Operational Psychology - A New Field to Support National Security and Public Safety (Hardcover)

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. Explains operational psychologists' roles in preventing and acting against terrorism, intelligence and counterintelligence, propaganda efforts, and Influence Operations Details operational psychologists' roles in undercover domestic investigations such as internet crimes against children and the Safeguard program to reduce the impact of exposure to violent crimes Addresses the controversy around operational psychologists assisting civilian and military interrogations

General

Imprint:	Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2019
Editors:	Mark a. Staal • Sally C. Harvey
Foreword by:	Thomas J. Williams
Dimensions:	240 x 162 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	380
ISBN-13:	978-1-4408-6620-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Military history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
LSN:	1-4408-6620-1
Barcode:	9781440866203

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