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 Understanding Moral Injury, Depression, and Cops

 Understanding PTSD and Officers

Live Webinar: Thurs, Oct 22, 3p ET: Anxiety and Force: The Consequences, Realities and Aftermath

Tactical, Practical and Realistic – Mental Health for Cops.

Tactical, Practical De-Escalation is an informational based course focused on real-world de-escalation strategies that are operationally realistic, legally sound, and immediately applicable in high-risk encounters. Street cops are expected to make clinical diagnosis at the seen of tense, uncertain and rapidly evolving scenes, and are expected to get it right. The course reframes de-escalation not as avoidance or hesitation, but as a deliberate tactical skill used to slow situations, improve decision-making, and reduce unnecessary force without compromising officer or staff safety. Utilizing and providing a foundation in a 4th Amendment Standard of use of force

Participants will examine how subject, and individual stress physiology, perception, communicate on, positioning, time, distance, and team dynamics influence escalation and de-escalation during rapidly evolving encounters. Instruction integrates legal standards, officer safety principles, and behavioral science to demonstrate when de-escalation is appropriate, when it is not, and how to transition effectively between de-escalation and control. This is not a CIT related course. While CIT is effective, it can over simplify responses, generate tactical dis-advantages and replete with protocol that potentially diminishes Graham. 

Session Two:

Course Title: Understanding PTSD and Officers as it relates to force

This course offers law enforcement professionals a focused examination of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and its specific impact on officers and agency culture. Through a blend of clinical knowledge and occupational insight, participants will explore the causes, symptoms, and behavioral manifestations of PTSD in policing. The training emphasizes early identification, risk factors unique to law enforcement, comorbid conditions such as depression or substance use, and barriers to seeking help. Officers using force may or may not get a mental health condition, this can impact return to duty, future calls for service, and their career.

Participants will learn how trauma can accumulate over time, and be a sudden event in the law enforcement profession and how untreated PTSD can influence performance, personal life, use of force, and decision-making. The course also provides strategies for peer and supervisory support, evidence-based treatment pathways, and ways agencies can build trauma-informed systems of care.

 Courthouses serve as the center of many government, legal, and community activities. They can also be vulnerable to threats of violence for all who use them. Join us to learn effective strategies and best practices to enhance a collaborative courthouse security philosophy. Gather tools and resources from current state and federal court services experts related to security planning, jury and witness safety considerations, and threat assessment and management. Presenters include experts in the areas law enforcement, state and federal attorneys, judges and other court services professionals. 

TOPIC - related to anxiety/mental health in employees 

Topic/Presentation - Mental Health - Anxiety