Designing Mental Health Training Curricula for Police Culture
Presented by Christopher Weaver, PhD and Sgt. Vanessa Payne (Ret.)
This on-demand professional training program on Designing Mental Health Training Curricula for Police Culture is presented by Christopher Weaver, Ph.D. and Ret. Sgt. Vanessa Payne.
This program describes stereotypes and evidence regarding police as a cultural group, including reviewing relevant laws and sample policies that govern police behavior. Participants will be guided to draft a mock training curriculum for a challenging and divisive topic, customized to the interaction of police culture with their own.
Upon completion of this program you will be able to:
Describe stereotypical versus evidence-supported elements of police culture
Describe core tenets of police work that any training curriculum needs to honor
Describe state police-perspective rationale supporting behaviors seen publicly as problematic
Describe talking points to combat negative assumptions about yourself that police may hold
Describe common points of failure for mental health professionals who train police
Describe police-perspective talking points to teach a mental health-focused learning objective
Review Before Proceeding
Lesson 1 Video
Existing Police Training Materials
Interpersonal Circumplex
Transtheoretical Model_Stages of Change
Lesson 2 Video
Self-Assessment – Attitudes Toward Police
Personal History Statement
Lesson Quiz
Lesson 3 Video
How well do you understand police stress? - Worksheet Submission
Lesson Quiz
Lesson 4 Video
Lesson Quiz
Lesson 5 Video
De-escalating the mentally ill
Lesson Quiz
Custom training options for groups of 5 to 500+