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Applying Military Psychology: Looking Back, Looking Ahead

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The purpose of the final chapter is to bring together previous concepts expressed in this volume with a current understanding of state of the art military assessment and military clinical psychology. We review current practices in assessment and measurement, and provide some insights into how developments in assessment technology might improve personnel selection and classification. Additionally, we need to provide more robust screening of security and intelligence personnel, and assure we have essential capabilities to support the military in an era of cyber-conflicts. We next discuss recent advances in military clinical psychology, and provide a roadmap for the way ahead regarding critical issues in the field. These include, for example, the diagnosis and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder and mild traumatic brain injury, the so-called “signature wounds” of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Issues awaiting resolution and directions for future leaders in military psychology in both fields are also presented.

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  1. Retired Research Psychologist Department of Defense, Monterey, CA, USA

    Martin F. Wiskoff

  2. National Register of Health Service Psychologists, Washington, DC, USA

    Morgan T. Sammons

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Wiskoff, M.F., Sammons, M.T. (2017). Applying Military Psychology: Looking Back, Looking Ahead. In: Bowles, S., Bartone, P. (eds) Handbook of Military Psychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66192-6_36

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