Murat Yıldırım Editor

Dr. Arslan is an associate professor at Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University in Turkey and an honorary senior fellow at the Center for Wellbeing, University of Melbourne, Australia. He is a researcher in the field of counselling psychology, with a core interest in children and adolescent mental health and wellbeing. His research explores how best to provide meaningful programs and resources that promote positive youth development and wellbeing. He is the Founding Editor of the Journal of Happiness and Health, Journal of School and Educational Psychology, and the Associate Editor of the Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, and is a consultant to numerous scientific journals for interdisciplinary, multi-cultural research and development addressing resilience, addiction, mental health and wellbeing.

Dr Murat Yıldırım is an associate professor of psychology and obtained his master’s (MSc) and PhD degrees from the University of Leicester, United Kingdom. Dr Yıldırım has completed a postdoc at the University of Leicester between 2019-2021. Dr Yıldırım is currently working as an Associate Professor of Psychology, Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University, Turkey. His research has mainly focused on the examination of the mechanisms underlying well-being and mental health. Dr Yıldırım uses quantitative methods with advanced statistical techniques in his research and has a particular interest in factors promoting well-being and positive mental health. Dr Yıldırım has published more than 90 scientific papers in high-ranking peer-reviewed journals, books, book chapters, and conference papers. Also, he is the Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of School and Educational Psychology, and the Associate Editor of the Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse and Frontiers in Psychology