Ep.22 Suicide Prevention: Breaking the Stigmas with Marla Friedman, PhD

Police clinical psychologist, Chairman of Badge of Life, international trainer, curriculum developer, and publisher on issues of mental health, Marla Friedman PhD talks about mental health, trauma healing, and suicide prevention for police and first responders. Providing support and treatment for law enforcement officers struggling with PTSD, anxiety, and treatment-resistant depression. The importance of mental health support and suicide prevention for police, dispatchers, firefighters, ER docs, and nurses and the need to optimize education and training in promoting physical and emotional self-care. The importance of making mental health check-ins a standard best practice in order to break the stigmas attached to mental health support.

MARLA FRIEDMAN, PSYD Dr. Marla W. Friedman is a Police/Clinical Psychologist and Chairman of Badge of Life. She is an international trainer, curriculum developer and creates training films for law enforcement. She publishes on issues of mental health, trauma cessation and suicide prevention for police and other first responders. She has trained for the FBI at the National Academy in Quantico VA., ICAC, F TO’s and police departments with her, Building A Better Cop and A Sip of Poison programs. She is adjunct faculty member at the College of DuPage Police Academy (SLEA) She has 35+ years of clinical experience, is fluent in Sign Language and serves the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community. She is trained in offender profiling, detection of deception and interview and interrogation (Reid). She has earned her certification in Investigative Psychology from John J. College of Criminal Justice (NYC). She currently works on cold case missing persons and homicide investigations.

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