ABSTRACT
During the last 3 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 offi cers in the area of “police stress inoculation,” along with confi dential 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 fi eld. However, limited data support this concept, and few research studies focus on police couples (Bartlett, 2004).
