NCJ Number
104098
Editor(s)
J T Reese,
H A Goldstein
Date Published
1986
Length
563 pages
Annotation
Eighty-three papers presented at the 1984 National Symposium on Police Psychological Services cover police selection and assessment, counseling issues and practices, organizational issues in police stress, psychological services, critical incident reactions, and stress and stress management.
Abstract
Papers on police officer selection and assessment focus on psychological instruments used in screening applicants, descriptions of particular departmental selection procedures, and guidelines for mental health professionals involved in police personnel selection and assessment. Papers pertaining to counseling issues and practices address such topics as techniques and programs for providing police psychological services, peer counseling, and therapy for officers' families. Issues related to organizational stress factors include career development, disciplinary procedures, labor-management relations, and police management skills. Papers on psychological services for police encompass the development of such services, ethical issues in providing these services, confidentiality, and the role of the police psychologist. Papers focusing on critical incident reactions deal primarily with the management of stress experienced by an officer who has shot someone in the line of duty. In considering stress and stress management, papers address police suicide, police family life, reducing organizational stressors, stress characteristics, and stress remedies. For individual papers, see NCJ 104099-131.