Abdulkadir Haktanir, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Counselor Education at Kean University. Dr. Haktanir has clinical experience in school settings and mental health settings. He worked as a full-time school counselor in a K-12 school in Turkey and as a counselor and coordinator at Necmettin Erbakan University’s Eregli counseling center. He has national and international experience teaching in school counseling and core counseling courses in counselor education programs. Dr. Haktanir is an active scholar with 25+ peer-reviewed publications in esteemed journals, two book editorships, and five book chapter contributions. He directly contributed to the Turkish Psychological Counseling and Guidance Association’s latest code of ethics and is recognized as an author. In recognition of his scholarly contributions, he received four awards: Exemplary Research and Practice Award- Doctoral Level (2017), an award presented by the Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling- a division of the American Counseling Association; and the Most Impactful Scholar in Social Sciences, presented by Necmettin Erbakan University (2020, 2022, and 2023). Currently, he is an associate editor for Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development journal. Dr. Haktanir’s current research interests include DBT, adolescent mental health, trauma, and suicide risk assessment and prevention in school settings.