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Dr. Asken is involved with the selection and training of police cadets and officers for special assignments. He has also trained firefighters, EMS and other emergency personnel. He has written articles for The Tactical Edge, the Crisis Negotiator, The Firearms Instructor and FireHouse magazine.
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Those who place themselves in harm’s way are consistently told to focus, concentrate and utilize the survival mind set. However, rarely, or inconsistently, are they trained HOW to accomplish this. It is often assumed that mental toughness will automatically result from physical and tactical training. This is not always true, but mental toughness skills can be trained directly. All the books in this series; MindSighting for police officers; Emotional Intel for police negotiators and Warrior Performance for military leaders and personnel all describe psychological techniques and training to develop mental toughness, the survival mind set and a hardened focus. Designed to be used by individuals, the books are also instructor-friendly and ideal as part of any training program or class. They are designed to be integrated with physical and tactical training to add a dimension that is often overlooked and to promote maximal performance excellence. About the AuthorDr. Michael Asken is the psychologist for the Pennsylvania State Police where he is involved with selection and training of Troopers. He functions as the psychologist for the PSP Special Emergency Response Team. He is on the Editorial Board of the The FireArms Instructor. He has written articles for The Crisis Negotiatior, The Bulletin of the Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police, and the FireArms Instructor. He is an instructor for Top Gun undercover narcotics agent training. Mike holds a B.A. degree in Social & Behavioral Sciences from the Johns Hopkins University. He completed his doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology with a minor in Medical Psychology and served his internship at the East Orange (New Jersey) Veterans’ Administration Hospital. In relation to human performance, Mike is a Fellow of the Division of Sport and Exercise Psychology of the American Psychological Association. He taught the sport psychology course at Lebanon Valley College where he was awarded the Nevelyn Knisely Award for Inspired Teaching. He was involved in training physicians, intensive care nurses, neonatal intensive care nurses and nurse anesthetists for twenty five years. Mike has worked on maximizing performance with athletes at the youth, high school, collegiate and professional levels. He was the sport psychologist or two professional soccer teams, the Hershey Wildcats and the Harrisburg Heat, as well as the semi-pro football team, the Harrisburg Patriots. He is a co-editor of the book: Sport Psychology: The Psychological Health of the Athlete and wrote Dying to Win: Preventing Drug Abuse in Sport. Mike was the psychologist consultant to the Camp Hill Fire Department and has worked with other local departments including Harrisburg City. He was an instructor at the Fire Training Academy at Harrisburg Area Community College. He has written the book: PsycheResponse: Psychological Skills for Emergency Responders. He was the Fire Psychology columnist for FireHouse magazine. He is involved with cadet performance issues at the Pennsylvania State Police Academy. | MindSighting Copyright © 2006 Garnetta Sullivan, Sullivan Creative. All Rights Reserved. All text, graphics, HTML and contents of this web site are protected by US and International copyright laws and may not be reproduced or distributed in any manner without the explicit permission of Sullivan Creative. This page was created and is maintained by Sullivan Creative. Contact Sullivan Creative. |