USNA Faculty Profiles: Faculty Profile

W. Brad Johnson, PhD is a professor of psychology in the department of Leadership, Ethics, & Law. He is a clinical psychologist with interests in mentorship, leadership, and professional ethics.

EDUCATION

Summer Institute for Rational‑Emotive Therapy, New York City, 1996

Fellow

Ph.D. Fuller Theological Seminary, Graduate School of Psychology, Pasadena California.

Clinical Psychology, 1991. (APA approved)

Graduate U.S. Naval Officer Indoctrination School, Newport, Rhode Island, 1990.

M.A. Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California. Theology, 1989.

B.A. Whitworth College, Spokane, Washington. Psychology, 1984. Summa Cum Laude

RECENT BOOKS

Johnson, W. B. & Koocher, G. P. (in press). Casebook on ethically challenging work settings in mental health and the behavioral sciences. New York: Oxford University Press.

Barnett, J., & Johnson, W. B. (2009). Ethics desk reference for counselors. . Alexandria, VA: American Counseling Association.

Johnson, W. B., & Ridley, C. R. (2008). The elements of mentoring (revised and updated edition). New York: Palgrave-MacMillan. (first edition, 2004).

Johnson, W. B. & Ridley, C. R. (2008). The elements of ethics. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.

Barnett, J., & Johnson, W. B. (2008). Ethics desk reference for psychologists. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Books.

Johnson, W. B. & Mullen, C. A. (2007). Write to the top: How to become a prolific academic. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.

Johnson, W. B. & Murray, K. (2007). Crazy Love: Dealing with your partner�s personality problem. Atascadero, CA: Impact Press.

Johnson, W. B. (2006). On being a mentor: A guide for higher education faculty. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Johnson, W. B., & Harper, G. (2004). Becoming a leader the Annapolis way. New York: McGraw Hill.

Johnson, W. B., & Ridley, C. R. (2004). The elements of mentoring. New York: Palgrave-MacMillan.

Johnson, W. B., & Huwe, J. M. (2003). Getting Mentored in Graduate School. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Books.

Nielsen, S. L., Johnson, W. B. & Ellis, A. (2001) Counseling and psychotherapy with religious persons: A Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy approach. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

RECENT JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS (selected)

Harden, S. L., Clark, R. A., Johnson, W. B., Larson, J. (2009). Cross-gender mentorship in clinical psychology doctoral programs. An exploratory survey study. Mentoring and Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 17, 275-288.

Kennedy, C. H., & Johnson, W. B. (2009). Mixed agency in military psychology: Applying the American Psychological Association ethics code. Psychological Services, 6.

Johnson, W. B., Elman, N. S. Forrest, L., Robiner, W. N., Rodolfa, E., & Schaffer, J. B. (2008). Addressing professional competence problems in trainees: Some ethical considerations. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 39, 589-599.

Johnson, W. B. (2008). Are advocacy, mutuality, and evaluation incompatible mentoring functions? Mentoring and Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 16, 31-44.

Johnson, W. B. (2008). Top ethical challenges for military clinical psychologists. Military Psychology, 20, 49-62.

Barnett, J. E., Lazarus, A. A., Vasquez, M. J. T., Moorehead-Slaughter, O., & Johnson, W. B. (2007). Boundary issues and multiple relationships: Fantasy and reality. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 38, 401-410.

Ecklund, K., & Johnson, W. B. (2007). The impact of a culture-sensitive intake assessment on the treatment of a depressed biracial child. Clinical Case Studies, 6, 468-482.

Ecklund, K., & Johnson, W. B. (2007). Toward cultural competence in child intake assessments. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 38, 356-362.

Johnson, W. B. (2007). Transformational supervision: When supervisors mentors. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 38, 259-267.

Mullen, C. A., & Johnson, W. B. (2006). Accountability-democracy tensions facing democratic school leaders. Action in Teacher Education, 28, 86-101

Johnson, W. B., Bacho, E. B., Heim, M., & Ralph, J. (2006). Multiple role dilemmas for military mental health care providers. Military Medicine, 171, 311-315.

Johnson, W. B., & Buhrke, R. (2006). Service delivery in a don�t ask don�t tell world: Ethical care of gay, lesbian, and bisexual military personnel. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice., 37, 91-98.

Williams, T., & Johnson, W. B. (2006). Operational psychology and clinical psychology in operational environments: Introduction to the special issue. Military Psychology, 18, 261-268.

Johnson, W. B., Porter, K., Campbell, C. D., & Kupko, E. N. (2005). Character and fitness requirements for professional psychologists: An examination of state licensing application forms. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 36, 654-662.

