Bipolar Disorders Association (Bipolar Bozukluklar Derneği)

– Increase the level of awareness and knowledge of the society related to bipolar disorders, put efforts towards correcting misbelieves, stagnation, discrimination and exclusion attitudes concerning this disorder.
– Ensure that the causes of bipolar disorders, ways of protection, treatment and preventive care methods are recognized by the society, and striving to ensure that the society is educated on this subject
– Increase the knowledge of bipolar disorder patients and their families on this disease, and their skills to cope with it.
– Contribute in developing national mental health policies and legal regulations related to bipolar disorders.
– Encourage conducting medical or social scientific researches on the issues of causes of bipolar disorders, way of protection, and preventive and protective treatment, provide material support to the researches and provide scientific resources, and ensure that the results are published
– Create network of communication among the mental health workers dealing with the treatment of bipolar disorders.
– Cooperate with centers established in university or state hospitals dealing with the treatment of bipolar disorders, strengthen and support their works.
– Ensure that the information pertinent to up to date developments on the issue of bipolar disorders is included in the post-graduate trainings of the mental health workers dealing with treatment, and organize training programs towards this aim.