Military Psychology Careers in Colorado - CO

By an allied health world contributing writer
Published: January, 7 2010

As stated by todaysmilitary.com, psychology plays a crucial role in discovering national defense mechanisms, improvement in military training, finding more advanced and safer equipment designs, and accumulating a large array of job tasks. The core duty for this area of psychology is to help military personnel cope with the stresses of being a soldier, and to provide the needed treatment according to their diagnosis.

Other responsibilities held by a military psychologist in Colorado could include:

• Administering information and compiling research on the behavior, emotions, and thinking processes of military personnel and/or animals
• Organizing research on the aptitude of knowledge of the military’s soldiers and job performances
• Conducting psychological assessment testing and concluding diagnoses
• Providing treatment of the patients in accordance with the diagnosis
• Conveying experiments for specific equipment construction, work procedures, and training courses
• Implementation of research reports on their findings
• Researching projects being performed by outside sources

Military Bases in Colorado:

US Air Force Academy
402 Pinion Dr.
Colorado Springs, CO 80840
(719) 333-8723

Buckley Air National Guard Base
18500 E. 6th Ave
Aurora, CO 80011
(303) 677-9011

Fort Carson
6101 Wetzel Dr.
Fort Carson, CO 80913
(719) 526-1241

Cheyenne Mountain Air Station
1 Norad Rd, #101
Colorado Springs, CO 80914
(719) 474-1110

Peterson Air Force
559 Vincent St.
Colorado Springs, CO 80914
(719) 554-7321

Schriever Air Force Base
301 O’Malley Ave, Suite 37
Schriever Air Force Base, CO 80912
(719) 567-5040

VA Hospitals in Colorado:

VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System (ECHCS)
105 Clermont St.
Denver, CO 80220
(303) 399-8020

Boulder Vet Center
2336 Canyon Blvd., Suite #103
Boulder, CO 80230
(303) 440-7306

Denver Vet Center
7465 E. First Ave., Suite B
Denver, CO 80230
(303) 326-0645

Grand Junction VA Medical Center
2472 F. Road Unit 16
Grand Junction, CO 81501
(970) 242-0731

Pueblo (Colorado Springs) Vet Center
509 E. 13th St., Rm 18
Pueblo, CO 81001
(719) 553-1000