The police fight a different kind of war, and the enemy is the police officer¹s own civilian population: those who engage in crime, social indignity, and inhumane treatment of others. The result for the police officer is both physical and psychological battering, occasionally culminating in the officer sacrificing his or her life to protect others. This book focuses on the psychological impact of police civilian combat. During a police career, the men and women of police agencies are exposed to distressing events that go far beyond the experience of the ordinary citizen, and there is an increased need today to help police officers deal with these traumatic experiences. As police work becomes increasingly complex, this need will grow. Mental health and other professionals need to be made aware of the conditions and precipitants of trauma stress among the police. The goal of this book is to provide that important information. The book¹s perspective is based on the idea that trauma stress is a product of complex interaction of person, place, situation, support mechanisms, and interventions. To effectively communicate this to the reader, new conceptual and methodological considerations, essays on special groups in policing, and innovative ideas on recovery and treatment of trauma are presented. This information can be used to prevent or minimize trauma stress and to help in establishing improved support and therapeutic measures for police officers. Contributions in the book are from professionals who work with police officers, and in some cases those who are or have been police officers, to provide the reader with different perspectives. Chapters are grouped into three sections: conceptual and methodological issues, special police groups, and recovery and treatment. The book concludes with a discussion of issues and identifies future directions for conceptualization, assessment, intervention, and effective treatment of psychological trauma in policing.
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The title of this book is drawn from the similarity between military combat and civilian police work that led Williams (1987) to describe police officers as being involved in peacetime combat: "for cops, the war never ends ... they are out there 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to protect and serve, to fight the criminal ... our peacetime enemy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
police compassion fatigue, stressful occupational events, police suicide rates, traumatic reactivity, spouse control group, police stressors, police survivors, critical incident program, family burnout, police spouses, peer support team, critical occupations, compassion stress, police suicides, peacetime combat, trauma membrane, organizational stressors, law enforcement families, farewell ritual, secondary traumatic stress, civilian combat, multigenerational legacies, posttraumatic growth, traumatized families, police role Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Journal of Traumatic Stress, New Zealand, Government Printing Office, United States, American Journal of Psychiatry, Green Ramp, Lawrence Erlbaum, Nazi Holocaust, San Francisco, The Star, Concerns of Police Survivors, Psychological Reports, Archives of General Psychiatry, Colonel Plewes, Fort Bragg, Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Home Office, Academic Press, American Psychiatric Association, American Psychiatric Press, Basic Books, Officer Kelly, South Africa New!
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The title of this book is drawn from the similarity between military combat and civilian police work that led Williams (1987) to describe police officers as being involved in peacetime combat: "for cops, the war never ends ... they are out there 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to protect and serve, to fight the criminal ... our peacetime enemy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
police compassion fatigue, stressful occupational events, police suicide rates, traumatic reactivity, spouse control group, police stressors, police survivors, critical incident program, family burnout, police spouses, peer support team, critical occupations, compassion stress, police suicides, peacetime combat, trauma membrane, organizational stressors, law enforcement families, farewell ritual, secondary traumatic stress, civilian combat, multigenerational legacies, posttraumatic growth, traumatized families, police role Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Journal of Traumatic Stress, New Zealand, Government Printing Office, United States, American Journal of Psychiatry, Green Ramp, Lawrence Erlbaum, Nazi Holocaust, San Francisco, The Star, Concerns of Police Survivors, Psychological Reports, Archives of General Psychiatry, Colonel Plewes, Fort Bragg, Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Home Office, Academic Press, American Psychiatric Association, American Psychiatric Press, Basic Books, Officer Kelly, South Africa New!
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- Social Psychology by Elliot Aronson on page 34, page 35, and page 187
- Social Psychology (Basic topics in psychology) by Leon Mann on page 35, and page 76
- Health and Safety (Statutory Instruments) by The Stationery Office in Front Matter, and page 268
- Stress Inoculation Training (Psychology Practitioner Guidebooks) on page 278, and page 288
- Studyguide for Social Psychology by Taylor, ISBN 9780130990068 (Cram101 Textbook Outlines) by Cram101 Textbook Reviews on page 35, and page 240
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- Psychology and Policing (Policing and Society) by Peter Ainsworth on page 132, and Back Matter
- Emotional and Physiological Processes and Intervention Strategies, Volume 3 (Research in Occupational Stress and Well Being) by PERREWE on page 46
- Violence at Work by MARTIN GILL on page 206
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