Counseling services provided to police after a stressful situation are called?

• A. Sensitization training
• B. Police work (stress)
• C. Critical-incident debriefing
• D. Public and community

Answer: (C)

After a traumatic or highly stressful police incident, departments often arrange a structured support session to help officers process what happened, express their reactions, and learn coping strategies. This focused counseling approach is known as critical-incident debriefing. The aim is to normalize that strong emotional response, facilitate cognitive processing of the event, and reduce the risk of longer-term distress such as PTSD.

Sensitization training is about preparing for stress by increasing awareness or reactivity to cues, rather than post-incident support. Police work stress refers to the general stressors inherent in policing, not a formal counseling service. Public and community relates to outreach and relations with the public, not internal counseling.