Dr. Dr. Özge Ertürk, Ayşe Karadaş
2025
Contemporary healthcare is characterized by increasing clinical complexity, rapid digitalization, psychosocial vulnerability, and heightened ethical responsibility. Within this evolving environment, nursing emerges as a discipline that integrates scientific rigor, human sensitivity, and adaptive leadership across clinical, educational, and societal domains. This edited volume brings together a diverse yet coherent collection of nursing-centered studies that address evidence-based clinical practice, educational innovation, psychosocial health, workplace well-being, ethical sensitivity, and disaster- related challenges. The impact of digital lifestyles on health and well-being is critically examined in “Digital Detox and Quality of Life: A Literature-Based Review.” By synthesizing current research, this chapter addresses digital overload, technology-related stress, and the implications of digital detox strategies for mental health, daily functioning, and overall quality of life—an emerging concern for both healthcare professionals and the populations they serve. Psychosocial health across the lifespan constitutes a major thematic axis of this volume. The chapter “Psychosocial Effects of Chronic Illnesses on Children and Families in Childhood” provides a family-centered analysis of chronic disease, focusing on emotional burden, coping mechanisms, and the supportive role of nursing interventions in pediatric care. Complementing this perspective, “Psychosocial Challenges in Adolescents with Siblings Who Have Special Needs” sheds light on an often-overlooked population, emphasizing emotional resilience, role strain, and the necessity of holistic nursing support for adolescents within complex family systems. Workplace health and organizational well-being are addressed in “Silent Destruction in the Workplace: Mobbing and Its Health Effects—An Analysis in the Context of ILO Recommendations.” This chapter examines workplace mobbing as a significant occupational health risk, a
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