ABSTRACT
During the last three decades, many professional discussions and opinions have been presented at conferences and in the literature about the potential negative effect of police work on couples and family relationships. There appears to be general consensus that training police couples, their families, and/or individual officers in the area of “police stress inoculation,” along with confidential counseling as an early intervention, is appropriate in order to prevent poor work performance, domestic violence, divorce, and even suicide when at least one partner is working in the law enforcement field. However, limited data support this concept, and few research studies focus on police couples (Bartlett, 2004).
