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Dr. Harnett is a licensed Clinical Psychologist and faculty member of the Division of Public Safety Leadership. She has extensive experience in teaching /supervising graduate and undergraduate students in traditional and non-traditional course formats. Dr. Harnett is a former Coordinator of Training for a doctoral internship program and a former graduate director of a clinical psychology program.

In the Police Executive Leadership Program, she teaches both graduate and undergraduate students such topics as: the power of situational influences on behavior, topics in positive organizational psychology, leadership resilience, and applied statistics and survey research methods. In addition, she delivers management development seminars on similar topics for law enforcement agencies and national organizations such as the Department of Homeland Security.

Dr. Harnett was recently awarded the Medal for Civilian Achievement by the Maryland National Guard for her leadership efforts in development of the Resilience Module of the Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program. She is a member of the reintegration faculty team, and in addition, she is a civilian member of the Department of Defense, Center for Excellence, All Services Resilience Workgroup.

Education

M.B.A. Executive Studies, Loyola University, Baltimore, MD 1989
Ph.D. Personality Psychology, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC 1981
M.A. General Psychology, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC 1980
M.A. Clinical Psychology, Loyola University, Baltimore, MD 1978
B.S. Psychology, Towson University, Towson, MD 1976

Professional Experience

• Licensed Clinical Psychologist/State of Maryland
• Certified Trainer/International Critical Incident Stress Foundation: Critical Incident Stress Management
• Expert Witness: U.S. District Courts (MD & NC)
• Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Division of Public Safety Leadership, 8/1/2007 – present
• Acting Director, Towson University, Graduate Program in Clinical Psychology, 2006-2007
• Associate Professor of Psychology/Tenured, College of Notre Dame of Maryland, 1993-2006

Scholarly/Research Interests

• Survey Research and Program Evaluation; Resilience/Executive Resilience
• JHU Police Executive Leadership Program (Undergraduate & Graduate) /Program Evaluation, Spring 2008
• JHU Intelligence Analysis Program/Program Evaluation, Fall 2008
• Delaware Information and Analysis Center, Delaware State Police/Program Evaluation, Spring 2009

Current Activities - Grants/Sponsored Research/Partnership Activities

Member, All Services Resiliency Work Group, Department of Defense, Defense Centers of Excellence,
Washington, D.C. Spring 2009- Present
Researcher, NIH Grant Submission (5/1/09), Investigation of Efficacy of Maryland National Guard’s Reintegration Program (in partnership with the Maryland National Guard)
Faculty, Curriculum Development, Resilience Modules I & II, Maryland National Guard Reintegration Program
Member Editorial Board, International Journal of Emergency Mental Health, Fall 2007-present

Selected Presentations

Harnett, C. “Resilience Strategies for Management”, Supervisory Workshop, Women’s House of Correction, Jessup, MD, Fall 2007

Harnett, C. “Building and Maintaining Resilience after Trauma and Loss”, Workshop for Concerns of Police Survivors/MD Chapter, Annual Conference, Ocean City, MD., October 2008

Harnett, C. & Welzant, V. “Maintaining Resilience in Peer Support Teams”, Presentation to Regional Meeting of Police Support Teams, Howard County Police Department Sponsorship, Howard County, MD, December 2008

Harnett, C. “Vicarious Trauma and Crisis Intervention”, Presentation at Maryland Emergency Management Association Conference, Spring 2008

Harnett, C. & Gafney, M. “Preliminary Findings of the MD Nat’l Guard Reintegration P rogram”, Round Table Discussion at World Congress on Trauma, Stress and Coping, Baltimore, MD, March 2009

Harnett, C. “Resilience and Self-Leadership”, Presentation to Department of Homeland Security, Women in Leadership Forum, Washington, D.C., March 2009

Publications in Process

Harnett, C. & Gafney, M. Ensuring equality after the war: Providing Reservists and National Guard Veterans with parity in health care. Journal of Social Issues, accepted April, 2009.