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Exploring Mental Health Stigma Among Law Enforcement Officers, Nicholas D. Chestnut Oct 2025

Exploring Mental Health Stigma Among Law Enforcement Officers, Nicholas D. Chestnut

FDLA Journal

This applied dissertation investigates the prevalence and impact of mental health stigma among law enforcement officers (LEOs) in the United States. Despite growing awareness of the importance of mental health in the law enforcement community, stigma surrounding mental illness remains a significant barrier to help-seeking behaviors among officers. The study employed a research design that examined attitudes, perceptions, and experiences related to mental health stigma among LEOs.

Through online self-assessment surveys administered via a secure portal, participants provided insights into their attitudes toward mental illness, perceptions of stigma, and willingness to seek help for mental health concerns.

Data analysis revealed …


Preference Conflict And Peace Studies: The Line Between Disagreement And Violence, Frederic R. Kellogg May 2024

Preference Conflict And Peace Studies: The Line Between Disagreement And Violence, Frederic R. Kellogg

Peace and Conflict Studies

Broadening the definition of conflict defines more comprehensively the condition of peace, focusing on how unresolved shared disagreements can lead to, or avoid, polarization and violence. The line between general disagreement and violent conflict lies in the adjustment of shared preferences. Matters like reproductive rights, medically assisted death, race and gender discrimination, while subject to political polarization, are open to peaceful redress through what John Dewey called the transformative continuum of inquiry, in which the crucial social response to shared problems includes dispute and conflict. Resolution of controversial social problems requires preference adjustment and habit change, often, if not always, …


Broadly Speaking - November, 2019, Nova Southeastern University Nov 2019

Broadly Speaking - November, 2019, Nova Southeastern University

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Broadly Speaking - May, 2019, Nova Southeastern University May 2019

Broadly Speaking - May, 2019, Nova Southeastern University

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Broadly Speaking - Fall 2018, Nova Southeastern University Oct 2018

Broadly Speaking - Fall 2018, Nova Southeastern University

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Broadly Speaking - April, 2002, Nova Southeastern University Apr 2002

Broadly Speaking - April, 2002, Nova Southeastern University

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Broadly Speaking - January, 2002, Nova Southeastern University Jan 2002

Broadly Speaking - January, 2002, Nova Southeastern University

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Broadly Speaking - November, 2001, Nova Southeastern University Nov 2001

Broadly Speaking - November, 2001, Nova Southeastern University

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Broadly Speaking - March, 2001, Nova Southeastern University Mar 2001

Broadly Speaking - March, 2001, Nova Southeastern University

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Broadly Speaking - January, 2001, Nova Southeastern University Jan 2001

Broadly Speaking - January, 2001, Nova Southeastern University

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Broadly Speaking - October, 2000, Nova Southeastern University Oct 2000

Broadly Speaking - October, 2000, Nova Southeastern University

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Broadly Speaking - May, 2000, Nova Southeastern University May 2000

Broadly Speaking - May, 2000, Nova Southeastern University

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Broadly Speaking - April, 2000, Nova Southeastern University Apr 2000

Broadly Speaking - April, 2000, Nova Southeastern University

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Broadly Speaking - February, 2000, Nova Southeastern University Feb 2000

Broadly Speaking - February, 2000, Nova Southeastern University

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Broadly Speaking - December, 1999, Nova Southeastern University Dec 1999

Broadly Speaking - December, 1999, Nova Southeastern University

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Broadly Speaking - November, 1999, Nova Southeastern University Nov 1999

Broadly Speaking - November, 1999, Nova Southeastern University

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Broadly Speaking - October, 1999, Nova Southeastern University Oct 1999

Broadly Speaking - October, 1999, Nova Southeastern University

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Broadly Speaking - August 19, 1999, Nova Southeastern University Aug 1999

Broadly Speaking - August 19, 1999, Nova Southeastern University

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Broadly Speaking - March, 1999, Nova Southeastern University Mar 1999

Broadly Speaking - March, 1999, Nova Southeastern University

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Broadly Speaking - February, 1999, Nova Southeastern University Feb 1999

Broadly Speaking - February, 1999, Nova Southeastern University

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Broadly Speaking - October 16, 1998, Nova Southeastern University Oct 1998

Broadly Speaking - October 16, 1998, Nova Southeastern University

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Broadly Speaking - August 24, 1998, Nova Southeastern University Aug 1998

Broadly Speaking - August 24, 1998, Nova Southeastern University

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Broadly Speaking - April 27, 1998, Nova Southeastern University Apr 1998

Broadly Speaking - April 27, 1998, Nova Southeastern University

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Broadly Speaking - April, 1998, Nova Southeastern University Apr 1998

Broadly Speaking - April, 1998, Nova Southeastern University

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Broadly Speaking - March 30, 1998, Nova Southeastern University Mar 1998

Broadly Speaking - March 30, 1998, Nova Southeastern University

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Broadly Speaking - February 17, 1998, Nova Southeastern University Feb 1998

Broadly Speaking - February 17, 1998, Nova Southeastern University

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Broadly Speaking - January 26, 1998, Nova Southeastern University Jan 1998

Broadly Speaking - January 26, 1998, Nova Southeastern University

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Broadly Speaking - November 19, 1997, Nova Southeastern University Nov 1997

Broadly Speaking - November 19, 1997, Nova Southeastern University

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Broadly Speaking - October 15, 1997, Nova Southeastern University Oct 1997

Broadly Speaking - October 15, 1997, Nova Southeastern University

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Broadly Speaking - September 10, 1997, Nova Southeastern University Sep 1997

Broadly Speaking - September 10, 1997, Nova Southeastern University

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