Issue Encyclopedia · Guideline I · Psychological
Adverse DoD Psychologist Opinion
Does adverse dod psychologist opinion affect a security clearance?
Basis: 52 decided hearing-level cases raising this issue. Descriptive history of decided cases, not a prediction.
Decided cases
53
hearing-level decisions raising this issue
Granted
25%
13 granted · 39 denied or revoked
Recent decided examples
Applicant, a 32-year-old manager with a physics degree and MBA, faced allegations under Guidelines I and E based on a long history of depression, suicide attempts, hospitalizations, threatening texts,…
Applicant, a 24-year-old defense contractor engineer, faced a Guideline I case based on a 2020 self-harm hospitalization and adverse psychological evaluations. He presented extensive evidence of treat…
The case involves an applicant seeking security clearance who faced allegations under Guidelines I, G, and E, primarily related to psychological conditions, alcohol consumption, and personal conduct. …
The applicant's security clearance was denied due to unresolved concerns under Guideline E related to personal conduct, despite mitigating factors for drug involvement and psychological conditions. Th…
Related issues under Guideline I
How these numbers are measured
Scope: decided hearing-level cases whose per-allegation profile records this issue, matched to the same issue value the search filters use, so a count here and a filtered search always agree. A case raising several issues counts under each one. The mitigating conditions and the credited circumstances below were extracted for a subset of the record, so both are counts of cases rather than rates. Pages exist only for issues with at least 25 decided cases, and † marks any split built on fewer than 20.
Reading the statistics
- Granted = access granted or continued; Denied = denied or revoked.
- Grant rate = granted ÷ (granted + denied).
- † marks figures based on fewer than 20 cases, too few to be reliable.
- Hovering any rate shows its statistical range (a 95% confidence interval).
- Figures are descriptive counts over decided, public DOHA ISCR decisions, never predictions or assessments of any pending case.
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