【譯文】達拉斯警方開始「正念」訓練

Ａ Year After Slayings, Dallas Police Train in Mindfulness https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/07/06/us/ap-us-police-shootings-dallas.html

美聯社，2017年7月6日

達拉斯：五名執法人員遭遇伏擊的幾小時之後，心理健康專家就著手為這些保護著美國第九大城市的人們，尋找緩解方法來減少影響。

一年之後，不少達拉斯警員已經接受，或將接受特製的「正念」訓練和其他壓力管理技術。其目標是教授警員如何更好地理解並控制自己的情緒。

理查德·格林（Richard Goerling）是俄勒岡州的一名教授正念的警察中尉。他說，最強有力的事情正是你可以教授警員承認自己也是普通人。（ its OK to be human）

那次伏擊發生在抗議警察暴力的示威中。狙擊手是一名黑人陸軍退伍軍人。他想為被警察殺害的黑人報仇，後來他被警察擊斃。

更多請見詳細報道https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/07/07/us/ap-us-police-shootings-dallas.html，節選如下：

1.Hill provided money to pay for instruction in mindfulness and in another system known as cognitive training for 500 Dallas officers over the next year. The Center for Brain Health at the University of Texas at Dallas plans to study the effects of the training on their mental and physical health and their job performance.

2.The training has been done on a smaller scale in Seattle; Madison, Wisconsin; Cambridge, Massachusetts; and smaller California departments, among others. It aims to help officers recalibrate their responses to emotions so when in stressful situations, they can respond instead of react, Goerling said.

3."The nature of their work is overwhelming. Theres a constant influx of information all of the time, and its unpredictable," she said. The training is aimed at building up officers "cognitive reserve," which Zientz compared to "a brain bank."

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