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Book Synopsis This volume highlights the diverse contributions of military psychologists toward U.S. security and toward the discipline of psychology itself. The United States Armed Forces have frequently led American culture in personnel and policy changes that the general population had difficulty accepting, such as racial integration and the integration of women. In addition, psychologists in the military have used clinical approaches to post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), substance abuse, and psychopharmacology that have tested research understanding before widespread use for the general public.
Currently, psychologists are working with policy makers to help the public build resiliency and cope with disasters, terrorism, and possible threats to the homeland. By putting their skills to work in such areas as personnel management, ergonomics, clinical care, training, leadership and executive development, and social and behavioral research, these individuals have transformed psychology into an integrative discipline that now encompasses aspects of health care and other fields such as information technology and disaster management.
Psychology in the Service of National Security includes perspectives of psychologists and social scientists representing the uniformed services, research institutions, business, and academia. Readers interested in the history of psychology will learn how our armed services came to be on the cutting edge in many areas of basic and applied science. Readers inside and outside the military will learn lessons from military psychology that they can apply to community-based homeland security efforts.
Table of Contents Contributors
Foreword
Patrick H. DeLeon
Introduction
Part I. From Military Psychology to National Security Psychology
Chapter 1: The Changing Face of National Security
A. David Mangelsdorff
Chapter 2: Foundations of National Security Psychology
Warren R. Street
Part II. Individual Differences
Chapter 3: Human Factors Research in the Naval Service
Paul D. Nelson
Chapter 4: National Security Interests at the Naval Health Research Center
Karl F. Van Orden and D. Stephen Nice
Chapter 5: U.S. Army Research in Human Performance
Gerald P. Krueger
Chapter 6: The History of Special Operations Psychological Selection
L. Morgan Banks
Part III. Personnel Management
Chapter 7: The Human Resources Research Organization: Research and Development Related to National Security Concerns
Peter F. Ramsberger
Chapter 8: Psychology in Air Force Training and Education
Henry L. Taylor
Chapter 9: The Navy Personnel Research and Development Center
Martin Wiskoff and Edmund Thomas
Part IV. Clinical and Counseling Psychology
Chapter 10: Navy Clinical Psychology: A Distinguished Past and a Vibrant Future
Morgan T. Sammons
Chapter 11: Clinical Psychology in the U.S. Army: 1946–2004
Robert S. Nichols
Chapter 12: Air Force Clinical Psychology: History and Future Trends
Karl O. Moe
Part V. Applied Social Psychology
Chapter 13: The U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences
Paul A. Gade, Jonathan D. Kaplan, and Nicole M. Dudley
Chapter 14: The Racial Integration of the U.S. Armed Forces
Alan Gropman
Chapter 15: Psychological Research with Military Women
Janice D. Yoder and Loren Naidoo
Chapter 16: Military Family Research
Mady Wechsler Segal
Part VI. Conclusions
Chapter 17: Psychology's Strategic Position for Today's National Security Concerns
A. David Mangelsdorff
Additional Resources
References
Author Index
Subject Index
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