Mental Health Training for Law Enforcement Professionals

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Table 1

Police Preferences for Mental-Health-Related Training Topics

Topic	Mean  Rating^*	% Responding  Very Important^*
Dangerousness^*	3.86	89.6
Suicide by Cop^*	3.77	82.4
Your Potential Liability for Bad  Outcomes^*	3.73	77.6
Decreasing Suicide Risk^*	3.71	74.4
Mental Health Law^*	3.63	68.0
How to Recognize Mental Illness	3.62	66.4
Drug and Alcohol Abuse	3.58	64.8
Effective Communication With  Persons With Mental Illness	3.58	64.8
Stress Management	3.51	58.4
Management of Problem Behaviors^†	3.44	49.2
Mental Health Resources in  Your Area/Institution^†	3.37	45.9
Personality Disorders^†	3.27	36.0
Overview of Specific Types of Mental  Illness^†	3.25	35.0
Types of Medication and Their Side  Effects^†	3.23	37.1

Based on a Likert-type scale: 1, completely unimportant; 2, fairly unimportant; 3, fairly important; 4, very important.
* Topics rated significantly higher (based on repeated-measures ANOVA with p < .05) than
† topics.