Law Enforcement and Corrections Family Support: Development and Evaluation of a Stress Management Program for Officers and Their Spouses. Executive Summary

摘要

This project, funded by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), represents a collaboration between a Police Department in West Texas and the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) to develop and provide an innovative stress prevention and treatment program for police officers and their families. The program was designed as an eight-week program with a combination of didactic group training and group therapy for couples. The training program consisted of three components: (1) didactic group presentations, (2) processing treatment groups, and (3) ongoing support-groups led by peer mentors. The experimental program included eight weeks of didactic treatment groups. For later groups, based on feedback from participants, this was pared down to 6 weeks. Near the end of the program, a peer mentoring officer and his/her spouse/significant other was selected on the basis of group consensus and willingness to participate.