CJS39000/CJS3900 - Responding to Critical Issues in Law Enforcement Related to Behavioral Health

(3 units)

This course, using a trauma informed cultural response will engage students to respond to calls for service that involve behavioral health emergencies. Practice skills will be developed to respond to crisis behavior, distinguish between substance, medical or situational causes of crisis behavior to include suicide and other high-risk situations (e.g., mood, psychoses, substance use, excited delirium, acute agitation, medical comorbidity). Stages and cycles of crisis escalation and desecration will be mastered.