Download or read book POWER written by Konstantinos Papazoglou and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. With forewords authored by Dr. John Violanti (Distinguished Police Research Professor) and Dr. Tracie Keesee, Vice President of the Center of Policing Equity, 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. - Platinum Award Winner 2019, Homeland Security Awards - American Security Today - Provides reader with evidence-based strategies to promote officer wellness - Covers compassion fatigue, moral injury, PTSD, operational stress, and more - Written by established scholars and professionals from a law enforcement context

Download or read book Health Safety and Wellness Program Case Studies in Law Enforcement written by Joseph B. Kuhns and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this publication, the Major Cities Chiefs Association and the U.S. Department of Justice's Officer Safety and Wellness (OSW) Group present four recent case studies that serve as models for safety, health, and wellness programs focused on the physical and psychological health of officers. The OSW Group conducted site visits, assessed programs, and questioned participants to identify practical strategies for reducing the incidence of diabetes, promoting physical fitness, providing rehabilitation services, and addressing other health issues.

Download or read book Officer Safety written by Laura King and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are a police officer, you need to read this book... it just might save your life. Each year, law enforcement loses more officers to suicide than to all line-of-duty causes of death combined. To stop this from happening, the concept of Officer Safety needs to be redefined to address both the physical and psychological threats that are the realities of our profession. This book will help prepare officers to meet both the physical and psychological challenges they will encounter when they choose a career in law enforcement.Over time, the stress, negativity and traumatic events an officer sees repeatedly during the course of a law enforcement career can compromise the officer's psychological resiliency. Unaddressed, this can create problems in both the officer's personal and professional life. This book will help officers learn how to:- remain psychologically strong- meet the psychological threats of the profession-avoid other rampant issues within the profession, such as alcoholism, divorce, and poor health conditions-protect their resiliency, health, and happiness at work and at home. Chief Laura LV King has been a police officer for 26 years. She's a professional speaker and trainer on mental wellness and psychological resiliency for police organizations throughout the country. In addition to her personal experience in law enforcement, King has spent years researching mental wellness specifically for law enforcement professionals. Mental wellness is not "soft stuff," it is a matter of life and death."This is information every officer must know to survive their career. It is no longer enough that we go home at the end of our shift. We deserve to go home healthy, happy, and a well-adjusted human being."- Dr. Laura LV King

Download or read book Emotional Survival for Law Enforcement written by Kevin M. Gilmartin and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to help law enforcement professionals overcome the internal assaults they experience both personally and organizationally over the course of their careers. These assaults can transform idealistic and committed officers into angry, cynical individuals, leading to significant problems in both their personal and professional lives.

Download or read book Roll Call written by Bobby Kipper and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by two seasoned law enforcement professionals, Bobby Kipper and Joe St. John, Roll Call is a Christian Spiritual Guide for other law enforcement professionals. Police work is a stressful and often dangerous job that puts a burden on the individual that most people will never understand. It also forces the police officer to see the world in a very real light and that light is not always positive. Kipper and St. John understand the challenges to staying spiritual in an often-harsh world. It is easy to lose focus on a loving and caring God in the midst of turmoil. It is easy to lose hope when a person sees so much hopelessness. Roll Call is as an easy-to-carry book that an officer can read in these troubling times. During a break from all the chaos, the officer can read a quick chapter and refocus on a loving God and the peace of Jesus. Roll Call is a “no-nonsense” book that places the Christian Faith in the forefront of the officers’ lives. In these drastic times of today and with the problems facing law enforcement, there is no better time for the faith community to have a police “Roll Call.”

