Police Mental Health

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a formal psychiatric diagnosis. At the risk of stating the obvious, a key component to PTSD is exp...

Stress and Traumatic Stress Imagine your neighbor knocking on your front door. He’s irritated. The neighbor says your son, who’s been playi...

The good news: Police Mental Health now has a Facebook page. I'd like to encourage you - yeah YOU - to share what works and what d...

Can you imagine being a police officer and having no real knowledge of or interest in how to use a hand gun? Can you imagine a colleague sa...

Nice job Good stop Wow, you did a great investigation Great arrest...good work Not much rocket surgery in there. It’s a curious ph...

Schadenfreude and Encouragement (part one of a two part series) I walk around my department like an undercover social scientist, taking m...

The following is an excerpt from the book on police mental health I've been working on for what feels like a frickin' decade. Fatig...