Learn to identify, understand, and work with the changing culture in the law enforcement community that will enhance CISM response. This training is designed to provide insight and understanding of the different types of stress in law enforcement culture from a systems perspectives emphasis, this course will provide practical “back pocket skills” in providing crisis intervention services to law enforcement organizations and individual personnel in crisis. The LE Perspectives course is intended for law enforcement officers, their families, mental health professionals, chaplains, and organizations that interact within the law enforcement community. It is an excellent course for CISM teams and team members who would want to enhance their understanding of the differences in the law enforcement culture as compared to other first responder cultures.

Learning Objectives:

  • Community perceptions of the Law Enforcement Profession
  • Differentiated Model of oppression in capitalistic systems
  • System dysfunctions in the LE culture
  • Special considerations when providing virtual CISM interventions
  • Stress areas of a LE officer in crisis
  • Specific stress areas to LE officer culture
  • Healthy coping mechanisms and resiliency's protective factors
  • Complicated interventions with social media pressure
  • Addictions and CISM response
  • Changing psychological/emotional perceptions within the law enforcement culture

Speakers

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Peter Volkmann MSW