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Best Outcomes: Managing Emotional Factors in Use of Force
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April 14, 2016 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Best Outcomes: Managing Emotional Factors in Use of Force
| Thursday, April 14, 2016
4:00 to 6:00 PM |
| A panel discussion examines the emotional factors operating in the use of force in police service. How is it that some officers in highly threatening situations are able to exercise prudence and restraint and achieve an effective outcome, while others are not? To what extent does tactical response training include emotional regulation? How does leadership influence use of force responses? Are we able to psychologically screen applicants most or least able to manage high conflict encounters? What are the possible emotional consequences of appropriately exercised incidents of lethal force, on the officer, the department and the community?
This learning experience is for those interested in police services and corrections as well as for those professionals who seek to be of service to them: therapists, ministers, peer mentors, administrators, policy makers, physicians and other medical personnel. No Charge
Moderator: John Madonna, Ed.D./Cert.PsyA. Licensed Psychologist, Faculty and Training Analyst, Boston Graduate School for Psychoanalysis; Executive Director, Chandler Psychological Services; 30 Years of Psychological Services to the Law Enforcement, Corrections and Public Safety Agencies; Co-Author: Treating Police Stress, Charles Thomas Publishers Captain Phil Trapasso, LCSW. 33 years Massachusetts State Police (Ret.) Coordinator of Professional Development; Director of the Sexual Harassment/Discrimination Unit; Commandant of the Training Academy; Crisis Management, Critical Incident and Workplace Violence Specialist; Family Services of Central Massachusetts; Senior Associate, Chandler Psychological Services Chief Edward Gardella, MA/CJ. 32 years Worcester Police Department (Ret.) Co-Founder of the Worcester Police Department Stress Unit; Past Director of the Mortell Institute; Past President of the Massachusetts Stress Officers Association; Recipient of Numerous Community Achievement Awards; Adjunct Professor of Criminal Justice Senior Associate, Chandler Psychological Services Chief Paul MacMillan, MA/CJ. 31 years MBTA Transit Police (Ret.) Chair, Transit Police and Security and Peer Advisory Group; Chair, Committee for Public Safety for the American Public Safety Association; Assessor and Team Leader, Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies; Private Consultant to Transit Police Organizations. Chief Randy Brashears, University of Massachusetts Lowell Campus Police Department |
