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Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1990-01-16 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0313266824 |
Public safety professionals work together in life-and-death situations. During natural or transportation disasters, industrial accidents, shootings, suicides or dozens of other instances, police officers, firefighters, and paramedics are called upon to assist both injured and uninjured people. Although often romanticized in television series and in films, the real-life tasks of public safety professionals are usually unpleasant--restraining violent individuals and removing accident, homicide, and suicide victims from death scenes--and always highly stressful. They are frequently subjected to additional stress when their efforts are criticized by family members of the injured or deceased. Although stress can be harmful, even fatal, police officers, firefighters, and paramedics can have more productive and satisfying lives when they learn to positively control stress, rather than be controlled by it. This English language bibliography consisting of more than 700 references, covering the time period 1945 to early 1989, can help these and other professionals manage stress more effectively. Source publications, all of which are annotated, include books, articles, conference proceedings, theses, government publications, and dissertations. The bibliography section is composed of six chapters addressing psychological and physiological factors, the family, substance abuse, accidents, and suicide, with references arranged alphabetically by author surname. A list of acronyms and author and subject indexes complete the work. Of paramount importance to police officers, firefighters, and paramedics as well as their families, this bibliography will provide legislators, physicians, nurses, social workers, psychiatrists, psychologists, and sociologists with extensive and substantial documentation on the stress-filled work lives of these public safety professionals.
Author | : Misty Getrich |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Emergency medical technicians |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John J. Miletich |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1990-01-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0313387923 |
Public safety professionals work together in life-and-death situations. During natural or transportation disasters, industrial accidents, shootings, suicides or dozens of other instances, police officers, firefighters, and paramedics are called upon to assist both injured and uninjured people. Although often romanticized in television series and in films, the real-life tasks of public safety professionals are usually unpleasant--restraining violent individuals and removing accident, homicide, and suicide victims from death scenes--and always highly stressful. They are frequently subjected to additional stress when their efforts are criticized by family members of the injured or deceased. Although stress can be harmful, even fatal, police officers, firefighters, and paramedics can have more productive and satisfying lives when they learn to positively control stress, rather than be controlled by it. This English language bibliography consisting of more than 700 references, covering the time period 1945 to early 1989, can help these and other professionals manage stress more effectively. Source publications, all of which are annotated, include books, articles, conference proceedings, theses, government publications, and dissertations. The bibliography section is composed of six chapters addressing psychological and physiological factors, the family, substance abuse, accidents, and suicide, with references arranged alphabetically by author surname. A list of acronyms and author and subject indexes complete the work. Of paramount importance to police officers, firefighters, and paramedics as well as their families, this bibliography will provide legislators, physicians, nurses, social workers, psychiatrists, psychologists, and sociologists with extensive and substantial documentation on the stress-filled work lives of these public safety professionals.
Author | : Katherine W. Ellison |
Publisher | : Charles C Thomas Publisher |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0398074585 |
"Good policing is not impossible. The reactions that have been associated with stressors are not inevitable. Many officers retire in good physical and emotional health and 100 back on their careers with pleasure. In a situation where stressers have led to maladaptive behavior on the part of individuals or organizations, change is called for. Change must be constant, as social conditions in the world around us vary. The police represent a force for the order necessary for society to function. It is not an easy job, but it is one that is worth doing well."
Author | : Cheryl Regehr |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2005-01-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 019029003X |
In the wake of disaster emergency responders are first on the scene and last to leave. They put concern for the lives of others over concern for their own lives, and work tirelessly to recover the bodies of the missing. Their heroic actions save lives, provide comfort to and care for the wounded and inspire onlookers, but at what cost to themselves? We now know that rescue workers who are exposed to mutilated bodies, mass destruction, multiple casualties, and life-threatening situations may become the hidden victims of disaster. The traumatic consequences of exposure can profoundly impact emergency responders, radiate to their families, and permeate the emergency organization. This much-needed new book, based on the authors' original research and clinical experience, describes the consequences of trauma exposure on police officers, fire fighters, and paramedics. Weaving data collected in large-scale quantitative studies with the personal stories of responders shared in qualitative interviews, this much-needed account explores the personal, organizational, and societal factors that can ameliorate or exacerbate traumatic response. Stress theory, organizational theory, crisis theory, and trauma theory provide a framework for understanding trauma responses and guiding intervention strategies. Using an ecological perspective, the authors explore interventions spanning prevention, disaster response, and follow-up, on individual, family, group, organizational, and community levels. They provide specific suggestions for planning intervention programs, developing trauma response teams, training emergency service responders and mental health professionals, and evaluating the effectiveness of services provided. Disaster, whether large-scale or small, underscores our ongoing vulnerability and the crucial need for response plans that address the health and well being of those who confront disaster on a daily basis. In the Line of Fire speaks directly to these emergency response workers as well as to the mental health professionals who provide them with services, the administrators who support their efforts, and the family members who wonder if their loved one will return home safely from work tonight.
Author | : Richard E. Farmer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9781627344777 |
"This book is about the effects of stress on our nation's people who are involved in police work, corrections, firefighters and related fire service employees, rescue and ambulance staff, emergency medical personnel including doctors and nurses, and members of the armed forces. It is dedicated to the effects of these various roles on the people who engage in the work. People who are engaged in one or more of these roles should read it and have the opportunity to better understand their own reactions to work-related stress. It clearly focuses on creating an understanding of the sources of stress that are common to these roles, how that affects us as individuals, and provides an understanding of how to healthfully cope with the stress in all of our lives. Readers will have the opportunity to discover healthful means of coping with their day-to-day stress. This book is dedicated to the thousands and thousands of men and women who engage in these work roles on a day-to-day basis. It is written in a hands-on way so that the reader can improve their lives through healthful coping. Unlike other books on this important topic, this book is a hands-on, comprehensive, and practical approach which has been designed to offer the reader an opportunity to learn about stress and its effects upon you. In it, the reader has the opportunity to develop a comprehensive plan to healthfully cope with your day-to-day experiences. Throughout the book, the reader is invited to think about their own stress situation and to develop your own comprehensive plan for healthful coping"--
Author | : Michael Tunnecliffe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 83 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Counseling |
ISBN | : 9780646206677 |
Recommendations and ideas for how to cope with personal emotional responses to stress and trauma. With stress reaction questionnaire, resource list, and index. Much of the material is adapted from 'Victim to Survivor'. The writer is a psychologist who has worked with emergency services, and is the author of 'Emergency Support: A handbook for peer supporters'.
Author | : Mike McEvoy |
Publisher | : Jones & Bartlett Learning |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Burn out (Psychology) |
ISBN | : 9780877654810 |
Different faces of stress -- Traits of emergency responders -- Stress on the job -- Critical incident stress -- Stress at home -- Shift work and sleep -- Development of competence in emergency responders -- Personal stress management program.
Author | : Donald L. Metz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John M. Violanti |
Publisher | : Charles C Thomas Publisher |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2014-02-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0398087733 |
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.