Issue Encyclopedia · Guideline I · Psychological
Unspecified Psychological Condition
Does unspecified psychological condition affect a security clearance?
Basis: 138 decided hearing-level cases raising this issue. Descriptive history of decided cases, not a prediction.
Decided cases
139
hearing-level decisions raising this issue
Granted
32%
44 granted · 94 denied or revoked
Official mitigating conditions cited
| Condition | In granted cases | In denied cases |
|---|---|---|
| ¶ 29(b) · In counseling or treatment voluntarily, with a favorable prognosis | 7 | 0 |
| ¶ 29(a) · The condition is controllable with treatment, and treatment is being followed | 6 | 0 |
¶ 29(b) · In counseling or treatment voluntarily, with a favorable prognosis
- In granted cases
- 7
- In denied cases
- 0
¶ 29(a) · The condition is controllable with treatment, and treatment is being followed
- In granted cases
- 6
- In denied cases
- 0
Circumstances credited in granted cases
- ongoing treatment compliance · credited in 1 granted case
Recent decided examples
The case involves an applicant who submitted a security clearance application and faced allegations under Guideline I and E. The administrative judge found sufficient evidence to mitigate the concerns…
The applicant in this case was a 51-year-old director of a software management project for a defense contractor, who sought a security clearance after submitting her application in October 2020. The D…
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 case involves an applicant seeking security clearance who faced allegations under Guidelines I and G. The applicant admitted to some allegations related to alcohol consumption but denied others, p…
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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