Police Trauma : Psychological Aftermath of Civilian Combat.

The police fight a different kind of war, and the enemy is the police officerís 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 off...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Violanti, John.
Other Authors: Paton, Douglas.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Springfield : Charles C Thomas Publisher, LTD, 1999.
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Table of Contents:
  • HALF TITLE: POLICE TRAUMA; TITLE PAGE: POLICE TRAUMA; CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1: POLlCE TRAUMA: PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT OF CIVILIAN COMBAT; SECTION I: CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES; Chapter 3: POLICE OFFICERS AND VIOLENT CRIME: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON IMPACT AND RECOVERY; Chapter 4: POLlCE COMPASSION FATIGUE (PCF): THEORY, RESEARCH, ASSESSMENT, TREATMENT, AND PREVENTION; Chapter 5: POLICE PSYCHOLOGICAL BURNOUT AND TRAUMA; Chapter 6: VULNERABILITY TO PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDER: PREVIOUS TRAUMA IN POLICE RECRUITS.
  • Chapter 7: CHRONIC EXPOSURE TO RISK AND TRAUMA: ADDICTION AND SEPARATION ISSUES IN POLICE OFFICERSChapter 8: TRAUMA IN POLICE WORK: A PSYCHOSOCIAL MODEL; SECTION II: SPECIAL POLICE POPULATIONS; Chapter 10: THE EMOTIONAL AFTERMATH OF THE WACO RAID: FIVE YEARS REVISITED; Chapter 11: INCIDENT RESPONSE AND RECOVERY MANAGEMENT; Chapter 12: DEATH ON DUTY: POLICE SURVIVOR TRAUMA*; Chapter 13: IMPACT OF DUTY-RELATED DEATH ON OFFICERS CHILDREN: CONCEPTS OF DEATH, TRAUMA REACTIONS, AND TREATMENT; Chapter 14: INTERGENERATIONAL LEGACIES OF TRAUMA IN POLlCE FAMILIES.
  • Chapter 15: TRAUMA OF WORLD POLICING: PEACE-KEEPING DUTIESSECTION III: PREVENTION, RECOVERY AND TREATMENT; Chapter 17: COPING EFFECTIVENESS AND OCCUPATIONAL STRESS IN POLICE OFFICERS; Chapter 18: FINDING MEANING IN POLICE TRAUMAS; Chapter 19: POLICE SUICIDE: THE ULTIMATE STRESS REACTION; Chapter 20: A CURRENT VIEW FROM THE UK IN POST INCIDENT CARE: "DEBRIEFING," "DEFUSING" AND JUST TALKING ABOUT IT; Chapter 21: POSTINTERVENTION STRATEGIES TO REDUCE POLICE TRAUMA: A PARADIGM SHIFT; Chapter 22: TRAUMA STRESS IN POLICING: ISSUES FOR FUTURE CONSIDERATION; APPENDIX; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX.