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2 J. Police Crisis Negot. 1 (2002)

handle is hein.journals/wpcn2 and id is 1 raw text is: EDITORIAL Theory and Practice: Finding the Balance It has been said that life is not so much a process of learning a number of lessons as it is a process of learning the same lesson a number of times. I would like to share two life experiences that taught and retaught me a lesson that we will try and make a part of our editorial approach to this journal. When I took my first field assignment in the Army, I was sent to run a Mental Health Clinic at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. I had a very talented staff. Two of them had been drafted out of graduate school 6 months before they had completed their PhD in Psychology. Three had Masters De- grees in Psychology and one had a Masters Degree in English. Finally, one had a five-year Bachelors degree that he had earned in part by work- ing full time on a ward at a Mental Hospital in Boston. One of our tasks at the Clinic was to assess GIs who were having dif- ficulty adjusting to Army life, writing a report for the GI's Commander, and recommending interventions designed to keep the trooper in the Army, if possible. The first time I reviewed the staffs work, I sent the draft reports they had written back to them looking like I had slit my Journal of Police Crisis Negotiations, Vol. 2(1) 2002 @ 2002 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved. 1

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