forensic

Resume/Vita

GARY S. AUMILLER, PH.D.

DIPLOMATE IN POLICE AND CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY

750 Veterans Memorial Highway

Hauppauge, NY  11788

(631) 724-5522  FAX (631) 724-5546    EMAIL:  SINEATER@MSN.COM

 

 

EDUCATION:

 

     GRADUATE:

                 Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York 11550

                        Ph.D. 12/83 Clinical Psychology (APA Approved, graduated with distinction)

                        M.A. June, 1981 School Psychology

                       

      UNDERGRADUATE:  

                University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Ind. 46556

      A.B. (Bachelors) May, 1978 Arts and Letters Pre-Professional Program

                                    Psychology Major

  

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND AWARDS:

 

Premio Psyche Prize Winner – Yearly International Award given by Minister of Interior

            in Italy for Outstanding Contribution to the Discipline of Psychology

Book called Red Flags: How to Know When You Are Dating a Loser                                           published by Plume (Viking Penguin), September, 1999 (regional bestseller)

Book called Keeping It Simple:  Sorting Out What Really Matters in Your Life 

            published by Adams Publishing, August, 1995 (regional bestseller)

            Book called Walk Like a Chameleon: Use Your Animal Instincts to Improve Your

                Relationships and Life published by Plume (Viking Penguin),  August, 2001

Three National book tours

Books published in German, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Japanese. Portuguese and Korean

President of Society of Police and Criminal Psychology 1999, 2004 President

            Currently Executive Director for three years  

Editor of the Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 1999

One of fourty-three international Diplomates in Police Psychology

Author of over 60 articles in magazines or professional journals

Appeared on over 135 national and local TV, and radio shows 

Regular Guest Commentator on Court TV                                        

Lecturer at the FBI National Academy, Quanitco, Virginia          

            Motivational and keynote speaker for over 350 corporations, police departments

                        conventions and federal agencies

            National lecturer for American Health Institute on Trauma Survival

            Consultant to FBI Behavioral Sciences Unit, Employee Assistance Program, Stress Issues

                        in Law Enforcement Program, EEO Recruiting and Hostage Rescue Team

            Chris Hatcher Vision Award for Police and Criminal Psychology – October, 2005

            National Science Foundation Antarctica Program consultant and evaluator

            INTERPOL Consultant, International Police Force in Bosnia, US Federal Military

                        and Policing organizations

            Consultant to Numerous Police Departments and Federal Agencies on Disasters such as

World Trade Center I and II, Flight 800, Waco, Italian Mud Slides, Oklahoma City

            Motivational speaker to FBI Field Offices for All-Employee Conferences

            Consultant to International Assoc. for Chiefs of Police and FBI on Domestic Violence

            Psychological Representative on Board for Suicide in Law Enforcement Conference,

                        FBI Academy, September, 1999

            State of New York Law Guardian Panel – Forensic Psychologist Expert    

            Forensic consultant and evaluator in child custody and child abuse cases

            Consultant and Testimony on numerous court cases regarding trauma, police issues,

                        brutality, alcohol abuse, and violent criminal acts including high profile cases

            Certified School Psychologist – ran group therapy program in Harborfields

                        School District used as a model by NY State Education Department

            Co-organizer for Suicide Conference at FBI Academy, September, 1999

            Co-organizer for Domestic Violence Conference at FBI Academy, September, 1997

            Consultant to Surgeon Generals Office on Suicide in Law Enforcement

            Consultant to United Nations on Bosnia peacekeeping force

            National Hostage Negotiator Association Competition Judge          

            Awarded "Man of the Year" by University of Notre Dame Alumni Association

            United States Postal Service debriefing team after shootings and other incidents

            Consultant to Italian National Police Physicians

            Writer, panelist and consultant on the Afterburn: Police as Victims of Violent Crime

                        International Teleconference, 1997

            Writer, panelist and consultant to The Rusting Badge:  The Need for Police Chaplaincy

                        International Teleconference, 1998

             Consultant Pennsylvania State/Marworth Treatment Center for Substance Abuse in

                        Physicians and Police Officers

            Psychologist Representative to Police Chaplain Association

            Psychologist Representative for International Managers of Police Academy

                        and College Training

            Consultant to numerous electronic and written media including National Public Radio,

New York Newsday, Good Day New York, New York Times, CNN, Fox News, CBS News, ABC News, The       National Enquirer, etc. on news events such as, the OJ Simpson Trial, Atlanta Olympic Bombing, World Trade Center Bombing, and TWA Flight 800 Crash

            Consultant to Orion Pictures and Miramax Films on police movies   Screenplay

            Disco!! The Final Dance feature movie produced for video release -- 5/99           

            Won best supporting actor in national film festival for acting role in Columbia Pictures

                        movie Murdered Innocence

           

