Officer Down: How Smaller Agencies Can Manage Critical Incidents and Ensure Psychological Survival

During this conference workshop presentation, Dr. McDougall utilizes his many years of experience with officer-involved shootings, line-of-duty deaths, and other trauma to engage the viewers in dynamic discussions and debates regarding the impact of critical incidents upon the officer and the special challenges they create for smaller agencies. Powerful videos of clinical interviews with officers highlight this presentation, and take viewers inside the clinician's office to experience the numerous, and often untold ways in which officer's lives are changed by critical incidents. Specific attention will be given to suggested guidelines and procedures of smaller agencies, who may not have a mental health provider on staff, or direct access to psychological services.