ABSTRACT
Military clinical psychologists share a long and distinguished legacy of service in support of military personnel and the nation (Budd & Kennedy, 2006). At the present time, approximately 500 uniformed (active-duty) psychologists are employed around the globe in medical centers, outpatient clinics, forward-deployed combat stress units, ships at sea, and in areas ravaged by national disasters (Johnson, 2015). Increasingly, military psychologists are embedded within a military unit, which means that they are deployed with the unit to combat theaters and are simultaneously a uniform-wearing member of the unit and a mental health provider (Johnson, Ralph, & Johnson, 2005). The military psychologist’s dual identities as provider and military officer as well as his or her embedded status within a war-fighting unit means that, quite often, multiple relationships are ubiquitous to the practice of clinical psychology in the military.
