Child Guidance Center

Blubbering Over Bursting Balloon: A Case Report of Globophobia

Abstract Globophobia is an extreme, overwhelming, and irrational fear of balloons. This phobia often includes extreme fear, anxiety, or panic at the thought, sight, sound, touch, and/or smell of balloons. We report a case of a globophobic child whose fear of balloons started afte...

Measuring Digital Amnesia: Psychometric Validation of the Turkish Digital Amnesia Scale with Exploratory Network Analysis

The widespread integration of digital technologies has increased reliance on digital systems for storing and retrieving information, a phenomenon referred to as digital amnesia. Digital amnesia reflects technology-mediated cognitive offloading within human-computer interaction. T...