Download or read book Force Under Pressure written by Lawrence N. Blum and published by Lantern Books. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Force Under Pressure, Dr. Lawrence Blum, who has devoted his life's work to the survival and wellness of "those who serve," describes the sources of danger, injuries, and victory to police officers in a down-to-earth, readable style. Blum argues that there are missing "ingredients" in the training and socialization of police officers. These ingredients include techniques and tools to condition the officer's decision-making and concentration during conditions of emergency; internal controls necessary to maintain the will to survive; and aids that will prevent officers being defeated by any threat. Distressing and/or disturbing physical and psychological reactions are common in a police officer's workday, and the officer must be prepared for them. Blum's work has uncovered many of the casues of compromise to officer safety and wellness, and he contends that police officers will be well prepared to cope with unanticipated or rapidly changing encounters if they possess the right tools and the know-how to command and control field encounters and life's pressures. Here Blum provides practical tools for survival in law enforcement, by combining his clinical knowledge with true stories of police officers for an attention-grabbing and informative book.

Download or read book Police in America written by Steven G. Brandl and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2017-01-25 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Police in America provides students with a comprehensive and realistic introduction to modern policing in our society. Utilizing real-word examples grounded in evidence-based research, this easy-to-read, conversational text helps students think critically about the many misconceptions of police work and understand best practices in everyday policing. Respected scholar and author Steven G. Brandl draws from his experience in law enforcement to emphasize the positive aspects of policing without sugar-coating the controversies of police work. Brandl tackles important topics that center on one question: “What is good policing?” This includes discussions of discretion, police use of force, and tough ethical and moral dilemmas—giving students a deeper look into the complex issues of policing to help them think more broadly about its impact on society. Students will walk away from this text with a well-developed understanding of the complex role of police in our society, an appreciation of the challenges of policing, and an ability to differentiate fact from fiction relating to law enforcement.

Download or read book Good Cop Good Cop written by Brian Casey and published by . This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Counseling Cops written by Ellen Kirschman and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grounded in clinical research, extensive experience, and deep familiarity with police culture, this book offers highly practical guidance for psychotherapists and counselors. The authors vividly depict the pressures and challenges of police work and explain the impact that line-of-duty issues can have on officers and their loved ones. Numerous concrete examples and tips show how to build rapport with cops, use a range of effective intervention strategies, and avoid common missteps and misconceptions. Approaches to working with frequently encountered clinical problems--such as substance abuse, depression, trauma, and marital conflict--are discussed in detail. A new preface in the paperback and e-book editions highlights the book's relevance in the context of current events and concerns about police-community relations. See also Kirschman's related self-help guide I Love a Cop, Third Edition: What Police Families Need to Know, an ideal recommendation for clients and their family members.

Download or read book DYING FOR THE JOB written by John M. Violanti and published by Charles C Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When one thinks of police work, the immediate danger of this occupation comes to mind—the everyday threat of violence, death, and witnessing traumatic events in their work. Less noted however is the physical and psychological danger associated with police work, including harmful environmental exposure, stress and trauma. Based on research, the adverse health and psychological consequences of this occupation far outweigh the dangers of the street. The primary purpose of this book is therefore to focus on these less known, less talked about dangers in policing. The mental well-being, health, and average life span of police officers appear to be affected by these factors. Hence, the title –“dying for the job”—reflects not so much the danger on the street but the hidden health dangers associated with policing. Many of the researchers who contributed to this book are epidemiologists and biostatisticians who are part of a National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) CDC five-year research study on police health titled “BCOPS”—the Buffalo Cardio-Metabolic Occupational Police Stress study. Still other contributors are experts in cancer, cardiovascular disease and psychological trauma. Recent events such as 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, the Sandy Hook school tragedy, and the Boston Marathon bombings emphasize the need to have a vibrant, healthy police force. It is necessary to maintain a high level of reliability by initiating health and stress prevention efforts. Chapters include: an examination of harmful physical work exposures; health disparities among police officers; cardiovascular risk in law enforcement; risk of cancer incidence and mortality among police officers; shift work and health consequences in policing; stressors and associated health effects for women police officers; suicide; post-traumatic stress disorder; resilience in policing; and PTSD symptoms, psychobiology, and coexisting disorders in police officers. Both law enforcement practitioners and administrators alike will benefit from reading this book.

Download or read book POLICE TRAUMA written by John M. Violanti and published by Charles C Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The police fight a different kind of war, and the enemy is the police officer's 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 book's 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.

