1 40 1 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. URL Address <a href="http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2014.02.004" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2014.02.004</a> Pages 341–350 Issue 4 Volume 37 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Police officer perceptions of the impact of Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) programs. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available International journal of law and psychiatry Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2014 2014-08 Subject The topic of the resource *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 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Bonfine Natalie; Ritter Christian; Munetz Mark R Description An account of the resource 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. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <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> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Article information provided for research and reference use only. All rights are retained by the journal listed under publisher and/or the creator(s). *Attitude *Crisis Intervention *Mentally Ill Persons *Police *Professional Competence 2014 Adult Attitude Bonfine Natalie College of Graduate Studies Crisis Intervention Crisis intervention team Department of Family & Community Medicine Department of Psychiatry Familiarity with mental illness Female Human Humans International journal of law and psychiatry Law Enforcement Male Management Middle Age Middle Aged Models Munetz Mark R NEOMED College of Graduate Studies NEOMED College of Medicine Officer confidence Organizational Police Professional Competence Psychiatric Patients Ritter Christian Social Control