Includes a foreword by Major General David A. Rubenstein. From the
editor: "71F, or "71 Foxtrot," is the AOC (area of concentration)
code assigned by the U.S. Army to the specialty of Research
Psychology. Qualifying as an Army research psychologist requires,
first of all, a Ph.D. from a research (not clinical) intensive
graduate psychology program. Due to their advanced education,
research psychologists receive a direct commission as Army officers
in the Medical Service Corps at the rank of captain. In terms of
numbers, the 71F AOC is a small one, with only 25 to 30 officers
serving in any given year. However, the 71F impact is much bigger
than this small cadre suggests. Army research psychologists apply
their extensive training and expertise in the science of psychology
and social behavior toward understanding, preserving, and enhancing
the health, well being, morale, and performance of Soldiers and
military families. As is clear throughout the pages of this book,
they do this in many ways and in many areas, but always with a
scientific approach. This is the 71F advantage: applying the
science of psychology to understand the human dimension, and
developing programs, policies, and products to benefit the person
in military operations. This book grew out of the April 2008
biennial conference of U.S. Army Research Psychologists, held in
Bethesda, Maryland. This meeting was to be my last as Consultant to
the Surgeon General for Research Psychology, and I thought it would
be a good idea to publish proceedings, which had not been done
before. As Consultant, I'd often wished for such a document to help
explain to people what it is that Army Research Psychologists "do
for a living." In addition to our core group of 71Fs, at the
Bethesda 2008 meeting we had several brand-new members, and a
number of distinguished retirees, the "grey-beards" of the 71F
clan. Together with longtime 71F colleagues Ross Pastel and Mark
Vaitkus, I also saw an unusual opportunity to capture some of the
history of the Army Research Psychology specialty while providing a
representative sample of current 71F research and activities. It
seemed to us especially important to do this at a time when the
operational demands on the Army and the total force were reaching
unprecedented levels, with no sign of easing, and with the Army in
turn relying more heavily on research psychology to inform its
programs for protecting the health, well being, and performance of
Soldiers and their families."
General
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