623 Review areas could be covered. This work consists of forty-two chapters, grouped into four broad areas: clinical health, education and research, organisations and human resources and military operations, which take up 1071 pages. In the introduction, the coordinator carries out a brief but complete review of each of the chapters. It is not our intention here to provide a summary of such an extensive piece of work or to repeat what the coordinator has already said, but, for the reader’s benefit, we will provide a commentary on the content of this compendium. The first area covered in the book is Clinical Health Psychology. This section includes forensic aspects and the psychological care provided at the different levels and in the area of operations, while making reference to some specific interventions. Thus, the first three chapters are devoted to forensic psychology in the Armed Forces, and include a review of the legislation and the day-to-day work of psychologists at the different assessment levels, such as the Ordinary Medical-Forensic Board and the Medical-Forensic Psychiatric Board, with special attention being afforded to the tools for detecting symptom simulation (faking bad or malingering) and dissimulation (faking good or dissimulation) in forensic contexts. Chapters four, five and six address clinical intervention in Psychology Practices and Centres. Chapters seven to nine look at the participation of military psychologists in the prevention of drug addiction, and chapter ten, entitled Trastorno por estrés postraumático. Neurosis traumática de Guerra. Enfoque cognitivo conductual focalizado en el trauma (Post-traumatic stress disorder. Traumatic Neurosis of War. Cognitive Behavioural Approach focused on Trauma) addresses a subject that has aroused much interest in recent years and given rise to numerous publications; it describes a study in which subjects with this disorder were treated with cognitive-behavioural techniques. Finally, the last chapter in this section of the book (chapter eleven) looks at a unique practice, namely, that carried out by Military Psychologists in the Occupational Centre for people with intellectual disabilities, known as Centro Especial no.1 (CEISFAS). With the exception of this last chapter, the first part of the book covers activities which are carried out by all military psychologists, considering that at all levels and military forces, psychologists perform psychological assessments, participate in plans for the prevention of drug addiction and treat different types of psychological problems. However, this is not the case with the second part of the book, which is devoted to Educational Psychology and Research – areas that are not necessarily linked. Only about twenty military psychologists, out of a workforce of more than two hundred, work in military education centres, and because they are no less important, the subsequent chapters in this section cover areas of major interest, which are dealt with style and quality. Chapter twelve, on the training received by military psychologists at the Military Health School, gives readers an idea of the skills required for the practice of the profession. That said, however, a career in the armed forces requires somewhat more than knowledge and skills; it calls for certain values, which are also addressed
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