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:  

Society of Police and Criminal Psychology – President, 1999, 2004

            Current Executive Director

            International Association for the Chiefs of Police 

                        Executive Board and Officer, 1995-1999

            National Black Police Association

            National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives

            American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers

            International Law Enforcement and Criminalistics Academy, Rome, Italy

                        Board Member, American Representative

            International Managers of Police Academy and College Training

 

WORK EXPERIENCE:

    

May, 1989 to present

Director/Psychologist/Consultant.  Law Enforcement Psychological Services.  Hauppauge, N.Y.  Direct and supervise programs for various Police and Corrections unions.  Individual and group therapy.  Organize and present educational programs for police departments, and therapists.  Devise prevention programs for domestic violence, alcoholism and suicide.  Conduct court evaluations for custody, criminal and civil cases.  Consult on psychological autopsies, criminal profiling and workplace violence evaluations.  Work with FBI, US. Postal Department and Naval Criminal Intelligence Services on aftermath debriefings and stress reduction programs.  Nationwide consultations and speaking to police departments and industry.  Speaking around the country to police departments.

 

May, 1993 to December, 1995

Adjunct Staff.  "On-Site Academy", Gardener, Massachusetts.  Serve as a on-going therapy consultant on the staff of a in patient center for police officers and emergency services workers that are suffered post traumatic stress disorder.  Serve as a trainer for  professional personnel that wish to work with police and EMS workers.

           

August, 1985 to May, 1989

Executive Director. Center for Professional Counseling.  Hauppauge, N.Y.  Directed and established programs for clients.  Supervise therapy to all adolescents and all group counseling.  Organize approaches to corporate and union contracts for employee assistance programs.

 

June, 1987 to December, 1989

Director of Psychology.  Suffolk Developmental Center.  Smithtown, New York.  Head Department of Psychology.  Supervise all services for child population.  Reorganize Center's daily care programs.

 

October, 1982 to June 1988

Supervising School Psychologist.  Harborfields High School.  Organized a community mental health program in a school district.  This involved engaging over 50 per cent of a high school children in counseling with a psychologist, with close to thirty per cent of a population in on-going counseling groups.  Devise programs for drug and alcohol abuse and suicide prevention. Directed the expansion of a community mental health program into middle school and elementary levels.  These programs were established as "model" programs New York Department of Education.

 

September, 1982 to June, 1983

Intern Psychologist.  Sagamore Children's Center, Melville, NY.  Function as a supervised psychologist performing evaluation, individual therapy, group therapy, family therapy, and arranging disposition of child and adolescent population.  Additional responsibilities include teaching and reorganizing parent training program and anger control program.

 

September, 1981 to June 1983

Intern Psychologist.  Psychological Evaluation and Research Center, Hofstra University.  Therapy and evaluation services for clinic clients.  Therapy styles include cognitive behavioral therapy, behavior therapy, educational counseling, play therapy and client centered therapy.

 

September, 1981 to June, 1982

School Psychology Intern.  St. Christopher's Brooklyn, New York.  Provide psychological services to group home program for retarded adolescents and adults including training of staff performing behavioral intervention programs, supervising of child care staff, psychological evaluations, consultations to school programs.

 

September, 1981 to June, 1982

School Psychology Intern.  Freeport High School, Freeport, NY.  Function as a supervised school psychologist in evaluation, counseling, classroom interventions, and representation at Committee on the Handicapped for a high school population.

Sept., 1980  to June 1981

Graduate Assistant. University Placement Services.   Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY.  Career guidance and counseling of graduating college seniors. Assisted in corporate recruiting program and the data analysis of program effectiveness.

 

June, 1979  to August, 1981

 

Montgomery General Hospital,  Olney, Maryland

Psychiatric Evaluation Specialist.  Crisis counseling, evaluation, and disposition of persons requesting help at hospital and community mental health center.  Consultation to medial and chemical dependence unit of hospital.  Teaching of inservice staff training and facilitating adolescent group therapy program.

Alcohol/Drug Counselor.  Attend to counseling and group therapy needs of patients on chemical dependence units of hospital.

Psychiatric Technician.  Attend to physical and therapeutic needs of patients on an inpatient psychiatric hospital ward.

 

September, 1977 to December, 1977

Administrative and Teaching Assistant.  Berrien County Juvenile Court Services, St. Joseph's, Michigan.  Archival research for Director of Juvenile Services, and served as teaching assistant in juvenile detention center.

 

May, 1977 to September, 1977

Youth Outreach Counselor.  Montgomery County Recreation Department, Silver Spring, Maryland.  Provided outreach counseling and alternative recreational activity to street youth during the summer.          


 

 

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION: 

           

            Diplomate in Police and Criminal Psychology

                        Society of Police and Criminal Psychology

 

            License in Psychology

                        New York State, February, 1984

 

          Permanent Certificate in School Psychology

                        New York State, August, 1981.

