caa a22 4500 445848723 CHVBK 20180317145406.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10597-011-9384-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10597-011-9384-y Development and Validation of the Mental Health Attitude Survey for Police [Elektronische Daten] [Jonathan Clayfield, Kenneth Fletcher, Albert Grudzinskas Jr.] Police officers often lack sufficient mental health training and knowledge of mental illness to manage the risks associated with emotionally disturbed person (EDP) encounters. Still, it is not clear how much mental health training police officers actually need and, to date, there are no measures for police departments to use to determine officer attitudes toward dealing with EDPs. This led to the development of the Mental Health Attitude Survey for Police (MHASP), a modification and compilation of previously developed and newly developed items, which can be used to measure the effectiveness of mental health crisis training curricula in improving police attitudes toward persons with mental illnesses. A sample of 412 police officers from a major city police department in the northeast anonymously completed the MHASP. The results provide good evidence that the MHASP is a reliable and initially validated measure of police attitudes toward persons with mental illnesses. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2011 Mental illness nationallicence Mentally ill nationallicence Police nationallicence Attitude survey nationallicence Emotionally disturbed persons nationallicence EDP nationallicence Mental health attitudes nationallicence Mental health training nationallicence Crisis intervention training nationallicence Clayfield Jonathan Department of Psychiatry, Center for Mental Health Services Research, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 Lake Avenue North, 01655-0002, Worcester, MA, USA aut Fletcher Kenneth Department of Psychiatry, Center for Mental Health Services Research, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 Lake Avenue North, 01655-0002, Worcester, MA, USA aut Grudzinskas Jr. Albert Department of Psychiatry, Center for Mental Health Services Research, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 Lake Avenue North, 01655-0002, Worcester, MA, USA aut Community Mental Health Journal Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 47/6(2011-12-01), 742-751 0010-3853 47:6<742 2011 47 10597 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-011-9384-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-011-9384-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Clayfield Jonathan Department of Psychiatry, Center for Mental Health Services Research, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 Lake Avenue North, 01655-0002, Worcester, MA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fletcher Kenneth Department of Psychiatry, Center for Mental Health Services Research, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 Lake Avenue North, 01655-0002, Worcester, MA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Grudzinskas Jr Albert Department of Psychiatry, Center for Mental Health Services Research, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 Lake Avenue North, 01655-0002, Worcester, MA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Community Mental Health Journal Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 47/6(2011-12-01), 742-751 0010-3853 47:6<742 2011 47 10597 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer