Military Psychology and Leadership Development
Contents: 1. Hardiness and the Military Human Resources Cycle/Salvatore Lo Bue. 2. Coping and Well-being: A Study of Brazilian Military in Preparation Phase of Peacekeeping Mission/Carolina Rodrigues Silveira and Maria José Chambel. 3. On Soldiering and Inevitable Psychological Stress Reactions/Jacques J. Gouws1. 4. When a Soldier Kills: Experience of Homicide during Combat/Daniel Strobl. 5. National Resilience as a Security Concept/Merle Parmak. 6. Emotional Intelligence in Armed Forces with an Emphasis on Self Management/Chanchal A.7. Altruism as Self Sacrifice among Military Personnel/Samir Rawat. 8. Resilience among Military Families having Children with Special Needs/Uma S. 9. The Role Psychology in Disaster Management: Lessons from the Indonesian Defense University/Arief Budiarto and Eri Radityawara Hidayat. 10. Selection Method of New Recruits: Overcoming the Language Barrier during Psychological Selection in the Army/Ilfira Temirbulatova. 11. Developments in Leadership Skills Required in Norwegian Armed Forces/Johan Bergh. 12. A Framework for Military Leadership Development/Ole Boe. 13. A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Structure of Tacit Knowledge in Military Leadership/António Rosinha.14. The Diplomatic Psychology: A New Branch of Psychology/Cristian Dobre. 15. The Psychology of Suicide Martyrdom in Afghanistan and its Implications for Psychological Operations/Vasile Marineanu. 16. Family Context as a Factor of Choice and Success in the Military Profession/Anita Pesic. 17. Leadership Training and Contemporary Challenges in Military Leadership of Slovenian Armed Forces/Nataša Troha and Dejan Okoviè.
18. Measuring Implicit and Explicit Motives in Career Officers: Validity and Predictive Value/Can Nakkas and Hubert Annen. 19. Resilience as a Promoter of Positive Post Military Transition/Nicola Paget. 20. Leaders and Ethical Leadership/Yvonne R. Masakowski and Thomas E. Creely.
It is perhaps for the first time ever that a book on military psychology and leadership development has been written by eminent military psychologists from as many as sixteen countries. Many of these practising military psychologists have themselves donned the uniform, serving their own military as well as UN and NATO in diverse operational environments such as Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Haiti, Kosovo, Slovenia, Somalia and closer home in Kargil and the Siachen Glacier in India.
The book offers us a good understanding of various concepts in the field of military psychology and leadership development, be it in context of hardiness as a construct in the human resource cycle or use of coping resources as well as development and management of extreme forms of unwanted stress. The book provides a great deal of inputs related to resilience as an emerging field of study. Other interesting themes cover concepts of altruism, emotional intelligence, disaster management, leadership development and motivation, human factor engineering in operations, psychology of warfare and diplomatic psychology. A very interesting, yet overlooked topic covering role of military families in the Armed Forces is also discussed in the book which brings to light the contribution and sacrifices being made by this neglected population – the military spouse.
The book is designed not only for psychology students and practitioners, but also for leaders – both men and women to cater to all leaders of men and women – seeking knowledge in the field of military psychology and leadership development. (jacket)
