OVERVIEW
Dr. Troiani is a nationally recognized leader in military psychology with more than five decades of clinical experience serving veterans, active-duty service members, and their families. His career began at the Veterans Administration Hospital, where he worked with returning Vietnam veterans, and has since included extensive teaching, clinical practice, and professional training focused on the unique mental health and substance use challenges faced by military populations.
At Adler University, Dr. Troiani is the founding director of the Military Psychology programs and an associate professor of clinical psychology, where he has taught since 1993. He developed both the military clinical psychology track within the Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.) in Clinical Psychology program and the fully online Master of Arts in Military Psychology. He also serves as faculty advisor to the Military Psychology Student Organization (MPSO) and the Adler Student Veterans Association (ASVA).
In addition to coordinating Adler’s graduate military psychology program, Dr. Troiani lectures widely to the professional behavioral health community on issues such as post-deployment mental health and substance use among Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans, translating decades of frontline experience into practical, evidence-based training for the next generation of clinicians.
PRESENTATIONS + PUBLICATIONS
Presentations
Dr. Troiani has been a regular workshop and keynote presenter at the annual conferences of the Illinois Psychological Association, Illinois Certification Board, Inc., Illinois Behavioral Health Association, and the National Alliance on Mental Health – Illinois (NAMI-IL).
Presentations have been on the following topics:
- Psychological and Physical Consequences of the New Marijuana
- Behavior Health Consequences Experienced by those Still Serving and or have Served in
the United States Military along with their Families
- Psychological Consequences of the COVID 19 Pandemic
- Building Resilience with the Veterans Population
- Mental Health Disaster Response
- Relapse Prevention with Substance Use
- Psychology of Terrorism
- 2019-2025 — Co-Chair — APA D-19 Regional Seminar Series (RSS)
- President, Board of Directors — Mental Health America of Illinois
- President, Board of Directors — Illinois Certification Board, Inc.
- Chair, Advocacy Committee — American Psychological Association (APA), Division 19, Society for Military Psychology
- Board Member — Tahoe Institute
- Advisor — Riverside Township Mental Health Commission
- President — Board of Directors, Italian American Veterans Museum
- Past President — Illinois Psychological Association (IPA)
- Past Section Chair — Military Psychology, IPA
- Past President — Illinois Chapter, Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (ATAP)
- Past Advisor — National Guard Bureau, Departments of the Army and the Air Force, National Interagency Civil-Military Institute
- 1978-2010 — Commander, United States Navy (retired)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Military psychology
- Operational psychology
- Military veterans and their families
- Substance use
- Disaster response
- Crisis response
- Community mental health
- Police psychology
- Behavioral health policy
