My Publications

Özel, D. (2025). Barış eğitimi uygulamaları: İlkokullar için travmaya duyarlı ve etkileşim temelli etkinlikler. Pegem Akademi. 

• Özel, D., & Sümer, Z. (2025). Peace Education Program Adaptation: A Sustainable Way for Harmony. Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies, 12(2), 231–251. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48820264
• Yurdakul, S., Özel, D., & Gomes, S. (2025). How the body remembers a traumatic event: a case study from Somatic Experiencing perspective. Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy, 20(3), 250–267. https://doi.org/10.1080/17432979.2025.2481032
• Özel, D., Eryigit, D., Aydoğdu, B. N., Dökmeci, M. (2024). Somatik Deneyimleme: Afet ve Acil Durumlarla Çalışmada Yeni Bir Yaklaşım. Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 25(1), 101-117.
• Özel, D. (2024). We are all in this together: Coping with stress during uncertain times through Somatic Experiencing. Group Analysis, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1177/05333164231189471
  (SSCI, Q4)
• Özel, D., & Yurtsever, A. (2023). The gap analysis of peace education components in
  English language classroom: A case study.Kalem Egitim ve Insan Bilimleri Dergisi, 13(1),
  325-345. https://doi.org/10.23863/kalem.2023.261 (ULAKBIM)
• Özel, D., & Erdur-Baker, Ö. (2023). Struggles of refugee-receiving schools in Turkey.Social
  Sciences, 12, 213. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12040231 (ESCI, Q2)
• Özel, D., & Yurtsever, A. (2023). Teaching in uncertain times: What does teacher wellbeing look like during COVID-19 pandemic. Asian Journal of Distance Education 18(1), 147-165.
  (EBSCO)
• Özel, D. (2022). Emotional reflexivity in social work with refugees: Implications from
  Turkey. Migration Letters, 19(6), 843. https://doi.org/10.33182/ml.v19i6.1425 (ESCI, Q2)
• Göktürk, D. & Özel, D. (2021). Kültürel esitsizliklerin egitim ve toplumsal alandaki esitsizliklerin üretimine etkisi. FLSF, Felsefe ve Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 32.
  https://doi.org/10.53844/flsf.946809 (EBSCOHost)
• Özel, D. (2021). Critical consciousness of school counselors in Turkey. International Journal of Social Sciences and Education Research, 7(3), 253-260.
  https://doi.org/10.24289/ijsser.947570 (ULAKBIM)
• Özel, D. & Altunay-Yılmaz, H. (2021). Educational journey of refugee students: Suggestions for practitioners. Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry, 12(2), 405-437.
  https://doi.org/10.17569/tojqi.852044 (Scopus)
• Yurtsever, A. & Özel, D. (2021). The role of cultural awareness in the EFL classroom.
  Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry, 12(1), 101-132. https://doi.org/10.17569/tojqi.776499
  (Scopus)
• Özel, D. & Çetinkaya Yıldız, E. (2020). Kapsayıcı egitim ve ekolojik model (Inclusive
  education and ecological model). Journal of Inclusive Education in Research and Practice,
  1(2), 16-28.
• Obara, K., Okada, S., Kagehira, Y., Yoshikawa, T. & Özel, D. (2020). Situation of Syrian
  refugee children in Turkey and the challenges in supporting children with intellectual
  disabilities. Hokkaido University Collection of Scholarly and Academic Papers: HUSCAP, 33-
  47. https://doi.org/10.14943/rcccd.14.33