Ward, Y. L., & Johnson, W. B., & Campbell, C. D. (2004). Clinical-research supervision teams: A model for mentoring in practitioner-focused doctoral programs. The Clinical Supervisor, 23, 179-190.

Johnson, W. B., Ralph, J., & Johnson, S. J. (2005). Managing multiple roles in embedded environments: The case of aircraft carrier psychology. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 36, 73-81.

Johnson, W. B., & Zlotnik, S. (2005). The frequency of advising and mentoring as salient work roles in academic job advertisements. Mentoring and Tutoring, 13, 95-107.

Johnson, W. B., & Campbell, C. D. (2004). Character and fitness requirements for professional psychologists: Training directors� perspectives. Professional Psychology: Research & Practice, 35, 405-411.

Baker, B. T., Hocevar, S., & Johnson, W. B. (2003). The prevalence and nature of service academy mentoring: A study of midshipmen. Military Psychology, 15, 272-282.

Huwe, J. M., & Johnson, W. B. (2003). On being an excellent protege: What graduate students need to know. Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 17, 41-57.

Johnson, W. B. (2003). A framework for evaluating competence to mentor. Ethics & Behavior, 13, 127-151.

Johnson, W. B. (2002) Consulting in the military context: Implications of the revised training guidelines. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, 54, 233-241.

Johnson, W. B. (2002). The intentional mentor: Strategies and guidelines for the practice of mentoring. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 33, 88-96.

Johnson, W. B., & Campbell, C. D. (2002). Character and fitness requirements for professional psychologists: Are there any? Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 33, 46-53

Johnson, W. B., & Huwe, J. M. (2002). Toward a typology of mentorship dysfunction in graduate school. Psychotherapy, 39, 44-55.

RECENT BOOK CHAPTERS (selected)

Shallcross, R. L., Johnson, W. B., & Lincoln, S. H. (in press). Supervision. In J. Thomas & M. Herson (Eds) Handbook of clinical psychology competencies. New York: Springer-Verlag.

Johnson, W. B. (2008). Rational emotive behavior therapy and god image. In G. Moriarty & L. Hoffman (Eds.) God image handbook: Research, theory, and practice. New York: Haworth.

Johnson, W. B. (2007). Student-faculty mentorship outcomes. In T. Allen & L. Ebby (Eds.), Blackwell Handbook of Mentoring: A multiple perspectives approach. (pp. 189-210). London: Blackwell.

Johnson, W. B., Rose, G., & Schlosser, L. (2007). Student-faculty mentoring: Theoretical and methodological issues. In T. Allen & L. Ebby (Eds.), Blackwell Handbook of Mentoring: A multiple perspectives approach (pp. 49-69. London: Blackwell.

Tan, S. Y., & Johnson, W. B. (2005). Spiritually oriented cognitive behavior therapy. In L. Sperry & E. P. Shafranske (Eds.), Spiritually-oriented psychotherapy, (pp. 77-103). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Books.

Gray, P., & Johnson, W. B. (2005). Mentoring and its assessment. In S. L. Tice, N. Jackson, L. Lambert & P. Englot (Eds.), University teaching: A reference guide for graduate students and faculty (2^nd ed.) (pp. 217-224). Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.

INVITED LECTURES (Selected)

American Psychological Association (Washington, DC)

American Public Transportation Association Headquarters (Washington, DC)

Annual Midwest Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program Conference (Oberlin, OH)

Bristol-Myers Squibb Leadership Team (Annapolis, MD)

Center for Deployment Psychology (Bethesda, MD)

Commander Naval Air Force (CNAF)-U.S. Pacific Fleet (San Diego, CA)

Commander Naval Air Force (CNAF)-U.S. Atlantic Fleet (Jacksonville, FL)

Commander of the Pacific Fleet staff (Pearl Harbor, HI)

Council of Scientific Society Presidents (Washington, DC)

Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)

Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, DC)

Dickinson School of Law, Penn State University (Carlisle, PA)

Federally Employed Women National Conference (Orlando, FL)

Gonzaga University (Spokane, WA)

Greenville South Carolina University Hospital System (Greenville, SC)

Harvard University, School of Public Health (Boston, MA)

Human Capital Institute (nationwide broadcast)

Loyola College of Maryland (Baltimore, MD)

Malcolm Grow Medical Center, Andrews Air Fore Base (Washington, DC)

National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, MD)

National Library of Medicine (Bethesda, MD)

National Naval Medical Center (Bethesda, MD)

