A Quantitative Approach to Police and Mental Health Training

The effectiveness of mental health training for police officers and the officers’ subsequent interactions with individuals with mental illness has been well researched. There is a lack in documentation on any differences in the hours of mental health training officers receive and their perceptions of individuals with mental illness. There is also a lack in research looking at any differences between officers who volunteered for mental health training and those who did not. The purpose of this quantitative study was to explore any differences between police officers who volunteered and those who did not for informal, formal, and crisis intervention team training as measured by their perceptions of individuals with mental illness after training completion. The goal of this study was to collect data from police officers in the state of Minnesota using the Mental Health Attitude Survey for Police. This survey was distributed online via Survey Monkey to police officers through department-issued emails from police chiefs or sheriffs. The theoretical framework for this study was contact theory. There were 130 participants in this study and the data revealed that there was not a significant difference of police officer’s attitudes toward individuals with mental illness after completion of mental health training at various hours. Results were analyzed through an ANOVA. The data revealed a significant difference between police officers who had volunteered for their mental health training versus those who were mandated. This study can lead to positive social change by enhancing mental health training needs for police officers, increasing mental health knowledge, and improving relations and increasing safety between/for police officers and individuals with mental illness

Lower Rydberg series of methane : A combined coupled cluster linear response and molecular quantum defect orbital calculation

Vertical excitation energies as well as related absolute photoabsorption oscillator strength data are very scarce in the literature for methane. In this study, we have characterized the three existing series of low-lying Rydberg states of CH4 by computing coupled cluster linear response (CCLR) vertical excitation energies together with oscillator strengths in the molecular-adapted quantum defect orbital formalism from a distorted Cs geometry selected on the basis of outer valence green function calculations. The present work provides a wide range of data of excitation energies and absolute oscillator strengths which correspond to the Rydberg series converging to the three lower ionization potential values of the distorted methane molecule, in energy regions for which experimentally measured data appear to be [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]