Donta S. Harper, a native of Georgia, currently resides in Washington State. He is a graduate of Argosy University College of Business with a Doctorate in Education, a graduate of Saint Martin's University with a Master's in Counseling Psychology, and an undergraduate of The University of La Verne with a Bachelor of Science in Criminology. As your editor, he brings extensive experts into the editorial process. At the time of this publication, he would have edited and or authored four different books, published in more than ten peer-reviewed journals and completed book chapters in publications spanning several countries and continents. Donta currently works as a correctional executive in Washington State. He has taught at the University of Washington as a part-time lecturer. He also lectured at WSB University Warsaw, Poland, for Ph.D. candidate-level students. He has extensive expertise in emotional management, emphasizing emotional intelligence, emotional regulation, interpersonal emotion regulation, and behavioral competencies either through researching, writing, or lecturing. The impetus for this book, Advancing Interpersonal Emotion Regulation and Social Regulation, is his vision to increase knowledge and understanding to create new pathways and innovation focusing on individual’s abilities to manage each other's emotions with others and through each other. Dr. Harper can be contacted through LinkedIn or visit Dr. Harper’s website at www.dontasharper.com.