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Book Review: \u201cCrisis Negotiations: Managing Critical Incidents and Hostage Situations in Law Enforcement and Corrections\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

To understand the reverence Texas negotiators hold for psychologists, one needs to go no further than to look at the psychologists who have trained them for years.\u00a0 Two of the most important are Drs. Wayman Mullins and Michael McMains and they have authored a book called Crisis Negotiations: Managing Critical Incidents and Hostage Situations in Law Enforcement and Corrections<\/i><\/b>.\u00a0 This is a book that trains the Hostage\/Crisis negotiator from start to finish \u2013 a little about the history of negotiations, setting up teams, dealing with a variety of situations, handling tactical vs. operational\/negotiation teams, handling the stress of a negotiation during and after an incident, and generally handling every aspect of a police response from start to finish.\u00a0 Make no mistake, this book is a complete textbook that leaves no stone unturned.\u00a0 Each chapter starts with learning objectives, then goes to stories, incidents and techniques, gives you references up the wazoo, and finally completes with exercises.\u00a0 By the time you finish the first chapter you know what the Stockholm syndrome is, you learn of the history of hostage negotiation in war, you learn about prison sieges, and you are introduced to the language used in the book.\u00a0 Each chapter after that follows suit, goes from general principle to individual technique as if an individual paper to stand alone.\u00a0 I particularly found the chapters on negotiating with emotionally disturbed individuals, gathering intelligence, and negotiating within prisons vs. the public sectors very poignant as they describe clear cut how-to models to guide your negotiation.\u00a0 Although I must admit, all the chapters had a quality that defines them as top of the field.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you are in a position to train a negotiation team or become part of crisis negotiations, this book is the standard.\u00a0 It is the Grey\u2019s Anatomy of negotiations and a must read for any psychologist in this type of operational function or planning to get into crisis negotiations.\u00a0 It is also a good standard to read for psychologists, particularly police psychologists, doing therapy with police officers as one never knows when one might be in a position of having to talk to a suicidal officer with a gun.\u00a0\u00a0 I would even suggest it to psychologists working with officers that might be on this special assignment as it really gives great insight into the process of a negotiation and what the officer might deal with after a negotiation that has gone down bad.\u00a0 McMains and Mullins have made this text very complete and thorough and easy enough to understand and follow as a guide.\u00a0 There really is no better book in the field of crisis and hostage negotiations.<\/span><\/p>\n

And if you contact them they may even give you their barbecue recipes.\u00a0 This might just get you in the right mood while you read.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Gary S. Aumiller, Ph.D.\u00a0 ABPP<\/span><\/p>\n

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I have been honored to give keynote addresses at a couple conferences for the Texas Hostage Negotiators and the FBI Crisis Teams and found them to be a very different type of cop.\u00a0 They are humble but at the same time show a lot of confidence.\u00a0 They have a way of expressing themselves that lets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17168876],"tags":[17168796,17168798,17168801,17168802,17168797],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book-review","tag-hostage-negotiation","tag-how-to","tag-police-officer","tag-police-psychology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11,"url":"http:\/\/policepsychologyblog.com\/?p=11","url_meta":{"origin":54,"position":0},"title":"Book Review: “Psychological Aspects of Crisis Negotiation”","author":"Gary Aumiller","date":"January 8, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"What hits you first is the organization of the material.\u00a0 When I read Psychological Aspects of Crisis Negotiation by Thomas Strenz (Taylor and Francis Publishers, Boca Raton, Fla. 2006), I didn\u2019t expect to see what I saw.\u00a0 I guess I expected another rehashing of hostage negotiation materials, but what I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Books"","block_context":{"text":"Books","link":"http:\/\/policepsychologyblog.com\/?cat=17168876"},"img":{"alt_text":"Thomas Strenz","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/policepsychologyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/strenz-199x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1356,"url":"http:\/\/policepsychologyblog.com\/?p=1356","url_meta":{"origin":54,"position":1},"title":"Sports to Law Enforcement: Seven Success Lessons from Sports","author":"Gary Aumiller","date":"March 30, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Sports to Law Enforcement: Seven Success Lessons from Sports \u00a0Guest Blogger Dr. Bill Cottringer has worked and taught in the criminal justice field for over 50 years and currently serves as Executive VP for Puget Sound Security companies in Bellevue, WA.\u00a0 He has published 9 books and over 250 professional\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Mastering Effort"","block_context":{"text":"Mastering Effort","link":"http:\/\/policepsychologyblog.com\/?cat=17168880"},"img":{"alt_text":"Rugby, police psychology","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/policepsychologyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Rugby-188x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3012,"url":"http:\/\/policepsychologyblog.com\/?p=3012","url_meta":{"origin":54,"position":2},"title":"Police Psychology | Get Thee to a Conference","author":"Gary Aumiller","date":"June 17, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Police Psychology | Get Thee to a Conference by Gary S. 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