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Heather Morris, PhD
Part-Time Faculty, Department of Psychology
Dr. Heather Morris is an investigative psychologist for the Air Force Office of Special
Investigations (OSI) Behavioral Science Directorate in Quantico, VA. She is a board-certified
psychologist specializing in forensic psychology. Dr. Morris currently provides investigative
psychology consultation to OSI agents and teaches several advanced interviewing courses at
the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. In addition, she has traveled internationally to
consult and serve as an expert witness in Courts-Martial cases and has conducted several sanity
board evaluations. Her clinical experience includes treating and evaluating offenders, including
sex offenders, both in prison and in the community.
Dr. Morris practiced in a police psychology firm for eight years, where her duties included: consulting
with schools, universities, and workplaces on insider/outsider threats; conducting behavior based threat
assessments; trial consulting; investigative case consultation; responding to critical incidents to provide
psychological first aid; and conducting trainings on trauma, stress management, verbal de-escalation, threat
assessment, and active shooter prevention, response, and recovery. In 2007, Dr. Morris traveled to
Antarctica with a team of psychologists to conduct pre-deployment evaluations.
Dr. Morris has published several chapters and articles on topics related to targeted violence, threat assess-
ment, investigative psychology, and the danger of non-lethal strangulation in intimate partner violence.
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