Navy/Coast Guard Women's Leadership Symposium (Arlington, VA)

Pine Rest Mental Health Services (Grand Rapids, MI)

Royal Norwegian Naval Academy (Bergen, Norway)

St. Norbert College (Green Bay, WI)

The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (Bethesda, MD)

University of Colorado Denver (Denver, CO)

University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM)

University of Rochester-School of Medicine and Dentistry (Rochester, NY)

U. S. Air Force Behavioral Health Sciences Symposium (San Antonio, TX)

U.S. Naval Space Warfare Command (San Diego, CA)

U. S. Naval War College (Newport, RI)

U. S. Naval Personnel Command (Washington, DC)

U. S. Public Health Service (nationwide broadcast)

USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) (Lecture given to all officers on U.S. air craft carrier).

Washington Assessment and Therapy Services (Washington, DC)

Whitman College (Walla Walla, WA)

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Professor of Psychology: United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD. December 1998 to present.

Teach a range of undergraduate psychology courses to Naval Academy Midshipmen in the Department of Leadership, Ethics and Law. Developed curriculum and custom text for a core course in Leadership and Human Behavior. Serve on the Faculty Senate Assessment Committee and the Naval Academy Research Council. Supervise military faculty members in the psychology section and provide training to leadership instructors in the department's leadership section. Assistant to Associate Professor with tenure, 2003, Full Professor, 2009.

Faculty Associate: Johns Hopkins University, Graduate School of Business and Education, Baltimore, MD. Summer 2001 to present:

Teach clinical and counseling psychology courses to Graduate students in community-clinical and counseling psychology Master�s programs. Courses include Diagnosis, Group Therapy, and Brief Therapy

Visiting Associate Professor of Psychology: United States Naval Post-Graduate School, Monterey, CA. 1999 to 2006.

Teach a course on Theories of Counseling and Supervise Master�s thesis projects in the Post-Graduate school�s Master�s program in Leadership and Human Resources Management.

Adjunct Faculty: Dickinson College Leadership in Conflict Initiative, Carlisle, PA. Summer 2005.

Assistant Professor of Psychology and Director of Research: George Fox University, Graduate School of Clinical Psychology, Newberg, OR. August 1994 to December, 1998.

Tenure track faculty appointment in an APA-approved clinical psychology doctoral program. Taught courses in Personality Assessment, Outcome Evaluation, Legal/Ethical Issues, and Psychotherapy with Men. Taught an undergraduate course in Abnormal Psychology. Supervised graduate students in practicum and pre‑internship phases of clinical training. Chaired doctoral dissertation committees. Appointed Director of Research for Doctoral Program. Participated in preparation for and achievement of APA accreditation of doctoral program. Chaired the Curriculum Revision Committee.

Adjunct Professor of Psychology: Chaminade University, Honolulu, HI. January 1993 to January 1994.

Taught upper division undergraduate courses for the department of Social Sciences, Chaminade University. Courses included History and Systems of Psychology, The Psychology of Small Groups, and Abnormal Psychology.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

American Psychological Association, Ethics Committee: January 2006 to December 2008. Member (2006), vice-chair (2007), chair (2008).

American Psychological Association, Society for Military Psychology: August 2004 to August 2005.

President of Society for Military Psychology (Division 19). (served as president-elect in 2003-2004 and past-president 2005-2006). Served as Member-at-large 2002-2003.

American Psychological Association, Society for Military Psychology: August 2002 to August 2004.

Appointed Convention Program Chairperson for a two-year term. Organized and oversaw the submission and review process for divisional programming at the annual national convention.

Oregon Board of Bar Examiners: Portland, Oregon. February 1997 to December 1998.

Appointed by Oregon Supreme Court as public member of the Board of Bar Examiners. Administer Bar Exam and participated in evaluation of applicants to the state Bar. Conducted hearings to determine character and fitness of questionable Bar applicants.

HONORS

2009 Elected Fellow, Society of Clinical Psychology (APA, Division 12)

2009 Gersoni Award for outstanding contributions to military psychology (American Psychological Association).

2008 Recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award, Graduate School of Education, Johns Hopkins University.

2004 Elected Fellow, American Psychological Association

1995 Awarded Navy Commendation Medal for service at Pearl Harbor Naval Base

1991 Awarded National Defense Medal and Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation for service during Persian Gulf War.

1989 Western Psychological Association Student Scholarship Award for outstanding research.

1988 Lee Edward Travis Award for empirical integration of psychology and theology, Fuller Theological Seminary.

PROFILE

EDUCATION

RECENT JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS (selected)

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

HONORS