moment, may make small mistakes even on questions they know very well, or may forget the answers. This situation negatively affects both the child's academic performance and self-confidence,” and recommended that families observe their children based on these criteria when there is little time left until the exam. 

![](https://cdn.uha.com.tr/content/files/genel-240523043001.JPG)

Expert Clinical Psychologist Elvin Akı Konuk stated that families tend to view exams as outcome-oriented and said that it is necessary to focus on the process.

Drawing attention to the importance of parents contributing to adolescents' exam processes and helping them overcome their anxieties, Expert Clinical Psychologist Elvin Akı Konuk said, “It is necessary to instill hope for the future.”

## Akademik Referans

DOI: [https://doi.org/10.32739/uha.id.47893](https://doi.org/10.32739/uha.id.47893)

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