Policing Stress on the Homefront

Policing Stress on the Homefront
Author: Dr. Jessica Burke Ph.D.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2019-05-02
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1728310377

Policing Stress on the Homefront was designed for police officers and the people who love them. This unique set of principles regards spouses and romantic partners as a critical component in mental health management. Learn how to mitigate the effects of repeated exposure to trauma as a partner, an officer, or as a team.

Policing Stress on the Homefront

Policing Stress on the Homefront
Author: Jessica Burke M. S.
Publisher:
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2019-05-02
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9781728310138

Policing Stress on the Homefront was designed for police officers and the people who love them. This unique set of principles regards spouses and romantic partners as a critical component in mental health management. Learn how to mitigate the effects of repeated exposure to trauma as a partner, an officer, or as a team.

On the Front Lines

On the Front Lines
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families
Publisher:
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1991
Genre: Government publications
ISBN:

Testimony from a Congressional hearing on police stress and how it affects the well-being of the officers, their families and their work, is presented in this document. An opening statement by Representative Patricia Schroeder is presented. Statements are included from Representatives Frank D. Riggs, George Miller, and Frank R. Wolf. Testimony and/or prepared statements from these individuals are included: (1) Beverly J. Anderson, clinical director/program administrator, the Metropolitan Police Employee Assistance Program, Washington, D.C.; (2) Anthony E. Daniels, assistant director, Training Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Quantico, Virginia; (3) Leanor Boulin Johnson, associate professor of family studies, Department of Family Resources and Human Development, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona; (4) Jeffrey A. King, officer and peer counselor coordinator, the Metropolitan Police Employee Assistance Program, Washington, D.C.; (5) James T. Reese, supervisory special agent, Assistant Unit Chief, Behavioral Science Services Unit, Training Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Quantico, Virginia; (6) Cathy Riggs, former police officer, Santa Rosa Police Department and wife of Representative Frank Riggs (former police officer), Santa Rosa, California; (7) Ellen Scrivner, director, Psychological Services Division, Prince George's County Police Department, Upper Marlboro, Maryland, and president elect, Division of Psychologists in Public Service, the American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.;, (8) Gary W. Sommers, sergeant, training services, Prince George's County Police Department, Landover, Maryland, accompanied by Kay Sommers, Landover, Maryland; (9) Aristedes W. Zavaras, chief, Denver Police Department, Denver, Colorado; (10) Suzanne F. Sawyer, executive director, Concerns of Police Survivors, Upper Marlboro, Maryland; and (11) William K. Stover, police chief, Arlington County Police Department, Arlington, Virginia. (ABL)

Handbook of Police Administration

Handbook of Police Administration
Author: James Ruiz
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2007-09-19
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1420016989

As figureheads of the most visible segment of criminal justice, today’s police administrators are forced to tackle challenges never faced by their predecessors. Heightened local and global threats, advanced technologies, and increased demands for procedural transparency require new levels of flexibility, innovative thinking, and the ability to foster and maintain relationships within the community. It is more crucial than ever to recruit and retain capable leaders to guide law enforcement agencies at this pivotal time in history. Covering areas such as leadership in policing, use of force, and understanding how the law shapes police practice, Handbook of Police Administration examines the key topics that must be considered by law enforcement professionals. Recognizing that police leaders need the skills and traits of a politician, accountant, attorney, field lieutenant, and futurist, the authors cover a variety of contemporary issues surrounding police administration and management. Divided into five thematic sections, it considers the legal aspects of overseeing a public sector organization, as well as how research, technology, and training can assist modern police leaders in performing their duties more effectively and efficiently. The book covers problematic issues such as officers accepting gratuities, undercover work, and the time criteria required for promotional consideration. It concludes with a chapter comparing administrative issues in Australia with many of the subjects previously addressed with regard to U.S. protocol. Using a range of perspective, differing viewpoints, and controversial issues, Handbook of Police Administration provides a springboard to stimulate discussion at the cutting-edge of debate in the dynamic field of policing.

Protecting the Home Front

Protecting the Home Front
Author: Michael Scheibach
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2017-09-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1476630631

Formed in 1951, the Federal Civil Defense Administration said that "the importance of women in civil defense can scarcely be overstated." Comprising 70 percent or more of civil defense workers at the height of the Cold War, American women served as FCDA wardens, auxiliary police, nurses, home preparedness advisors, coordinators of mass feeding drills, rescue and emergency management personnel, and in various local, state, regional and national organizations. The author examines the diverse roles they filled to promote homeland protection and preparedness at a time when atomic war was an imminent threat.

