Handbook of Police Psychology (2^nd Ed.)

The Handbook of Police Psychology features contributions from over 30 leading experts on the core matters of police psychology. The collection surveys everything from the beginnings of police psychology and early influences on the profession; to pre-employment screening, assessment, and evaluation; to clinical interventions.

Alongside original chapters first published in 2011, this edition features new content on deadly force encounters, officer resilience training, and police leadership enhancement. Influential figures in the field of police psychology are discussed, including America?s first full-time police psychologist, who served in the Los Angeles Police Department, and the first full-time police officer to earn a doctorate in psychology while still in uniform, who served with the New York Police Department.

The Handbook of Police Psychology is an invaluable resource for police legal advisors, policy writers, and police psychologists, as well as for graduates studying police or forensic psychology.

Preface

About the Editor

Chapter 1: Introduction and History of Police Psychology, J. Kitaeff

Part 1. General Practice

Chapter 2: Police Psychological Consultation Services to Public Safety, J.A. Davis

Chapter 3: Legal Issues Related to Hiring and Promotion of Police Officers, A. Gutman

Chapter 4: Ethical Issues in Police Psychology, J.L. McCutcheon

Chapter 5: Police vs. Probation/Surveillance Officers: Similarities and Differences, D.S. Herrmann, B. Broderick

Part 2. Pre-employment Psychological Screening

Chapter 6: Criterion-Related Psychological Evaluations, P.A. Weiss, W.U. Weiss

Chapter 7: Actuarial vs. Clinical Judgment Prediction Models in Pre-employment Psychological Screening of Police Candidates, M.J. Cuttler

Chapter 8: Appraising and Managing Police Officer Performance, R. Jacobs, C. Thoroughgood, K. Sawyer

Chapter 9: Assessments for Selection and Promotion of Police Officers, R. Jacobs, L. Cushenbery, P.E. Grabarek

Chapter 10: The Integration Section of Forensic Psychological Reports in Law Enforcement: Culturally Responsive Ending Words, R. Johnson

Chapter 11: Challenging the Police De-selection Process, J.M. Arcaya

Part 3. Training and Evaluation

Chapter 12: Couples Counseling/Assessment and Use of the Inwald Relationship Surveys, R. Inwald, E.A. Willman, S. Inwald

Chapter 13: Fitness-For-Duty Evaluations, D. Corey

Chapter 14: Methods for Real-Time Assessment of Operational Stress During Realistic Police Tactical Training, D. Brisinda, R. Fenici, A.R. Sorbo

Chapter 15: Evolution of Police Leadership Enhancement, A. Park and J.S. Herndon

Chapter 16: When Cops Kill: Understanding the Psychology of Deadly Force Encounters, L. Miller

Part 4. Police Procedure

Chapter 17: Police Use of Force, F.J. Gallo

Chapter 18: Hostage Negotiations, W.C. Mullins, M.J. McMains

Chapter 19: Domestic Violence: An Analysis of the Crime and Punishment of Intimate Partner Abuse, S.L. Brooke, T.K. Straus

Chapter 20: Police Interviews with Suspects: International Perspectives, K.A. Roberts, V. Herrington

Chapter 21: Applying Restorative Justice Principles in Law Enforcement, R. Myers

Part 5. Clinical Practice

Chapter 22: Police Personality: Theoretical Issues and Research, G.L. Gerber

Chapter 23: Police and Public Safety Complex Trauma and Grief: An Eco-ethological Existential Analysis, D. Rudofossi

Chapter 24: Suicide in Law Enforcement, A. Liang, A.A. Abrams, K. Stevens, B. Frechette

Part 6. Treatment and Dysfunction

Chapter 25: Cops in Trouble: Psychological Strategies for Helping Officers Under Investigation, Criminal Prosecution, or Civil Litigation, L. Miller

Chapter 26: Evidence-Based Psychological Interventions to Promote Officer Resiliency, S. B. Stern & M. Galietta

Chapter 27: Critical Incident Reactions and Early Interventions, S. Best, E. Kirschman, A. Artwohl

Chapter 28: Critical Knowledge for Clinicians Debriefing Critical Incidents in Law Enforcement, J. E. Roland

Chapter 29: The Disconnected Values Model: A Brief Intervention of Improving Healthy Habits and Coping With Stress in Law Enforcement, M.H. Anshel

Chapter 30: Mentally Ill—Crying "Help!" Police & Public Health Prevention, Intervention & Post-vention, D. Rudofossi

Jack Kitaeff, PhD, JD, is a licensed clinical psychologist in the Commonwealth of Virginia. He received his undergraduate education at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, and his graduate psychology education at the State University of New York and the University of Mississippi. He received his law degree from the Antonin Scalia School of Law at George Mason University, and completed a legal clerkship with the United States Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Virginia.

Dr. Kitaeff completed a clinical psychology internship at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and served as a psychologist and Major in the U.S. Army Medical Service Corps. He later became the first police psychologist for the Arlington County Police Department, where he established a pre-employment psychological screening program for all police applicants, and for officers applying for special units such as SWAT, Hostage Negotiations, and VICE. He has been the consulting police psychologist for numerous law enforcement agencies. He has also served as the Director of Psychology for the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Northern Virginia Mental Health Institute. He is an adjunct professor in the Department of Criminology, law and Society at George Mason University, and an adjunct professor with the George Washington University Department of Psychology. He is also a contributing faculty member in the School of Psychology at Walden University. He is a Diplomate in Police Psychology from the Society of Police and Criminal Psychology, a Fellow in the American College of Legal Medicine, and a member of the American Psychological Association. He maintains a private practice in clinical psychology in Fairfax, Virginia.