• Çetinkaya-Yıldız, E. & Özel, D. (2025). Kapsayıcı eğitimde psikolojik danışma ve rehberlik hizmetleri. In S. Aktekin, M. Öztürk, & M. Arslan (Eds.), ‘Kapsayıcı eğitim: Kuramdan uygulamaya bütüncül bir yaklaşım’. Pegem Akademi.
• Çetinkaya-Yıldız, E. & Özel, D. (2023). The paradoxes of online multicultural counseling: Challenges and opportunities. In Istifci, I. & Williams, P. (eds), ”Current Issues in
  Psychology and Education”. Turkey: Startinforum
• Ginter, E.J., Roysircar, G. & Gerstein, L.H. (2022). Multicultural and International Approaches (Çokkültürlü ve uluslararası Yaklasımlar) (D., Ozel, Trans.). In S. Bastemur &
  M. A. Kuruncu (ed.), Theories and Applications of Counseling and Psychotherapy: Relevance Across Cultures and Settings (Psikolojik Danısma ve Psikoterapi Kuramları ve
  Uygulamaları). (Original work published 201.
• Özel, D. & Çetinkaya- Yıldız, E. (2021). Current State of School Counselors’ Multicultural
  and Inclusive Counseling Competencies in Turkey. In Hamarta, E., Arslan, C., Çiftçi, S. &
  Usu, M. (eds.), Akademik Arastırmalar 2021 (Academic Research 2021), (pp.70-79). Çizgi
  Yayıncılık: Ankara
• Altunay- Yılmaz, H. & Özel, D. (2021). Mülteciler ve travmatik deneyimleri (Refugees and
  their traumatic experiences). In Erdur-Baker, Ö., Aksöz Efe, I. & Dogan, T. (Eds.), Travma
  psikolojisi (Trauma psychology), (pp. 277-322). Pegem Akademi Yayıncılık.
• Özel, D. (2017). Savas ve çocuk (War and Children). In A. Süleymanov, P. Sönmez, F.
  Demirbas Ünver, & S. Akbaba (Eds.), Uluslarası göç ve çocuklar – International migration
  and children (pp. 49-62). London: Transnational Press.

• Özel, D. (2017, October 10-11). Egitim fakültesi’ndeki ögretim üyelerinin barıs egitimine iliskin gorusleri: Bir ihtiyac analizi çalismasi [Paper presentation]. 21. YY’da Uluslararasi Goc
  Konferansi, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Türkiye
• Özel, D. & Erdur- Baker, Ö. (2018, March 13). Mültecilerle çalısan okul psikolojik danısmanlarının deneyimleri [Paper presentation]. 1st Symposium of Pscyhological Health of
  Refugees and Asylum- Seekers, Ankara, Turkey
• Özel, D. (2019, July 9-12). Critical consciousness of school counselors in Turkey [Paper presentation]. 41st International School Psychology Association Conference: Empowering
  People for Lifelong Learning, Basel, Switzerland
• Özel, D. & Erdur- Baker, Ö. (2019, July 9-12). School counselors’ problems, roles and responsibilities [Paper presentation]. 41st International School Psychology Association Conference: Empowering People for Lifelong Learning, Basel, Switzerland.
• Özel, D. & Yurtsever, A. (2019, September 2-6). The gap analysis of peace education components in English language classroom: A case study [Paper presentation]. Emerging Researchers’ Conference by EERA, Hamburg, Germany
• Özel, D. & Erdur- Baker, Ö. (2019, September 2-6). Examining needs and issues of refugeereceiving schools in Turkey from the perspectives of school counselors [Paper presentation].
  European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Hamburg, Germany
• Özel, D. & Altunay- Yılmaz, H. (2019, November 15-17). Yüksekögretimde psikolojik danısmanlık ve göç [Paper presentation]. 9th International Congress on Psychological Counseling and Guidance in Higher Education, Istanbul, Türkiye
• Özel, D. (2021, May 27-28). Peace Education applications during adaptation process of refugees: Precedents from good practices [Paper presentation]. Symposium on Immigrant
  Children’s Education, Göçmen Çocukların Egitimi Sempozyumu, Mardin, Türkiye
• Yurtsever, A. & Özel, D. (2021, June 9-11). The role of cultural awareness in the EFL classroom [Paper presentation]. Approaches to Migration, Language and Identity (AMLI) 2021
  Conference, University of Sussex, UK.
• Özel, D. & Çetinkaya Yıldız, E. (2021, June 13-15). Current state of the multicultural and
  inclusive counseling competencies of school counselors in Turkey [Paper presentation]. Paper presented at International Congress on Academic Research and Practice, Akdeniz
  University, Türkiye