Stress in Policing

Stress in Policing
Author: Ronald J. Burke
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2016-07-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317049128

Stress in policing remains a serious concern for individual officers, their families, their organizations and society at large. As an editor of the Psychological and Behavioural Aspects of Risk series, Ronald J. Burke brings together the latest research findings and intervention strategies, shown to be effective, by an international group of experts. The contributors comprise of a group of high profile researchers and writers who are experts in their respective fields. This edited collection addresses such issues as: The increased risk of international terrorism Racial profiling Police Culture Police integrity Police suicide Inadequate police training The work of police officers exposes them to sources of stress that increase several risks in terms of their psychological and physical health, their family relationships, physical injuries, emotional trauma, ambiguity about their roles in society. Shift work, and undercover work add additional burdens to officers and their families. Police work also places risks on the communities in which officers serve in terms of officers being inadequately trained to deal with mentally ill citizens.

Women Policing across the Globe

Women Policing across the Globe
Author: Cara Rabe-Hemp
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2019-10-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1538116138

Women Policing across the Globe provides a cross-cultural comparison of the integration of women in policing across the globe, paying special attention to the unique contributions that women make to the field, along with the shared challenges and resistance they face. Individual chapters within the book provide students with a snapshot of the status of women in modern police agencies in the countries of the United States, Kuwait, China, the United Kingdom, Australia, the United Arab Emirates, and Taiwan. However, shared issues and successes of women police in many more countries worldwide are discussed throughout the entire book. This book allows students to explore the different origins of entry, specialized roles, their experiences of resistance, and effects of historical events that have shaped the experiences of modern women police from across the world. The authors discuss the new gains women are making, despite the obstacles they face, and ways they are transforming how policing is done every day. And, finally, this book closes with collective issues and successes faced by women police worldwide.

Encyclopedia of Trauma

Encyclopedia of Trauma
Author: Charles R. Figley
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 905
Release: 2012-06-19
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1506319807

Trauma is defined as a sudden, potentially deadly experience, often leaving lasting, troubling memories. Traumatology (the study of trauma, its effects, and methods to modify effects) is exploding in terms of published works and expanding in terms of scope. Originally a narrow specialty within emergency medicine, the field now extends to trauma psychology, military psychiatry and behavioral health, post-traumatic stress and stress disorders, trauma social work, disaster mental health, and, most recently, the subfield of history and trauma, with sociohistorical examination of long-term effects and meanings of major traumas experienced by whole communities and nations, both natural (Pompeii, Hurricane Katrina) and man-made (the Holocaust, 9/11). One reason for this expansion involves important scientific breakthroughs in detecting the neurobiology of trauma that is connecting biology with human behavior, which in turn, is applicable to all fields involving human thought and response, including but not limited to psychiatry, medicine and the health sciences, the social and behavioral sciences, the humanities, and law. Researchers within these fields and more can contribute to a universal understanding of immediate and long-term consequences–both good and bad–of trauma, both for individuals and for broader communities and institutions. Trauma encyclopedias published to date all center around psychological trauma and its emotional effects on the individual as a disabling or mental disorder requiring mental health services. This element is vital and has benefited from scientific and professional breakthroughs in theory, research, and applications. Our encyclopedia certainly will cover this central element, but our expanded conceptualization will include the other disciplines and will move beyond the individual.

Beyond Post-Traumatic Stress

Beyond Post-Traumatic Stress
Author: Jean Scandlyn
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 463
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351574027

When soldiers at Fort Carson were charged with a series of 14 murders, PTSD and other "invisible wounds of war" were thrown into the national spotlight. With these events as their starting point, Jean Scandlyn and Sarah Hautzinger argue for a new approach to combat stress and trauma, seeing them not just as individual medical pathologies but as fundamentally collective cultural phenomena. Their deep ethnographic research, including unusual access to affected soldiers at Fort Carson, also engaged an extended labyrinth of friends, family, communities, military culture, social services, bureaucracies, the media, and many other layers of society. Through this profound and moving book, they insist that invisible combat injuries are a social challenge demanding collective reconciliation with the post-9/11 wars.