Stress management in law enforcement

Part 1. What is stress all about? 1. Stress as a cause of disease / Lennart Levi

2. Stress, traumatic stress, and posttraumatic stress syndromes / Laurence Miller

Part 2. What does stress mean for cops? 3. Identifying law enforcement stress reactions early / Donald C. Sheehan and Vincent B. Van Hasselt

4. Issues in small town policing : understanding stress / Dennis Lindsey and Sean Kelly

5. On-the-job stress in policing : reducing it, preventing it / Peter Finn

6. Police cynicism : causes and cures / Wallace Graves

Part 3. Are there ways we can tell it is there? 7. Occupational stress and psychological functioning in law enforcement officers / Rebecca M. Pasillas

8. Ranking police stressors / John M. Violanti and Fred Aron

9. Police officer burnout : a partial replication of maslach's burnout inventory / Homer C. Hawkins

10. Stress and the female officer / Meredith B. Moran

11. Gender stress : differences in critical life events among law enforcement officers / Jacquelyn Hodges Bradway

Part 4. What are some of the bad effects of stress on cops? 12. Cops under pressure : driven to drink / Jim Adams and James Walsh

13. Alcohol abuse in policing : prevention strategies / John M. Violanti

14. Does joining the police service drive you to drink? A longitudinal study of the drinking habits of police recruits / Patricia L. Obst, Jeremy D. Davey and Mary C. Sheehan

15. Police trauma and addiction : coping with the dangers of the job / Chad L. Cross and Larry Ashley

16. Special report on police suicide : cop killer / Melanie Hamilton

17. By their own hand : suicide among law enforcement personnel / Audrey L. Honig and Elizabeth K. White

Part 5. How does stress impact the cop's family life? 18. Deadly secrets : violence in the police family / Lonald D. Lott

19. Developing stress-resistant police families / Grace Kannady

20. Preparing families for the hazards of police work / Sam Torres, David L. Maggard, Jr., and Christine Torres

21. Rising to the challenge : preventing police officer domestic violence / Sandy Prabhu and Nancy Turner

Part 6. How does the worst of the worst affect cops? 22. The stress of homicide investigations / James D. Sewell

23. Psychological trauma in the police service / Barbara Plant

24. Cumulative career traumatic stress (CCTS) : a pilot study of traumatic stress in law enforcement / Ellen K. Marshall

Part 7. What are the tools that a cop can use to better handle stress? 25. Critical incident stress in law enforcement /Arthur W. Kureczka

26. Handling the stress of the electronic world / James D. Sewell

27. Negative influences of police stress / Joseph A. Harpold and Samuel L. Feemster

28. A conceptual model and implications for coping with stressful events in police work / Mark H. Anshel

Part 8. What support is available for cops? 29. Law enforcement traumatic stress : clinical syndromes and intervention strategies / Laurence Miller

30. Crisis management briefings (CMB) : large group crisis intervention in response to terrorism, disasters, and violence / George S. Everly, Jr.

31. Psychological debriefing: an effective method? / Atle Dyregrov

32. Current best practices : coping with major critical incidents

Part 9. How can the bosses better help their cops? 33. Reducing stress : an organization-centered approach / Peter Finn

34. Let's drive 'em crazy : how managers contribute to employee stress / James D. Sewell

35. Stress management in the Federal Bureau of Investigation : principles for program development / Donald C. Sheehan

36. Police personalities : understanding and managing the problem officer / Laurence Miller

37. Managing undercover stress : the supervisor's role

Stephen R. Band and Donald C. Sheehan

38. Managing the stress of organizational change / James D. Sewell

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