Joseph Fountain

传记

Joseph Fountain spent his childhood in Southern California, Egypt 和 Malaysia, before settling in Seattle for high school. He studied international relations before he was commissioned as an Army infantry officer, where he graduated from Airborne School 和 the Ranger Course 和 served in the 7^th Infantry Division.

He then spent 25 years with the Seattle Police Department as a patrol officer, SWAT operator 和 team leader, 和 tactics instructor. His last five years in law enforcement he supervised the Crisis Response Team (阴极射线管) as a detective sergeant. 阴极射线管, comprised of three detectives 和 a mental health professional specially trained to work with persons in crisis or with severe, chronic mental illness, afforded Sergeant Fountain an opportunity to collaborate with treatment 和 assessment professionals.

Fountain served as an expert witness in federal civil cases that involved police use-of-force. He presented testimony on the effects of human performance factors, such as vision, reaction time, acute stress response 和 rapid versus deliberate cognition, in force encounters. He also provides expert forensic opinions on crisis intervention 和 police response to persons with symptomatic mental illness.

In 2010, he took early retirement to pursue his longtime dream of teaching psychology at a two-year college. While in his clinical psychology master’s program, he spent a year-long practicum treating combat veterans with severe PTSD. His thesis, “Will I Follow You into the Dark?”: Effects of Celebrity Suicide on Suicide-Attempt Rates, investigated celebrity suicide contagion differential effects on suicide death 和 attempts.

Fountain has two adult daughters, a hospitality management professional 和 a college senior 和 IT entrepreneur. He lives in a log cabin home in 楼下 with his dog, Kuri, who looks like a fox-coyote mix. He enjoys theater 和 has played title roles in 美 & 野兽 和 《乐天堂app》, 和 as Daddy Warbucks in 安妮. Fountain also enjoys st和-up paddleboarding 和 SUP-surfing, reading Harry Potter novels by the fire, creating crossword puzzles 和 humor in all forms.

度

• Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, Seattle University
• Master of Science in Clinical Psychology, Eastern Washington University