Download or read book Police Officer Exam written by Donald Schroeder and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 1467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rated "Best of the Best" in Police Exam Prep Books by BestReviews, September 2018 This updated manual presents information, practice tests, and strategies for the different question types used by police departments throughout the country. It includes: Four full-length practice exams with all questions answered and explained Two official exams given by a large metropolitan police department Streamlining of chapters to more closely reflect the latest question types currently in use General strategies for dealing with multiple-choice questions and specific strategies for taking computer-based multiple-choice tests, as well as for taking the traditional paper/pencil multiple-choice exam All important time management strategies New reading comprehension question types, plus strategies for answering these questions An additional diagnostic exam presents questions like those that have appeared on recent entry-level exams used by police departments across the country. Also included are test-taking tips for all question types, suggested rules for effective study, and a detailed description of a police officer’s duties. Updated chapters take into account the recent trend by police departments to rely on oral interviews and computerized testing when selecting police officers.

Download or read book Street Survival II written by Lt. James Glennon and published by Calibre Press. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book that could save a police officer’s life, career and the life of the citizens officers encounter on the job. The “Bible of Law Enforcement Training” is what the 1980 first edition of Street Survival was considered throughout the profession. Street Survival II: Tactics for Deadly Force Encounters, written by Lt. Jim Glennon, Lt. Dan Marcou with the original author Chuck Remsberg, has a new, sleek, modern look. While paying homage to the original, the update includes more than 200 colored photos and diagrams and delves into the profession's many changes over the past three decades. It includes tactics, effective street communication, detecting preattack indicators, public expectations, the issue of Guardian and Warrior roles, and especially preparing for the realities of force events.

Download or read book Increasing Resilience in Police and Emergency Personnel written by Stephanie M. Conn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasing Resilience in Police and Emergency Personnel illuminates the psychological, emotional, behavioral, and spiritual impact of police work on police officers, administrators, emergency communicators, and their families. Author Stephanie Conn, a clinician and researcher as well as a former police officer and dispatcher, debunks myths about weakness and offers practical strategies in plain language for police employees and their families struggling with traumatic stress and burnout. Sections of each chapter also offer guidance for frequently overlooked roles such as police administrators and civilian police employees. Using real-world anecdotes and exercises, this book provides strengths-based guidance to help navigate the many complex and sometimes difficult effects of police and emergency work.

Download or read book Proud Police Wife written by Rebecca Lynn and published by BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hope for Today Strength for Tomorrow When your husband is a police officer, you experience a unique set of challenges and fears that others may not understand. Rest assured that you can still find peace and joy every day with God by your side. Proud Police Wife is the perfect resource for any police wife or future wife in need of hope, encouragement, comfort, and strength. Each devotion includes · applicable Scriptures, · relatable stories, · empowering action steps, and · uplifting prayers. Strengthen your relationship with God and gain confidence in your role as the heart behind the badge. Wait patiently for the Lord. Be brave and courageous. Yes, wait patiently for the Lord. Psalm 27:14 NLT

Download or read book Police in America written by Steven G. Brandl and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Police in America, Third Edition provides a comprehensive and realistic introduction to modern-day policing in the United States. Addressing controversies, ethical dilemmas, and best practices, it encourages students to think critically about policing′s impact on society.

Download or read book Critical Government Documents on Law and Order written by Don Philpott and published by Bernan Press. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Government Documents on Law and Order reviews of many law and order issues facing us today. The book does not offer any new science not attempt to take sides. It is, however, an attempt to gather together information from as many sources as possible so that you, the reader, don’t have to. It presents arguments for and against the issues covered so that the reader can come to his or her own conclusions. Areas covered include the threat from domestic and international terrorism and the growth of extremist militias, the increase in school place and workplace violence, relationships between police and the public, and how people can protect themselves from being victims of crime. About the Series: TheCritical Documents Series looks at critical issues of our times. It provides non-partisan information with no spin about critical players, events, and information from and about Washington from as many sources as possible — from scientific journals and government reports to political manifestos and lobby group publications. It presents arguments for and against the issues covered so that you the reader can come to your own conclusions.