Simply The Summary

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
— Hans Hofmann, Introduction to the Bootstrap, 1993

Security Applications

• Clinical and forensic psychology professional specializing in human-centered security applications across law enforcement, military, intelligence and policy making.

• Improving human performance in risk-based prevention, protection, response and consequence management in asymmetric environments in our “different worlds of risk and threats.”

• Simulation technologies (e.g. virtual reality environments) and live scenario based training.

• “Rebooting The Mind Through Mental Athletics” (i.e., improving observer’s visual acuity, reaction time, pattern recognition, mind mapping, mental models and rapid dynamic decision making) that blend trade-craft with street-craft human-centric, learner-centric and performance-centric skill sets that are needed to maintain initiative when human assets identify, mitigate and defeat violence risk and threat assessments in emerging asymmetric environments.

• Behavioral based investigative and operational support of counterinsurgency analysis (e.g., terrorist networks, terrorist groups intent on attacks, terrorist targeting methodology, and terrorist attack methods and measures).

• Written intelligence assessments providing support in behavioral/criminal investigative analysis (i.e., interpreting offender behavior, understanding complex adaptive systems and chaos theory, leadership development, organizational culture and behavior, and group dynamics) of asymmetric violence risk and threat assessments.

• Psychological warfare against the mind (e.g., terrorism, ethnopolitical conflict/warfare, and group identity and intergroup conflict) and consequence management.

Forensic and Clinical Applications

• Broadly: the assessment and practical application (i.e., research, clinical practice, public policy, and teaching/training) of scientific and professional aspects principally of forensic and clinical psychology, and secondarily developmental, cognitive, neuro and social psychology to questions and issues relating to persons who, in some way, present with risk-based prevention, protection, response and consequence management in our “different worlds of risk and threats” in the legal process or legal system.

• Narrowly: the assessment and treatment of persons with a variety of mental disorders, ranging from less severe problems (e.g., marital difficulties, adjustment problems) to severe disorders (e.g., criminal psychopathy, violence risk and threat assessment, severe antisocial behaviors and disorders, psychotic disorders and substance abuse) where culture, diversity and community issues affect understanding of mental illness (i.e., psychopathology), differential diagnosis and treatment planning and psycholegal processes.

Mediation Applications

• Assist pre-decree and post-decree couples and family systems to resolve domestic relations legal issues including settling disputes regarding custody (parenting plans), child support, spousal support, and division of assets and debts.

Business Applications

• Designing and developing human performance technologies (HPT), systems approaches to training and instructional systems design (SAT/ISD), and organization transformation and change interventions to support enterprise-wide initiatives to resolve dynamic operational constraints adversely affecting the well being and profitability of organizations and respectively human assets’ mind sets, productivity and performance.

• Conducting assessments for learner-centric and performance-centric training, identifying target audiences, validating and developing training resources and materials (i.e., learning objectives, curriculum outlines, evaluate methodologies and program delivery), and formulating development and instructional strategies in conformance with selected or recommended training methods and media.

• Developing standards and criteria of curriculum design and evaluation for the development and delivery of high-quality, comprehensive training products and services for end users.

Academic Applications

• Professional doctoral training in clinical and forensic psychology preparing students to become multi-culturally (i.e., knowledge of and competence in working with people from diverse cultures, backgrounds and perspectives) and professionally proficient individuals who learn to approach practice and scholarship through (a) real-world training experiences, (b) applied field research, (c) practitioner/scholar faculty and (d) frequent interaction with faculty and fellow students in a collaborative learning approach and learning community.

• Clinically — Diagnostic Interviewing, Basic and Advanced Psychopathology and Differential Diagnosis, Psychological Assessment and Advanced Assessment, Psychological Systems Theories, (i.e., complex adaptive systems and systemic conditions affecting individual development and change ), Professional Issues and Ethics, and Treatment Interventions.

• Forensically — Forensic Assessment and Interviewing, Basic and Advanced Forensic Psychopathology and Differential Diagnosis, Professional Forensic Psychology  Issues and Ethics, Social Bases of Behavior (i.e., social psychology and social-cultural issues in the civil and criminal  legal process  and legal system ), Forensic Documentation, Report Writing and Testifying, Trauma and Crisis Intervention, Violence Risk and Threat Assessment, Hostage Negotiations, and Forensic Psychology in Correctional Settings.

• Philosophies, methods, critical thinking approaches and practical skill sets  in conflict resolution in the practice as a mediator.

• Graduate level training on theories, methods, critical thinking approaches and practical skill sets (e.g., facilitative communication skills and negotiation styles) in conflict resolution grounded in  international peace keeping, multi-cultural and interpersonal professional, ethical and vocational contexts.