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How to Pass Your Pre-Employment Psych Screening (without driving yourself nuts) Laurence Miller, PhD  Many prospective LEOs ask me if there’s any special “advice” I can offer about how to pass their agency’s pre-employment psychological evaluation.  So I’m going to offer some straightforward recommendations for giving the most positive and accurate representation of your abilities […]

Pre-employment Psychological Screening for Cops by Ellen Kirschman, Ph.D. I’ve been a police psychologist for thirty years; counseling, teaching, giving workshops, and writing books, both fiction and non-fiction.  In my first book, Burying Ben, my fictional alter-ego, Dr. Dot Meyerhoff, deals with a rookie Ben Gomez who kills himself and leaves a note blaming her (not a spoiler, you find […]

Police Psychology | How Do We Find and Divert Violence Before It Happens? Robert John Zagar PhD MPH and James Garbarino PhD Homicide, suicide or mass murder, are two sides of a coin. Violence is either directed at others or at oneself. So how do we find violence? Background checks miss violence 75% of the […]

Police Psychology | Thoughts on Fitness for Duty Evaluations by Elizabeth Thompson, Psy.D. Thompson & Associates Guest Blogger I received a telephone call from a Deputy Chief recently regarding the attempted suicide of an Officer that I had evaluated for Fitness for Duty over a year ago. The Officer had severe PTSD and could never […]

POLICE PSYCHOLOGY | FIT TO BE A COP?  HOW MUCH PSYCH TESTING IS ENOUGH? Laurence Miller, PhD BALTIMORE (Associated Press) — “A psychological firm paid to evaluate troubled Baltimore police, including a lieutenant charged in the killing of Freddie Gray, is under investigation by the city and has been put on probation by the state […]