A Survey of Family Crisis Intervention Training Programs for Bay Area Police Departments

This thesis documents a study intended to investigate how police officers can benefit from training in the area of psychological counseling. The study examines how police departments teach officers new behaviors that might provide a new approach to adjudicating stressful non-criminal situations. The project involved conducting an inventory of Bay Area Police Programs in family crisis intervention. The results point to a need to increase specialized training in this area so that it is commensurate to the actual percentage of job performance involving stressful non-criminal situations