Fundamentals of Consulting Psychology Series
Consulting Psychology in National Security Organizations
By Laurie B. Moret and Carroll H. Greene III
This book surveys the rewarding consulting opportunities that await psychologists in national security settings and describes the strategies and skills that are required for succeeding in this unique field.
Ethical dilemmas are also examined, particularly situations in which a psychologist's professional and personal values may be tested by the nature of the work.
Case vignettes bring to life the daily roles and responsibilities of consulting psychologists, highlighting the importance of their contributions and how rewarding this work can be.
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The Ethical Practice of Consulting Psychology
By Rodney L. Lowman and Stewart E. Cooper
This book, based on the APA Ethics Code, reviews the unique ethical issues that psychologists encounter when working as consultants in business and other organizational settings at three levels of practice: individual, group, and organizational.
The authors explore common themes in ethical practice, including informed consent, confidentiality, multiple relationships, conflicts of interest, and competence. They demonstrate how these issues manifest differently in the work environment through vivid case examples that bring to life the concrete work of consulting psychologists.
These informative vignettes teach readers how to negotiate complex challenges, such as when organizational demands and questionable business practices come into conflict with psychologists' ethical responsibilities. Special attention is given to emerging areas of practice, including telepsychology, multinational and multicultural consulting, and coaching.
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Transcultural Competence: Navigating Cultural Differences in the Global Community
By Jerry Glover and Harris L. Friedman
This book provides a framework for addressing cultural conflicts within organizations, not just for consulting and organizational psychology practitioners, but for a broad spectrum of professionals, executives, and community leaders.
Drawing on case studies that illustrate commonly encountered cultural dilemmas in a variety of practice areas, the authors present applications, assessments, and intervention approaches that are prerequisites for gaining transcultural competence, whether as a consultant, organizational leader, or professional in any number of fields dealing with diversity and globalization.
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Learning Interventions for Consultants: Building the Talent That Drives Business
By Manuel London and Thomas Diamante
This book outlines a five-step process for designing and implementing learning interventions for individual employees, teams, and entire organizations. These interventions promote continuous learning, innovation, and organizational growth and productivity.
This process includes conducting a needs analysis, developing a contract that sets reasonable goals and expectations for clients, designing learning methods to meet the organization's needs, implementing the program and tailoring it as needed, and evaluating outcomes to ensure ongoing improvement.
Guidelines for blending new learning technologies — including games and artificial intelligence — with in-person workshops are also reviewed.
Case examples bring these learning methods to life, demonstrating how they are applied in real-world settings.
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An Introduction to Consulting Psychology: Working With Individuals, Groups, and Organizations
By Rodney L. Lowman
This book provides a broad introduction to consulting psychology that reviews assessment and intervention at three levels of competency — individual, group, and organizational — including how these levels interact. The various consulting activities surveyed include:
- screening potential job candidates;
- coaching individuals to help them adapt to new roles and manage relationships with colleagues;
- evaluating and improving work group dynamics, such as communication patterns; and
- working with different organizational cultures to enhance system-wide processes and structures.
Leadership is given special focus as a complex topic that spans all three levels and requires the consultant to consider a host of variables. Multiculturalism and internationalism are also examined as competencies that consulting psychologists must possess in our increasingly globalized society.
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Using Feedback in Organizational Consulting
By Jane Brodie Gregory and Paul E. Levy
This book is an easy-to-use resource that applies classic and current research findings to create actionable, evidence-based tactics that consulting psychologists, consultants, managers, and human resources personnel can use to improve feedback exchanges in any work environment. The authors present a simple and straightforward model of the feedback process that includes four critical elements that can make or break a feedback exchange:
- the actions and behaviors of the feedback provider,
- the content of the message,
- the beliefs and perceptions of the feedback recipient, and
- the context in which feedback is provided.
Each chapter includes a case example that highlights key takeaways from the research and illustrates how consultants can apply these concepts and strategies in real scenarios.
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This book series covers specific, fundamental skill sets needed to practice in the area of consulting psychology in short, accessible but evidence-based texts. The books in the series are useful both as stand-alone volumes and in combination with one another. Both students and practitioners who are interested in consulting psychology will find the books valuable.
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Coaching Psychology: Catalyzing Excellence
in Organizational Leadership
Coaching Psychology: Catalyzing Excellence in Organizational Leadership brings evidence-based methods and models to the practice of leadership coaching for professional and personal growth. The authors apply these tools with the aim of developing and improving the skills clients need to assume and/or be more effective in leadership positions in organizations.
This concise guide offers psychologists a comprehensive overview of coaching psychology, from initial client contact to the conclusion of the engagement. It describes the assortment of tools coaching psychologists use, including models to guide the process; didactic exercises and other homework that requires self-reflection, video clips, journaling, and assessment inventories; and key stakeholder feedback for identifying the individual’s great strengths (their platform for achieving their best Leader self) and suggested areas for improvement.
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By Vicki V. Vandaveer and Michael H. Frisch
Forensic Organizational Consulting
Skilled forensic consulting psychologists help clients prepare for courtroom trials. This book helps psychologists understand the demands of this challenging yet deeply rewarding field.
Forensic psychologists may be hired to participate in jury selection and witness preparation, organize mock trials and focus groups to test arguments, provide expert testimony and psychological evaluation, and conduct posttrial interviews that yield useful information for future cases.
Experienced forensic psychologists can anticipate probable jury or bench trial outcomes and can advise the lawyers they work with to settle, dismiss, or proceed with litigation. This vignette‐filled, insider’s look at the rewards and challenges of forensic consulting includes nuanced discussion of the ethical challenges that consultants must navigate as part of their work.
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By Jay M. Finkelman
Consulting to Technical Leaders, Teams, and Organizations: Building Leadership in STEM Environments
This book presents a rich discussion of the opportunities organizational consultants have to impact the development of technical leaders, teams, and organizations.
The expansion of the tech sector has revolutionized how processes are conducted in almost every realm, from farming to medicine to communication to retail and so much more. The role of technical leaders has evolved from supporting organizational functions to creating and leading corporations, many with worldwide impact. This boom in the technology industry has brought along unique challenges and opportunities for organizational consultants.
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By Joanie B. Connell
Assessing CEOs and Senior Leaders
Assessment of executive and senior-level positions requires special consideration. Executive assessment is a specialized application of individual psychological assessment that is focused on executive and senior leadership positions. This population warrants special consideration because of the large and lasting impact they have on the health and vitality of an organization. Hiring or promotional mistakes can be costly.
Written for graduate students, practitioners, and other professionals interested in better understanding or working with this population, this book provides an overview of the theory and practice of senior leadership assessment, the contexts in which such assessment frequently takes place, and the tools and methods often used. This text also covers complicated ethical issues and considerations for future directions of these assessments.
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By J. Ross Blankenship
Essential Strategies for Organizational and Systems Change
By H. Skipton Leonard, Richard R. Kilburg, and Arthur M. Freedman
Skilled forensic consulting psychologists help clients prepare for courtroom trials. This book helps psychologists understand the demands of this challenging yet deeply rewarding field.
Essential Strategies for Organizational and Systems Change provides conceptual and operational descriptions of the major approaches to the field of organizational and systems change (O/SC). It describes a variety of strategies and principles involved in O/SC, including general systems theory, chaos and complexity theory, organizational development and change management, organizational and personal learning, psychodynamics and covert processes, and emerging areas of interest including the integration of positive psychology, appreciative inquiry, behavioral theory, and neuropsychology into the practice of O/SC.
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