POWER: Police Officer Wellness, Ethics, and Resilience

Konstantinos Papazoglou , Daniel M. Blumberg 지음

elsevier 2019년 11월 21일 출간

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Power: Police Officer Wellness, Ethics, and Resilience collectively presents the numerous psychic wounds experienced by peace officers in the line of duty, including compassion fatigue, moral injury, PTSD, operational stress injury, organizational and operational stress, and loss. Authors describe the negative repercussions of these psychic wounds in law enforcement decision-making, job performance, job satisfaction, and families. The book encompasses evidence-based strategies to assist law enforcement agencies in developing policy programs to promote wellness for their personnel. The evidence-based techniques presented allow officers to get a more tangible and better understanding of the techniques so that they apply those techniques when on and off-duty. This book is an excellent resource for police professionals, police wellness coordinators, early career researchers, mental health professionals who provide services to law enforcement officers and their families, and graduate students in psychology, forensic psychology, and criminal justice.Provides reader with evidence-based strategies to promote officer wellnessCovers compassion fatigue, moral injury, PTSD, operational stress, and moreWritten by established scholars and professionals from a law enforcement context

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Section 1: Foundation 1. Introduction & statement of the problem 2. Police officer wellness 3. Internal threats to police wellness 4. Implicit bias, officer wellness, and police training Section 2: Psychic wounds: consequences of a lack of personal wellness 5. The moral risks of policing 6. The neurobiology of police health, resilience, and wellness 7. Compassion Fatigue & burnout 8. Moral injury in law enforcement 9. PTSD and other operational stress injuries among police officers: empirical findings and reflections from clinical experience Section 3: Intervention?& Prevention 10. Creating a culture of wellness 11. Promoting wellness 12. The role of compassion satisfaction 13. Community Relations & Community-Oriented Policing 14. Closing thoughts

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??Trauma exposure within the policing and first responder environments can lead to real, de-habilitating psychological injuries if left untreated. Although there are no slings, crutches or bandages for such operational stress injuries the end consequences may lead to suicide ideation, attempts or actual completion contributing to disastrous consequences for the involved member, their family and loved ones, along with their colleagues and the community in which they serve. The authors of the book, POWER, provide an extensive collection of education, awareness, research and accessibility to evidence-based techniques that can provide members, their family and loved ones with the information, skills and coping strategies necessary for enjoying an exciting career armed with the knowledge by promoting wellness and healthy strategies that can be implemented via individuals and their respective organizations. This book will become required take home literature for ALL First Responders participating in our future Badge of Life Canada programming focusing on topics, such as moral injury, sanctuary trauma and perceived injustice.? - Sgt. Bill Rusk (Ret.), ?Executive Director, Badge of Life Canada ??Written by a powerful line up of experts in the field, many with years of hands-on experience, this book is a must read for anyone with a professional or personal interest in law enforcement. Offering an impressive breadth of coverage on topics related to police wellness, the editors and contributors present a comprehensive view of the many ways law enforcement personnel can be affected by the realities of the job. The authors also provide valuable insight and key strategies designed to promote a culture of individual and organizational wellness. This publication is a very welcome and important contribution to our field.? - Dr. Carolyn Burns, Registered Psychologist, over 30 years of experience working with first responders ??This i

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저자(글) Konstantinos Papazoglou

저자(글) Daniel M. Blumberg