Department of Psychology, School of Behavioral Sciences and Education, York College of Pennsylvania, York, PA, 17403, USA.
Behav Sci Law. 2019 Jul;37(4):342-352. doi: 10.1002/bsl.2395. Epub 2019 Feb 12.
Research on the Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) as a method to deal with mental illness in policing encounters has primarily focused on officers from large urban areas. The current study examined officer-level outcomes in a non-urban geographical setting using a pre/post-CIT training design. The sample included 46 police officers from seven departments that would be considered rural and 13 that would be classified as suburban. Officers completed scales to gauge change in mental illness attitudes at the beginning and end of their one-week CIT training. CIT training resulted in reductions in stigmatic attitudes with seven large effect sizes (ranging from η = .24 to .59) across the two measures. The findings from this research are a direct response to the call for greater diversity in the size of police settings in the CIT literature and serve to expand the empirical base for CIT in relation to officer-level outcomes.
研究危机干预小组（CIT）作为处理警察遭遇精神疾病的方法，主要集中在大城市的警察身上。本研究使用 CIT 培训前后的设计，在非城市地理环境中考察了警察层面的结果。样本包括来自七个被认为是农村地区的部门和十三个被归类为郊区的部门的 46 名警察。警察在为期一周的 CIT 培训开始和结束时完成了衡量精神疾病态度变化的量表。CIT 培训导致污名化态度的减少，在两个衡量标准上有七个大的效果量（范围从 η =.24 到.59）。这项研究的结果直接回应了 CIT 文献中对警察机构规模多样性的呼吁，并为与警察层面结果有关的 CIT 的实证基础提供了扩展。
