Police officer perceptions of the impact of Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) programs.
*Attitude; *Crisis Intervention; *Mentally Ill Persons; *Police; *Professional Competence; Adult; Attitude; Crisis Intervention; Crisis intervention team; Familiarity with mental illness; Female; Human; Humans; Law Enforcement; Male; Management; Middle Age; Middle Aged; Models; Officer confidence; Organizational; Police; Professional Competence; Psychiatric Patients; Social Control
The Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) program is an approach for law enforcement officers to safely response to individuals who are experiencing a mental health crisis. Research must identify the components of CIT that are instrumental to the overall effectiveness of the program. For instance, recent studies report that CIT may have a transformative effect on officers' attitudes by increasing exposure to and familiarity with mental illness. This study explores this possibility further by examining 57 CIT officers' experiences with mental illness and attitudes about CIT. Specifically, we assessed how personal and professional exposure to mental illness associates with officers' perceptions about CIT generally, as well as with opinions about the officers' confidence in their abilities and the perceived effectiveness of the police department in responding to individuals in mental health crisis. Our findings indicate that CIT is rated very positively by officers. We found that officers' attitudes about the impact of CIT on improving overall safety, accessibility of services, officer skills and techniques, and the preparedness of officers to handle calls involving persons with mental illness are positively associated with officers' confidence in their abilities or with officers' perceptions of overall departmental effectiveness. There is further evidence that personal contact with individuals with mental illness affects the relationship between attitudes that CIT impacts overall safety and perceived departmental effectiveness. The results of this exploratory study underscore the importance of CIT officers' perceptions of key elements of CIT and the role of exposure to mental illness in examining program effectiveness.
Bonfine Natalie; Ritter Christian; Munetz Mark R
International journal of law and psychiatry
2014
2014-08
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2014.02.004" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1016/j.ijlp.2014.02.004</a>
Adolescent premarital sexual activity, cohabitation, and attitudes toward marriage.
Female; Humans; Male; Adolescent; Prevalence; *Attitude; Interpersonal Relations; Family/psychology; Sexual Behavior/*psychology/statistics & numerical data
Societal trends indicate ambivalent attitudes about marriage. Specifically, there is greater acceptance of divorce and nontraditional living arrangements such as cohabitation, as well as acceptance and prevalence of premarital sex, than in the past. The authors examine adolescent attitudes toward marriage and their association with premarital sexual activity and cohabitation. Recommendations for helping adolescents understand the realities of marriage and family life are shared.
Martin P D; Martin D; Martin M
Adolescence
2001
1905-6
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Expressed attitudes of adolescents toward marriage and family life.
Humans; Adolescent; Texas; *Attitude; Sexual Behavior; Family/*psychology; Divorce; Marriage/*psychology
In the U.S., modifications in family structure and in attitudes concerning marriage and family life have been numerous. Areas such as sexual behavior and alternative living arrangements have become highly varied and nontraditional compared to past generations. This study examined the attitudes of adolescents toward aspects of marriage and family life. The majority of adolescents expressed negative attitudes toward divorce and viewed marriage as a lifelong commitment. While only about a third of the adolescents expressed positive attitudes toward premarital sex, a majority indicated they would engage in sexual intercourse before marriage, or already have. Interestingly, about half of the adolescents held positive attitudes toward cohabitation. Lastly, the adolescents demonstrated a growing acceptance of premarital counseling and psychoeducational interventions regarding marriage and family life.
Martin Paige D; Specter Gerald; Martin Don; Martin Maggie
Adolescence
2003
1905-06
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Medical students' experience of academic review and promotions committees.
*Attitude; Adult; Anecdotes as Topic; Education; Humans; Interprofessional Relations; Interviews as Topic; Medical; Medical/*organization & administration; Medical/*psychology; Ohio; Peer Review/*methods; Professional Staff Committees/*standards; Qualitative Research; Schools; Students; Surveys and Questionnaires; Undergraduate/*standards
BACKGROUND: Like all medical schools, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine (NEOUCOM) has an elaborate committee system for academic review and promotions (ARP). Little research exists locally or nationally on this system. PURPOSE: E-mail invitations to all 420 NEOUCOM currently enrolled students were sent seeking their participation in a qualitative study that involved interviewing students who had appeared before an ARP committee at any time for any reason to understand how they experienced the process. METHOD: NUD*IST software was used to analyze the data generated by the interviews. RESULTS: The invitation drew 19 volunteers from the pool of 84 students who, at the time of the messages, had appeared before an ARP committee at least once. Themes were discovered surrounding students' perceptions of the committee's purpose, their experience of it, their beliefs about students' honesty when appearing before the committee, how they felt about themselves after a committee appearance, and how they would improve the process of academic review.
Wear Delese; Keck-McNulty Cynthia; Jones Bonnie; Penn Mark; Moss Polly
Teaching and learning in medicine
2004
2004
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1207/s15328015tlm1603_1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1207/s15328015tlm1603_1</a>