 

            Certified Alcoholism/Drug Counselor

                        Maryland, April, 1980

               

            Certificate in Rational Emotive Therapy

                        Institute for Rational Emotive Therapy

                        New York, New York  January 1983

 

RESEARCH  & PRESENTATIONS:

           

            State of Education in Police Psychology:  Setting Up an International Consortium to

                                    Teach the Science

                        Society for Police and Criminal Psychology, September, 2007

                        International Association for the Chief of Police, October 2007      

 

            Issues in Forensic Psychology: What Every Lawyer Should Know, Suffolk Academy of

                        Law, November, 2006.

 

            Undercover Policing in and International Context – Orvieto, Italy  July 2006

 

            Daubert-Frye Challenges in Court/Matrimonial Commission and Forensics, Family Court

                         Commission -- East End of LI,  March 2006

 

            Answering Daubert-Frye Challenges, 2005, pending presentation Society for Police and

                         Criminal Psychology, October 2005.

 

            Daubert-Frye Challenges in Court, Family Court Commission – Islip, September, 2005

 

            Red Flags!! How to Know You are Dating a Loser.  NYPD Women in Policing

                        Conference.  6/2005

 

            Getting Away with Murder:  What People are Dying for You to Know.  Congresso

                        Internationale, Rome, Italy. Society for Police and Criminal Psychology.

 

            Stress in Law Enforcement:  The Need for Simplicity.  Congresso

                        Internationale, Rome, Italy. Society for Police and Criminal Psychology.

 

            Domestic Violence and the Forensic Evaluation.  Suffolk Academy of Law. 3/2004.

 

            Custody Evaluations in Court.  Suffolk Bar Association 10/2004

 

            Law Enforcement Stress.  Various sites across Italy, England and France.

 

            Passion:  The Emotion between Heaven and Hell:  Corpus Christi, Texas.  Society for

                        Police and Criminal Psychology.

 

            Walk Like a Chameleon.  Animal patterns that affect your life.  Various Locations across

                        the country.

 

            Recovering from the Ashes.  Police Academy Recruit, 12/01.

                        Ceremony for survivors of 911, New York City

                        Cop2Cop. Ceremony for 9/11,  9/11/02

 

            Presentations to over 400 police departments, court systems, hospitals and corporations                            

regarding simplifying lifestyles, trauma recovery  1993- Present, frequent keynote

                        speaker

 

            Presentations of Leadership and Followership Program to over 35 companies or

                        conventions as a keynote speaker

 

Violence Program for School Superintendent Conference days taught or scheduled in

            various NY School Districts

 

            Keynote Speaker or Emcee at over 135 conventions, or awards dinners

 

            "Trauma Survival: Overcoming the Emotional Scarring"

                        42 presentations for American Health Institute,

                        FBI Symposiums -- Present

 

            Domestic Violence and the Police Abuser.  International Association for Chiefs of Police.

                        Phoenix Arizona.

 

            Suicide in Police Officers.  International Association for Chief of Police.  Salt Lake City,

                        Utah.

 

            “A Formula for Prediction and Treatment of Police Suicide” –

                        FBI Conference on Police Suicide – September, 1999

                        Society of Police and Criminal Psychology – October, 1999

 

            “Two Steps Forward, Three Back: The Current State of Police Psychology” –

                        Society of Police and Criminal Psychology – October, 1998

                        International Association of Chiefs of Police – October 1998

 

            “A Survival paradigm for the Treatment of Police Officer Domestic Abusers”

                        FBI Symposium on Domestic Violence in Law Enforcement, Sept, 1998

 

            "Incidence and Treatment of Domestic Violence in the Police Family"

                        International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference, Orlando, 1997                           

            "What We Can Learn from the Great Motivators, Artists, Poets, Authors, and

                        Entertainers about Being Better Leaders and Psychologists"

                        Consortium of Police Psychological Services Conference, 1997

                        Society of Police and Criminal Psychology

 

            "Zen and the Art of the Police Organization:  Bringing Spirituality into Policing."

                        FBI Symposium on the Police Organization  Quantico, Virginia   January, 1995

           

            "When to Retire:  A Test for that Final Police Decision" --

                        Society of Police and Criminal Psychology Convention

                        Madison, Wisconsin  October, 1994.

 

            "Using the Critical Incident Stress Debriefing Model for Therapy with the Divorcing

                         Officer"         

                        Society of Police and Criminal Psychology Convention

                                    Madison, Wisconsin  October., 1994.

