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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Figen KASAPOGLU is an Associate Professor at the Department of Guidance and Psychological Counseling, Faculty of Education, Inonu University. She holds a BSc (2005), MSc (2013), and PhD (2019) from the same department. Her academic career includes full-time work at various educational institutions and counseling centers under the Ministry of National Education from 2006 to 2020.
Her research focuses on school counseling methodologies, well-being assessment, and integration of spirituality into psychological practices. Key interests include mindfulness in resilience, gender disparities in educational technology, pandemic mental health, and counselor competency development.
Recent publications explore mindfulness's role in parental attitudes, spiritual bypass measurement in counseling, and psychological impacts of disasters like the Kahramanmaraş earthquakes. She has contributed to meta-analyses on technology use and well-being, and developed scales assessing spiritual orientation and counselor qualities. Her work frequently addresses contemporary crises such as the 2020 pandemic, analyzing anxiety dynamics and coping strategies through a spiritual lens.
No academic awards are listed in the provided materials. Her professional contributions include curriculum design for spiritual counseling courses and evaluation of counselor training programs. She maintains active involvement in disaster mental health initiatives and educational technology research.
