The Memphis Model:
The Memphis Police Department Crisis Intervention Team
The Memphis Police Department Crisis Intervention Team
Thomas M. Kirchberg, Ph.D., ABPP
Chief Psychologist
VA Medical Center Memphis
Dr. Thomas M. Kirchberg is the Chief Psychologist at the Memphis VA Medical Center. He received a doctorate in Psychology from the University of Memphis, is Board Certified in Clinical Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP), and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Clinical Psychology.
He was President of the Association of VA Psychologist Leaders (AVAPL) 2015-16.
Dr. Kirchberg was the EAP Director at the VA Medical Center for eleven years. He was a member of the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Justice Outreach Steering Committee and Law Enforcement Sub-committee which the laid the foundation for Veterans Courts across the United States.
He provided psychological services and resident and intern supervision for The University of Tennessee Health Science Center for eight years in the Psychiatric Emergency Room and Consult Liaison at Regional One Health, Memphis.
He is an instructor in verbal de-escalation for the Memphis Police Department Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) and a national trainer for the University of Memphis CIT Center. He has provided crisis de-escalation training and consultation for law enforcement and mental health agencies across the United States. He served as a Board Member of CIT International from 2010 to 2015.
Dr. Kirchberg has been providing critical incident services for the Memphis Police Department and Memphis Fire Department since 1996.
Dr. Kirchberg served in the United States Peace Corps, Ethiopia, as a secondary school instructor and as a United Nations Famine Relief Administrator.
Dr. Kirchberg was awarded The Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Service Award for Memphis and Shelby County Tennessee by St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church in 2016 for his work in crisis de-escalation with law enforcement officers.
In August 2017 he was the first recipient of the Lorraine Greene Award for Social Justice from Division 18, Psychologists in Public Service, of the American Psychological Association.
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Chief Psychologist
VA Medical Center Memphis
Dr. Thomas M. Kirchberg is the Chief Psychologist at the Memphis VA Medical Center. He received a doctorate in Psychology from the University of Memphis, is Board Certified in Clinical Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP), and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Clinical Psychology.
He was President of the Association of VA Psychologist Leaders (AVAPL) 2015-16.
Dr. Kirchberg was the EAP Director at the VA Medical Center for eleven years. He was a member of the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Justice Outreach Steering Committee and Law Enforcement Sub-committee which the laid the foundation for Veterans Courts across the United States.
He provided psychological services and resident and intern supervision for The University of Tennessee Health Science Center for eight years in the Psychiatric Emergency Room and Consult Liaison at Regional One Health, Memphis.
He is an instructor in verbal de-escalation for the Memphis Police Department Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) and a national trainer for the University of Memphis CIT Center. He has provided crisis de-escalation training and consultation for law enforcement and mental health agencies across the United States. He served as a Board Member of CIT International from 2010 to 2015.
Dr. Kirchberg has been providing critical incident services for the Memphis Police Department and Memphis Fire Department since 1996.
Dr. Kirchberg served in the United States Peace Corps, Ethiopia, as a secondary school instructor and as a United Nations Famine Relief Administrator.
Dr. Kirchberg was awarded The Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Service Award for Memphis and Shelby County Tennessee by St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church in 2016 for his work in crisis de-escalation with law enforcement officers.
In August 2017 he was the first recipient of the Lorraine Greene Award for Social Justice from Division 18, Psychologists in Public Service, of the American Psychological Association.
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