FYI
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From: Ken Pope [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 5:10 PM
To: 'Ken Pope'
Subject: Pope in-press: "Psychologists
& Detainee Interrogations: Key Decisions, Opportunities Lost, & Lessons
Learned" (*Annual Review of Clinical Psychology*)
Involvement in detainee interrogations
presented psychologists with a wide span of complex ethical and practical
challenges.
Taking a fresh look at the profession's
struggles to meet these challenges provides opportunities to learn from the
past, to make unexpected discoveries, and to grow and mature as a profession.
In an article that is now in press in the
*Annual Review of Clinical Psychology*, I brought together primary source
documents and other materials, particularly those that have sometimes been
overlooked.
The article is "Psychologists and
Detainee Interrogations: Key Decisions, Opportunities Lost, and Lessons Learned."
Here's the abstract:
[begin abstract]
After the 9-11 terrorist attacks, U.S.
psychologists faced hard choices about what roles, if any, were appropriate for
psychologists in the detainee interrogations conducted in settings such as the
Bagram Airbase, the Abu Ghraib Prison, and the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camps. The
American Psychological Association (APA) sparked intense controversy with its
policies and public statements. This article reviews APA decisions, documents,
and public statements in this area, in the context of major criticisms and
responses to those criticisms. The review focuses on key issues: how the APA
created and reported policies in the areas of ethics and national security;
transparency; psychologists' professional identities; psychologists'
qualifications; ethical-legal conflicts; policies opposing torture;
interpretations of avoiding harm; and effective interrogations. It suggests
lessons learned, missed opportunities, and questions in need of a fresh
approach.
[end abstract]
A pre-publication version of this article
is available on my web site; however, it is an uncorrected version so there
will be changes to this draft prior to publication in print. The uncorrected pre-publication version is
available at: <http://bit.ly/KenPopePsychologistsAndDetaineeInterrogations>
PLEASE FORWARD THIS ANNOUNCEMENT TO ANY
LISTS OR INDIVIDUALS WHO MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN THIS AREA.
Thanks!
Ken Pope
DISABILITY RESOURCES FOR PSYCHOLOGISTS
& PSYCHOLOGISTS-IN-TRAINING:
"Confidence, like art, never comes
from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the
questions."
--E. G. Stevens