Should Dallas officers who survived ambush be required to undergo counseling? | NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness

Should Dallas officers who survived ambush be required to undergo counseling?

Posted on July 11, 2016

Shootings, natural disasters and terrorist attacks affect first rresponders as surely as civilians. In the wake of the Dallas tragedy that left five police officers dead, the chief of police is responding tomental health concerns. NAMI's report on police mental health, released in April with the Department of Justice, is now being cited as a warning that  too few police agencies have prepared to support personnel who experience psychological fallout from mass casualty events.

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