The first objective of the study was to identify the role of public stigma and self-stigma in predicting attitudes toward seeking mental health services among police officers. Consistent with the study hypotheses, the results indicate that public stigma and self-stigma ...
Understanding the decision-making process of police officers when responding to mental health calls is essential for optimizing the training they receive to engage with persons with a mental illness (PMI) and/or persons experiencing a mental health crisis. Research on officer decision-making in mental...
Stigma, pluralistic ignorance, and attitudes toward seeking mental health services among police officers. Criminal Justice Behav. 2015;43(6):759-777. doi:10.1177/0093854815613103 Google ScholarCrossref 13. Houdmont J, Elliot-Davies M. Officer demand, capacity, and welfare survey...
After the shooting of an unarmed woman at Capitol Hill, The National Allegiance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and the Crisis Intervention Training (CIT) started what is to be the most Comprehensive Police Officer mental health program in the country, this 40 hours crisis intervention program is ...
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 ...
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… ...
a charity supporting police officers and their families. Her research focuses on supporting police officer’s emotional wellbeing through the exploration of officer’s lived experience and the impact of organisational culture on individual mental health. She looks at the role of stigma, emotional suppr...
Supporters say lawmakers' efforts to change that are encouraging, but the push-back shows a stigma remains. "They don't get too worked up when an officer gets shot or physically assaulted because they can see it," Clark said. "If you think every cop is just going to run to that lifebo...
Law enforcement officers are at risk of decreased mental and physical health due to the high demands and stressful nature of police work. Self-regulatory c
Moreover, peers are often the first to notice when another officer is psychologically distressed and, given the stigma associated with mental health assistance, those in need are more likely to confide in one of their own (Everly, 2015; Kamena et al., 2011). With paradigm shifts in office...