Feature Story: Professor to lead research team in RCMP study

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The University of Regina’s Dr. Nicholas Carleton will lead a multi-university, multi-expert group of researchers that will further examine the mental health of RCMP officers relating to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). “It’s a national project and it will be highly visible,” says Carleton, associate professor of Psychology. “Current mental health care systems in this area of PTSD are reactive with help coming too long after the injury has been sustained. That health-care model is economically unsustainable and morally insufficient.” Carleton’s views were published in the RCMP’s Gazette Magazine. He wrote that the project will translate into “actionable and measurable improvements – first for the RCMP, then for all first responders, and ultimately for all Canadians.”