Jaimie Stickl Haugen

Profile

Dr. Jaimie Stickl Haugen is a clinical associate professor in the Counselor Education program at William & Mary. She is a licensed Professional School Counselor in New York and Colorado, a Licensed Professional Counselor (Colorado), a National Certified Counselor and an Approved Clinical Supervisor.

Dr. Stickl Haugen is passionate about bridging the research to practice gap through community-engaged research and intentional research dissemination. Her research interests connect with the common thread of school counseling and child mental health as it relates to (a) measurement and assessment, (b) student belonging and (c) youth suicide. Dr. Stickl Haugen also focuses on integrating best practices in instrument development to support the creation and refinement of high-quality, culturally responsive assessments and counseling outcome research. She has published in peer-reviewed journals such as “Professional School Counseling,” “Journal of Counseling & Development,” “Counselor Education and Supervision,” and the “Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation.”

Dr. Stickl Haugen has been actively involved in and holds leadership roles in a number of state and national professional counseling organizations including the American School Counselor Association, the Colorado School Counselor Association and the Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling. She has also serves and/or served on the editorial board for multiple journals including “Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development,” “Journal of School-Based Counseling Policy and Evaluation,” the “Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation” journal, and the official journal of the Southern Association for Counselor Education and Supervision.

Education

Ph.D. in Counseling and Counselor Education, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
M.A. in School and Community Counseling, Regent University
B.S. in Elementary Education, Grove City College

Activities and Honors

Exemplary Assessment and Evaluation Practices – Professional Award, Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling (2024)

Best Practices in Research Award for Faculty, American Counseling Association (2023)

Sink Award for Outstanding Co-authored Publication in “Journal of School-Based Counseling Policy and Evaluation” (2021)

Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling Emerging Leader (2017-2018)

Selected Publications

Stickl Haugen, J., Waalkes, P., Decino, D., & Swindle, P. (2025). School counselors’ experience with crisis and postvention. Professional School Counseling. https://doi.org/10.1177/2156759X251359486

Stickl Haugen, J., Frawley, C., & Bledsoe, K. (2025). The development of the Student Belonging Scale: A measure of school belonging. Professional School Counseling. https://doi.org/10.1177/2156759X251340045

Stickl Haugen, J., Waalkes, P., Burgess, M., & Swindle, P. (2023). ‘It’s like losing a family member’: School counselors’ experience with student suicide. Journal of Counseling & Development, 101(4), 449-460. DOI: 10.1002/jcad.12483

Stickl Haugen, J., Sutter, C. C., Tinstman Jones, J. L., & Campbell, L.O. (2022). Teachers as youth suicide prevention gatekeepers: An examination of suicide prevention training and exposure to students at risk of suicide. Child & Youth Care Forum. DOI: 10.1007/s10566-022-09699-5

Stickl Haugen, J., Waalkes, P., & Lambie, G. W. (2021). A national survey of school counselors’ experiences with student death by suicide. Professional School Counseling, 25(1), 1-11. DOI: 10.1177/2156759X21993804

Lambie, G. W., & Stickl Haugen, J. (2021). The Assessment of School Counseling Competencies as a tool to support school counseling students, supervisors, and training programs. Professional School Counseling, 25, 1-10. DOI: 10.1177/2156759X20981050 

Stickl Haugen, J., Sutter, C., Tinstman Jones, J. , & Campbell, L. O. (2020). The Teacher Expectations and Values for Suicide Prevention Scale: Confirmatory factor analysis and validation. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention. DOI: 10.1027/0227-5910/a000706 

Stickl Haugen, J., & Chouinard, J. (2019). Transparent, translucent, opaque: Exploring the dimensions of power in culturally responsive evaluation contexts. American Journal of Evaluation, 40, 376-394. DOI: 10.1177/1098214018796342

Stickl Haugen, J., Wester, K., & Wachter Morris, C. (2019). The need to belong: An exploration of belonging among urban middle school students. The Journal of Child and Adolescent Counseling. DOI: 10.1080/23727810.2018.1556988 

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