Stephen F. Curran, Ph.D. is the founder and President of Atlantic OccuPsych’s parent company, Greenside Psychological Associates, Inc. Dr. Curran provides forensic and psychological services; is a consulting police psychologist to Federal, County and local law enforcement agencies; provides traumatic stress intervention to victims and survivors of workplace trauma; provides educational training/intervention to employees of high risk businesses on topics of stress and fear management; and is the Program Coordinator for the U.S. Postal Inspection Service’s confidential counseling program.

• American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
• American Correctional Association (ACA)
• American Psychological Association (APA)
• APA Police and Public Safety (Division #18),
• APA Law Society (Division #41)
• International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP)
• Society of Police and Criminal Psychology

The following are some of Dr. Curran’s publications, presentations, and papers:

• Curran, S.F. (2010). “Public Safety Services” chapter in Earning a Living Outside of Managed Care: Fifty Ways to Expand Your Practice; Walfish, S., Editor, American Psychological Association - APA Books.
• Curran, S.F. (2010, August 11). Looking Back to the Future - Developing and Administering Psychological Services in Police and Fire Departments, Panel Participant, Division #18 Workshop, American Psychological Association, San Diego, California.
• “Psychological Assessment Protocols for Evaluating Military Personnel Returning from Combat Operations” presentation for the 115th Annual Convention of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), Police Psychological Services Section, San Diego, CA; Nov. 9, 2008
• “Results and Implications from a 2007 Survey of Police/Forensic Psychologists: Fitness for Duty Assessment Procedures” presentation for the International Association of Chiefs of Police, Police Psychological Services Section, San Diego, CA; Nov. 9, 2008
• “Psychological Issues Affecting Returning Veterans” presentation at the Maryland Police Chiefs’ Annual Meeting, Ocean City, MD; Sep. 9, 2008
• “Current Practices Conducting Pre-employment and Fitness for Duty Evaluations” moderator and presenter at the Division 18 - Police and Public Safety Section of the American Psychological Association; presented at the Boston Police Dept., Boston, MA; Aug. 13, 2008
• “Employment Evaluations of Veterans of Iraq/Afghanistan Combat Operations” workshop presentation at the Consortium of Police Psychological Services (COPPS), Miami, FL; May 15, 2008
• “Fitness for Duty Evaluations of Public Safety Personnel”; workshop presentation (3 hours) sponsored by The University of Minnesota Press and Pearson Assessments, La Jolla, CA; Feb. 15, 2008
• “Warrior Ethos: Psychological Aspects of Combat”; keynote speaker; presented at the Trauma and Resilience Workshop sponsored by the University of Maryland at Baltimore and the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Administration, Baltimore, MD; Jun. 8, 2007
• “Deployment Issues for Families and Children”; workshop presentation sponsored by The Pro Bono Counseling Project, Baltimore, MD, Dec. 8, 2006
• “Warrior Transition by Army Reserve and National Guard Personnel from Combat Operations in Iraq to Policing in the United States”; workshop presentation at the 113th Annual Convention of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, Police Psychological Services Section, Boston, MA; Oct. 14, 2006; Curran, S.F. and Ritchie, E.C.
• “Commentary: Psychological Evaluation of Public Safety Applicants: The 2004 Revised Guidelines of the Police Psychological Services Section”, 2005; Curran, S.F. and Saxe-Clifford, S.; www.policepsych.com/revision_process.php
• “Pre-employment Psychological Evaluations: Revised IACP Guidelines”; workshop presentation at the 111th Annual Convention of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, Los Angeles, CA; Nov. 15, 2004; Curran, S.F. and Saxe-Clifford, S.
• “Fitness for Duty Evaluations of Public Safety Personnel”; workshop presentation (3 hours) at Pearson Assessments Public Safety Workshop, Los Angeles, CA; Jan. 31, 2004
• “Ethics and Fitness for Duty Employment Evaluations”; workshop presentation (3 hours) at the Maryland Psychological Association Annual Convention, Baltimore, MD; Oct. 10, 2003
• “Employment Selection and Psychological Testing Issues as Understood by Mock Jurors”; poster session presented at the Psychology & Law Interdisciplinary Conference, 2003, Edinburgh, Scotland, Jul. 10, 2003; Curran, S.F. and LaFon, D.
• “Separating Fact from Fiction about Police Stress”; Behavioral Health Management (pages 38-40) Jan./Feb. 2003
• “Pre-employment Medical and Psychological Evaluations”; presented at the 109th Annual Convention of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, Minneapolis, MN; Oct. 7, 2002
• “Barriers to Effective Mental Health Interventions that Reduce Suicide by Police Officers”; Suicide and Law Enforcement (pp. 205-209), Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2002
• “Pre-employment Psychological Screening of Police Officers for Domestic Violence”; presented at the 107th Annual Convention of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, San Diego, CA; Nov. 13, 2000
• “Assessing Predictions of Domestic Violence: The Pre-employment Psychological Evaluation”; Domestic Violence by Police Officers (pp. 141-148), Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2000
• “Barriers to Effective Mental Health Interventions that Reduce Suicide by Police Officers”; Police Suicide; presented at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Quantico, VA; Sep. 24, 1999
• “When Normal People Act Crazy”; a panel presentation on aggressive driving for the Traffic Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences’ Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.; Jan. 11, 1999
• “Revised IACP Guidelines: Pre-employment Psychological Evaluation of Law Enforcement Applicants”; Police Chief (pages 88-94), October 1998
• “Road Rage: When Normal People Act Crazy”; Police Chief (page 28), July 1998