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Title: Transitioning from the Clinic to the Field of Operations and Investigations (Report)
Author : The Forensic Examiner
Release Date : January 22, 2010
Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
Pages : * pages
Size : 198 KB

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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] There exists a growing area of psychological specialization in consulting to United States government (USG) operations and investigations referred to as either "operational psychology" or "national security psychology" Borum, & Fein, 2010). While operational psychology has achieved critical mass and is now a going concern, it has yet to achieve specialty status in psychology as a profession. The main specialty areas within the profession of psychology include: clinical, experimental (research), forensic, geriatric, industrial-organizational, neuropsychology, pediatric (or child), and social. There are over 50 divisions within the American Psychological Association (APA), an organization with over 150,000 members (APA, 2010). While a majority of the APA membership consists of licensed, doctoral-level clinical psychologists, some achieve multiple areas of specialization. It is not uncommon for a clinician to also be a neuropsychologist and/or a forensic psychologist, depending upon the primary work setting. Like our colleagues in forensic psychology and neuropsychology, it will take several additional steps for operational psychology to achieve specialty status. Even so, most clinical psychologists (herein referred to as "clinicians") develop an idea that they have entered a new arena when they participate in an operational or an investigative consultation. Indeed, clinicians entering the field of operational psychology from the therapist's chair encounter significant challenges as they take the necessary steps of additional training and supervised experience on their way to developing expertise in operational consultation.