Police deepening their empathy. Looks like great program. Empathy Lessons: Training Police To Understand People With Mental Illness To help them handle the growing proportion of police work that involves mental health crises, some Massachusetts officers take advanced training that teaches them to better understand -- and empathize with -- people with mental illness. “It’s a very lofty goal, but you’re trying to teach officers empathy for people with mental illness, and that’s why I think that ‘Hearing Voices’ training was very important,” he said. “Officers need to have empathy today — that’s what society expects from officers and it’s what they deserve, and it’s what people need. sco.lt/84cG6D
Posted on: Fri, 23 May 2014 20:09:29 +0000
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