Abstract

GARCIA SILGO, M.. The controversial about the Comprehensive Soldier Fitness training program. Sanid. Mil. [online]. 2014, vol.70, n.1, pp.40-48. ISSN 1887-8571.  https://dx.doi.org/10.4321/S1887-85712014000100007.

Background: In January 2012, the journal American Psychologist from the American Psychological Association published a report about the United States Army Comprehensive Soldier Fitness training program. This program has a section on psychosocial variables. The special elicited five replies from academic civilian American psychologists, which prompted controversial allegations of the Army psychological fitness program, the psychology team involved the American Psychologist Association and the military psychology. Objectives: The aim of this article is to raise an overview of the comments, to show the Seligman's response to the comments, to make a summary of the controversy and to give continuity to the debate. Methods: This analysis has been done by using the code of ethics and the reflection from the evidence based practice in psychology. Conclusions: While some of the criticisms show a partial view based on some political ideologies, promoting a moral debate instead of a scientific psychology one, others open an interesting debate. The authors of the reviews doubt the military psychology ethics and suggest the no association between positive psychology and the Army. However, doing this would be unethical and therefore a paradox. The controversy raises a necessary question for psychology.

Keywords : Comprehensive Soldier Fitness; Military psychology; Professional ethics; Social dilemmas; Role conflict.

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