                        International Association of the Chiefs of Police

                                    Albuquerque, New Mexico   October, 1994

                                                           

            "Simplifying Life as a College Student"

                        Various Colleges, 1993- present

 

            "Simple Therapy: An approach to therapy with police officers"

                        Society of Police and Criminal Psychology, New Orleans,1993

                        International Association for Chiefs of Police

                        Various (47) FBI field offices across the country

 

            "Let’s Make It Simple"  FBI Symposium for Police Families

                        Quantico, VA  1993

 

            "How to look for a good therapist to work with police officers"

                        Metropolitan Police Conference, Atlantic City, 1992

           

            "Ten reason why cops are different psychologically"

                        Metropolitan NY Police Departments, Atlantic City, 1991

 

            "Recognizing the alcohol problem in police officers"

                        Various police departments and unions, 1990                       

           

            "The outdoors and mental health"

                        Various sites for Boy Scouts of America, 1988 - 1989

 

            "Ten Myths of Adolescents"

                        Various school districts in New York, 1985 -- 87

           

            "Combining Behavioral Modification Training and Emotional Control Training for

                         Parents" -- doctoral dissertation, Hofstra University

            

"Classical Conditioning of Hypnotic Susceptibility" -- Masters project, Hofstra

            University

           

            "A Functional Analysis Model of the Mental Status Examination" -- Master's Project

                         East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina

 

"Assessment of Organizational Style as a Personality factor in Job Selection."

           University of Notre Dame

 

RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS - PAID

 

Walk Like a Chameleon:  Use your Animal Instincts to Control Your Relationships and Your Life.  Book published by Plume Books (Penguin Putnam) August, 2001, NY, NY.  Book addresses naturally occurring spontaneous survival instincts in humans through using metaphors from nature.  Gives directions on living with what is natural to you.

 

Red Flags!!  How to Know When You’re Dating a Loser.  Book published by Plume Books (Penguin Putnam) September, 1999, NY, NY.  Book covers profiling techniques from police psychology to teach women to make better dating decisions. Chosen as Oprah’s 100 books for new book video channel.  Bestseller lists in America and Japan.

 

Keeping it Simple:  Sorting Out What Really Matters In Your Life.  Holbrook, Mass.: Adams Publishing, Bookstore release August, 1995. Book teaching the process of psychological simplicity in one’s life.  Three weeks on Philadelphia Inquirer non-fiction bestseller list.

 

Aumiller, G.  Simplify Your Life.  Personal Excellence, February, 1996.

 

The Hometown Psychologist Articles – These were a series of 70 weekly syndicated articles sold to small newspapers, all around 750 words dealing with advice on topics of living in a light humorous manner.  The series ran from August, 1993 to June 1994 and appeared in over 40 different newspapers in 22 states, and numerous newsletters in reprint. 

 

Additionally, I have written paid free lance articles for Cosmopolitan, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsday

 

Two book publications are pending:  The Sineater (a forensic psychologist novel for a Penguin Putnam

imprint) and The Psychology of Undercover Policing (for Springer)


 

RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS – PROFESSIONAL OR JOURNAL

 

 

The Police Psychologist Articles – a continuing series of over 40 articles written for police newsletters and newspapers that are distributed in individual police department and unions across the country.  Series is quarterly since 1991 and given free to a membership list.

 

             Aumiller, G. & David Corey (2001).  Police Psychology Core Domains & Proficiencies:  Definitons.

The Journal for Police and Criminal Psychology.  Springer Publishing, New York, Fall, 2007.

 

Aumiller, G. (2001). The Suicide Fomula:  A Strategy for Assessment and Treatment of the Suicidal Patient.   In D. Sheehan (Ed.), Domestic Violence by Police Officers. Washington, DC US Government Printing Office.

 

Aumiller, G. (1999). Treating Officers and Family Members Involved in Domestic Violence Situations:  A Survival Paradigm.   In D. Sheehan (Ed.), Domestic Violence by Police Officers. Washington, DC US Government Printing Office.

 

Aumiller, G. (Summer, !999)  Treatment of Domestic Violence in Police Families: Common Mistakes and Common Sense.  Journal of Violence and Aggression.

 

Aumiller, G. (August 16, 1998)  When the Test Is All Wrong.  Newsday Newspapers.

 

         Aumiller, G.  (October 1998). IACP Guidelines for Officer-Involved Shootings.  The Police Chief.                 

International Association of Chiefs of Police, Alexandria, VA.  (committee chair/author, no byline given)

 

Aumiller, G. (Summer, 1996)  Ten Reasons Cops Are Different.  The Heavy Badge, Heavy Badge Publications, NY.

 

Aumiller, G.  (Summer, 1996)  Rituals.  The Heavy Badge, Heavy Badge Publications, NY.

 

Aumiller, G. (Summer, 1996)  I Hate the Red Dress.  The Heavy Badge, Heavy Badge Publications, NY.

 

 Currently writing a quarterly column on Issues in Forensic Psychology with circulation to

            Lawyers and judges.