THE SCIENCE OF SUICIDE PREVENTION AND MENTAL RESILIENCE TRAINING 

This course is designed as a proactive approach to suicide prevention. The skills taught during this course may help save the life of an officer. The course provides cognitive and behavioral tools necessary to sustain an officer’s mental health, build emotional resilience, reduce the risk of suicide before a crisis point, and promote the attitude that suicide prevention is the responsibility of every officer in the department.

The officers will gain an understanding of the psychology of fear, stress, anxiety, emotions, thoughts, and behaviors that result from critical incidents or traumatic events and offers ways to decrease anxiety, lower the effects of stress, and provide effective behavioral interventions that can mitigate the potential psychological impact that those events can have on officers.

The course is based on officer-to-officer scenarios and built around the concept of an officer’s psychological self-development and the idea of “an officer helping another officer.” To emphasize key psychological concepts and explain the links between them, the scenarios are designed to reflect behavioral changes and break down officers’ cognitive and emotional processes. The scenarios are realistic, personal, engaging, thought provoking, and challenging. The officers examine complex situations involving day-to-day encounters with their fellow officers, command staff, and family members

TARGET POPULATION: Law Enforcement, Fire,EMS, Dispatchers and other First Responders