Traumatic Stress in Police Officers : a Career-Length Assessment from Recruitment to Retirement.

The objective of this book is to demonstrate how adopting a career perspective can provide a more comprehensive conceptualization of traumatic stress processes as they apply to police officers and agencies and provide a framework that can be used to guide research and intervention agenda in ways tha...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Paton, Douglas.
Other Authors: Violanti, John M., Burke, Karen.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Springfield : Charles C Thomas Publisher, LTD, 2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • TRAUMATIC STRESSIN POLICE OFFICERS; CONTENTS; Chapter 1 CONCEPTUALIZATION:; Chapter 2 ORGANIZATIONAL INFLUENCES; Chapter 3 FROM CIVILIAN TO RECRUIT:SELECTING THE RIGHT STUFF; Chapter 4 FROM RECRUIT TO OFFICER:; Chapter 5 MALADAPTIVE COPING DURING; Chapter 6 GENDER DIFFERENCES IN POLICING; Chapter 7 THE CHANGING NATURE OF EXPOSUREDURING THE POLICE CAREER:; Chapter 8 ACCOMMODATING TERRORISM AS RISK FACTOR:; Chapter 9 THE LIFE OF ESTABLISHED OFFICERS; Chapter 10 MANAGING CRITICAL INCIDENT STRESS RISK:; Chapter 11 DISENGAGEMENT FROM POLICE SERVICE:; Chapter 12 CONCLUSION; INDEX.