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Abdulkadir Haktanir, Ph.D.

Associate Professoor
Office Location
EC-302
Email
ahaktani@kean.edu
Phone
908-7375907
Abdulkadir Haktanir

Abdulkadir Haktanir, Ph.D., CSC-NJ, DRCC-NJ, 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 counseling center. He has national and international experience in teaching in school counseling and core counseling courses in counselor education programs. Dr. Haktanir is an active scholar with 30 peer-reviewed publications in esteemed journals (e.g., Journal of Counseling and Development, Psychology in the Schools, Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Psychological Trauma: Theor, Research, Practice, and Policy), two book editorships, and five book chapter contributions. He directly contributed to Turkish Psychological Counseling and Guidance Association’s latest code of ethics and is recognized as an author. Dr. Haktanir has over 1450 citations in Google Scholar as of May 2026.

In recognition of his scholarly contributions, he received four awards: Exemplary Research and Practice Award- Doctoral Level (2017), an award presented by Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling (AARC)- a division of American Counseling Association; and the Most Impactful Scholar in Social Sciences, presented by Necmettin Erbakan University in 2020, 2022, and 2023. Additionally, Dr. Haktanir received a grant from the AARC to for a project focusing on parent-child quality relationship. Currently, he is an associate editor for Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development journal, one of the top counseling journals. Dr. Haktanir’s current research interests focus on four main areas: (a) school counseling, counseling children and adolescents, (b) trauma and crisis counseling, (c) college student mental health, and (d) assessment and evaluation in counseling. 

Dr. Haktanir has chaired several student dissertations and collaborate with master’s and Ph.D. student on multiple research projects. He currently teaches School Counseling, Research Methods in Counseling, Professional Seminar in Counseling, and Quantitate Research and Advance Statistics courses at the master’s and doctoral levels.

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Education

  • Ph.D. Counselor Education, Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi
  • M.Ed. School Counseling, Kent State University
  • B.S. Psychological Counseling and Guidance, Tokat Gaziosmanpasa University

Courses Taught

  • Counseling Skills
  • Research Methods
  • Multicultural Counseling
  • Group Counseling
  • Ethics in Counseling
  • School Counseling
  • Professional Seminar in Counseling
  • Dissertation
  • Quantitative Statistics
  • Advance Statistics

Selected Publications

Simsir Gokalp, Z., Demirci, A., Haktanir, A., & Turgut, I. (2026). Improving self-control and grit of adolescents in schools: A quasi-experimental analysis of the self-control intervention program. Journal of Counseling and Development. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcad.70033

Haktanir, A., Kurnaz, M. F. (2025). Systematic review of psychotherapies and meta-analysis of cognitive behavior therapy and narrative exposure therapy for treating earthquake-related posttraumatic stress disorder. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 17(6), 1357-1368. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0001743

Simsir Gokalp, Z., & Haktanir, A. (2024). The mediating role of self-control between stress and procrastination among adolescents: Examining the ego depletion theory. Psychology in the Schools. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/pits.23217

Haktanir, A., Lenz, A. S., Kurnaz. M. F. (2024). Reliability generalization meta-analysis of the Child PTSD Symptom Scale for DSM-5 (CPSS-5). Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development. 57(2), 186-198. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481756.2024.2318552

Callender, K., & Haktanir, A. (2023). Development of the counsellor personal wellness and professional wellbeing assessment. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 54(3), 456-469. https://doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2023.2200235

Haktanir, A., Aydil, D., Baloğlu, M., Kesici, Ş. (2022). The use of Dialectical Behavior Therapy in adolescent anger management. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/13591045221148075

Simsir Gokalp, Z., & Haktanir, A. (2021). Posttraumatic growth experiences of refugees: A meta-synthesis of qualitative studies. Journal of Community Psychology, 50(3), 1395-1410. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22723

Haktanir, A., & Callender, K. A. (2020). Meta-analysis of dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) for treating substance use. Research on Education and Psychology, 4(Special Issue), 74-87.

Lenz, A. S., Haktanir, A., & Callender, K. (2017). Meta-analysis of trauma-focused therapies for treating posttraumatic stress disorder. Journal of Counseling and Development, 95, 339-353. doi:10.1002/jcad.12148