Mental health stigmaHelp-seeking behaviorsPolicing is a high risk, high stress occupation involving repeated exposure to distressing situations. High levels of emotional and physical exhaustion lead to increased prevalence of psychological disorders such as post-traumatic stress, depression, and anxiety. ...
Understanding the decision-making process of police officers when responding to mental health calls is essential for optimizing the training they receive t
This is not only related to stigma on mental health issues, but also to moral injury being a relatively novel and elusive concept without having much of a status as medical diagnosis (Molendijk, 2021; Morgan et al., 2016). Therefore, involving more practitioners who interact with frontline ...
They’ll look you square in the eye and say ‘I get it and understand.’ I look at them and I go, ‘No you don’t.’‘No you don’t, go back to class, go back to school, go back to where you came from’” Stigma that officers seeking mental health services are not fit to...
Plummer believes the program can also help eliminate some of the stigma attached to mental health issues and allow police to focus on responding to issues they’ve been thoroughly trained to handle. Suggest a Correction
Health America’s theme for 2025 is “Turn Awareness into Action.” This initiative encourages people to recognize the strides that have been made in decreasing the stigma around mental health, while also working to transform this understanding into actions to create change. According to Mental… ...
Making counseling mandatory would remove the stigma of asking for help, and would also [hopefully] help the officers who are dealing with or have experienced on the job traumatization. Asking for help can be very degrading, and could make someone feel weak in the eyes of society. Having a...
experiences and feelings that they had never spoken of before. Some of the incidents they talked about occurred many years ago, but were clearly still at the front of their minds. Together, they revealed a culture of silence and stigma around emotional expression within the UK’s police forces...
National Mental Health Month, observed each May, promotes mental wellness through an annual theme.Mental Health America’stheme for 2025 is “Turn Awareness into Action.” This initiative encourages people to recognize the strides that have been made in decreasing the stigma around mental health, wh...
(n= 173) and civilian (n= 143) members of an Eastern Canadian regional police service responded to an online survey measuring: operational stress, organizational stress, microaggressions, public stigma, self-stigma, psychological QOL, social relationship QOL, and attitudes toward accessing ...