Operational Psychology

Details the growth, roles, and applications of this new specialty aiming to protect American national and public well-being in the face of increasing and novel threats both inside and outside the United States.
In this age of asymmetric warfare, increasing home-grown terrorism, and continuing threats from abroad, a new specialty has emerged and expanded-operational psychology.
Operational psychology plays a unique role in supporting issues of national security, national defense, and public safety. In this book, authors Mark A. Staal and Sally C. Harvey, both operational psychologists and retired military colonels, lead a team of experts explaining the field, its many roles, and how it is expanding. Topics include its application in intelligence, counterintelligence, and counterterrorism activities, consultation in high-risk training, criminal investigations including those of internet crimes against children, threat assessment, interrogations, aviation, personnel selection, and leadership development.
The text addresses the ethical questions and controversies that surround some of these roles, such as those associated with interrogation techniques. It also describes the role of operational psychologists in activities ranging from assessing and training people for maximum resiliency and hardiness to profiling people and groups of concern in national security investigations.

Sally C. Harvey, PhD, is a retired Colonel and a clinical psychologist at Darnall Army Medical Center, Fort Hood, TX. Mark A. Staal is the owner of OSS Consulting, LLC in Southern Pines, NC, and previous command psychologist for the Air Force's Special Operations Command.

Foreword
Colonel (Ret) Thomas J. Williams, PhD
Acknowledgments
Part One Foundations of Operational Psychology
Chapter 1 History, Goals, and Applications of Operational Psychology
Mark A. Staal and Sally C. Harvey
Chapter 2 Cross-Cultural Issues in Operational Psychology
Mark A. Staal and Brendon Bluestein
Chapter 3 The Ethics of Operational Psychology
Mark A. Staal and Sally C. Harvey
Part Two Human Performance Optimization and Consultation
Chapter 4 Personnel Suitability Screening
Barbara Thompson, Chad E. Morrow, and Mark A. Staal
Chapter 5 Operational Psychology Consultation within Special Operations Units
Sally C. Harvey
Chapter 6 Consultation to Leadership and Organizational Development
Mark A. Staal
Chapter 7 Operational Psychology Consultation to Aviation
Shawnna Chee and Mark A. Staal
Part Three Consultation to Operations
Chapter 8 Operational Psychology in Insider Threat
Christopher Myers and Amanda Trent
Chapter 9 Investigative Psychology: Applying Psychological Science to Military Criminal Investigations
Heather L. Morris and David G. Ray
Chapter 10 Foundations of Indirect Assessment
Daniel J. Neller
Chapter 11 Behavioral Science Consultation to Military Interrogations
Mark A. Staal
Part Four Operations Research
Chapter 12 The High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG): Inception, Evolution, and Outcomes
Susan E. Brandon, Joeanna C. Arthur, David G. Ray, Christian A. Meissner, Steven M. Kleinman, Melissa B. Russano, and Simon Wells
Chapter 13 A Scientific Perspective on the 2006 U.S. Army Field Manual 2-22.3
Susan E. Brandon, Steven M. Kleinman, and Joeanna C. Arthur
Chapter 14 Psychology of Terrorism and Self-Radicalization
Mark A. Staal and Christopher Myers
Part Five Future Directions in Operational Psychological Applications
Chapter 15 Operational Psychology: A Bridge from the Past to Future Applications
Mark A. Staal and Sally C. Harvey
About the Editors and Contributors
Index