Trauma and Resilience in Contemporary Australian Policing : Is PTS Inevitable for First Responders? /

This book examines how fifty police officers in South Australia keep well and "bounce back" from duty-related traumatic experience in the absence of practical, accessible and timely organisational support. It investigates mechanisms police officers presently use to "normalise" th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Paterson, Andrew (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2021.
Edition:	1st ed. 2021.
Subjects:	Quality of life. Criminology. Public health. Social policy. Welfare state. Social service. Quality of Life Research. Criminology and Criminal Justice, general. Public Health. Social Policy. Politics of the Welfare State. Social Work and Community Development. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Power, organisational and police culture, "the job"
Chapter 3. The Feminisation of policing
Chapter 4. Death and bodies
Chapter 5. Keeping well, Coping.-Chapter 6. Asking for help
Chapter 7. Sleep, "The elixir of resilience"
Chapter 8. Resilience
Chapter 9. PTSD and policing
Chapter 10. Posttraumatic growth in Policing
Chapter 11. Conclusion: Resilience among police in South Australia.