About me
Dr. Mark S. Kiselica is a Professor of Psychology at Penn State Harrisburg. Prior to his current position, he served as the Director of CACREP-accredited programs in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and School Counseling at Ball State University and The College of New Jersey. Dr. Kiselica is the author of 110 conference presentations and 160 professional publications, including Multicultural Counseling with Teenage Fathers (Sage, 1995), Handbook of Counseling Boys and Adolescent Males (Sage, 1999), Confronting Prejudice and Racism during Multicultural Training(American Counseling Association, 1999), Counseling Troubled Boys (Routledge, 2008), and When Boys Become Parents: Adolescent Fatherhood in America (Rutgers University Press, 2008). He is the editor of the Routledge Book Series on Counseling and Psychotherapy with Boys and Men, which features 19 books addressing the mental health needs of various populations of boys and men. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Counseling & Development, Professional School Counseling, Psychology of Men and Masculinity, and the Journal of Mental Health Counseling. He has taught dozens of workshops on counseling boys and men who are the survivors of sexual trauma. He also helped to create the Center on Immigration when we was the Provost of Cabrini University, and he secured grants from the Mexican government to fund scholarships for students of Mexican ancestry. In recognition of his national impact on the science and practice of the profession of counseling, Dr. Kiselica was named Researcher of the Year by the American Mental Health Counselors Association. He also was the recipient of the American Counseling Association’s Award for a Humanitarian and Caring Person in honor of his work to combat racism and antisemitism, and he was named Counselor Educator of the Year by the American Mental Health Counselors Association.
