Philip R. Magaletta, PhD

Dr. Magaletta’s professional career spans over twenty years. During that time he has recruited, placed, trained and developed numerous students and staff in the law enforcement and defense arenas. His research areas and publications cover correctional mental health workforce training and development, telehealth services, mental illness, suicide, violence, opioid addiction, approaches to change, and spirituality. He is experienced in advising on mental health and substance abuse workforce development in public safety, public health, and academic settings and has been involved in well over 1,500 student and employee placements. He is experienced in a wide range of team based scholarly activities including advising on dissertations and thesis, scientific publication in peer-reviews journals, editorial work for journals as a peer reviewer, and associate editor, and editing books and reviewing book proposals. He uses these research and scholarly activities to build networks among and between people to comprehensively capture and explain the scope of correctional mental health work, and uses that evidence to increase the well-being of the workforce. As an independent consultant, he is available to contract for research, student or staff writing supervision, thesis and dissertation editing and advisement, and graduate school applications, and early, middle and late career advising.

As a psychologist and career federal law enforcement officer with 24 years of experience performing mental health administration, training, research, practice and consultation for the nation’s leading corrections agency and other public health settings, he is highly valued by supervisors and companies for expertise in bridging criminal justice, military and public health research, training and practice. He has strong management skills and is an excellent communicator with a creative vision and commitment toward influencing the direction of mental health training, research and practice in public health and safety systems. A driven innovator whose ability to initiate and design change through talent management have greatly increased the odds of success for students, clients and client’s organizations and companies alike.

Philip R. Magaletta earned his BA in Psychology from the University of Scranton, MA in Clinical Psychology from Loyola College in Maryland and PhD in Clinical Psychology from St. Louis University. A career federal law enforcement officer, he retired from the Bureau of Prisons as the Chief of Clinical Education and Workforce Development for the Psychology Services Branch. He is currently a Lead Research Scientist at ICF, Inc. The 2015 recipient of the Distinguished Career Award from the American Psychological Association’s Division of Public Service Psychologists, his professional interests include correctional and military substance abuse and psychological service delivery and workforce development, 12-step approaches to change, and telehealth. He is a Fellow in the Division 29 of the APA.