Mental health professionals assessing or treating first responders with mental illness should understand public safety jobs. This understanding can help professionals make accurate assessments and treatment plans that are meaningful, effective, and appropriate, said Dr. Krystle Martin in a presentation for the International Forensic Psychiatry Lecture Series.

First responders, also called public safety personnel, work in a variety of jobs. Among these jobs are police, paramedics, firefighters, military personnel, and corrections officers, as well as communications personnel and dispatchers for these services.

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