Three challenges facing police psychologists when performing an indirect assessment of an armed and barricaded subject of a Crisis Negotiation Team activation are (1) the limited amount of information available, (2) the typically very short amount of time in which to perform the assessment, and (3) the need to simultaneously consider the professional ethical issues inherent in the situation. Sharing some of the burden with well-trained crisis negotiators equipped with a non-clinical, uncomplicated system for generating useful hypotheses regarding a subject’s emotional state during the activation and the subject’s emotional capacity when not in crisis can supplement and contribute meaningfully to the assessment. The Emotional Age Estimate responds to the challenges of limited information and time. It aims at contributing a useful supplement to the process of generating an indirect assessment of the subject. The first step is conceptualizing the subject’s current and ongoing behavior as unremarkable for someone with the emotional development of a 2-, 4-, or 6-year-old. The second step is conceptualizing the subject’s behavior on a typical day as demonstrating the capacity of someone with the emotional development of at least a 4-, 15-, or 21-year-old (based on reports by family members, friends, and associates) and other sources of information (criminal history, mental health history, etc.).

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情感年龄估计-对危机谈判小组活动主题的间接评估的补充

在对危机谈判小组的武装和受阻对象进行间接评估时，警察心理学家面临的三个挑战是：（1）可用信息量有限；（2）通常评估时间很短， （3）需要同时考虑这种情况固有的职业道德问题。与训练有素的危机谈判者分担一些负担，这些谈判者配备了非临床，简单的系统，可以生成关于受试者在激活期间的情绪状态以及受试者处于非危机状态时的情绪能力的有用假设，从而可以补充评估并对其做出有意义的贡献。情绪年龄估算可以应对信息和时间有限的挑战。它旨在为对该主题进行间接评估的过程提供有用的补充。第一步是将对象的当前和正在进行的行为概念化，使其对于2岁，4岁或6岁情绪发育的人来说并不明显。第二步是将对象在通常的一天中的行为概念化，以证明其具有至少4岁，15岁或21岁的情感发展能力的人（根据家人，朋友和同事的报告） ）和其他信息来源（犯罪史，心理健康史等）。