Improving mental fitness reports of candidates for police officer and fire fighter.
On the basis of 18 years of experience on the Medical Review Panel of the New Jersey Department of Personnel, the author points out some shortcomings commonly observed in psychological/psychiatric evaluative reports on mental fitness of police officer and fire fighter candidates. Each shortcoming is noted under one of two headings, i.e., routine information or inferences.
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Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway 08854-5635, USA.
D005390:Fires; D006801:Humans; D008603:Mental Health; D009515:New Jersey; D016272:Occupational Health; D009786:Occupational Health Services; D010552:Personality Assessment; D012926:Social Control, Formal