On November 2-6, 2016, Melek Karimova, Assistant Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and Director of the Psychological Service Center at Khazar University, participated in the 2nd International Conference on  Social Sciences and Education Research which was held in Istanbul, Turkey. She presented a paper entitled “The Brief Symptom Inventory: A Validity-Reliability Study of a Sample From Azerbaijan.” The conference was organized by International Center of Social & Education Research (ICSER) and supported by Suleyman Demirel University (Turkey) and West Hungary University (Hungary).