First Responder Resilience

First Responder Resilience

Author: Tania Glenn

Publisher:

Published: 2017-11-24

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 9781946329516

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The tradition in emergency services has been to largely ignore mental health. This has never worked Recently there has been increased awareness of burnout, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and first responder suicide. Awareness is not enough. This book is designed to guide the audience towards solutions.


Mental Health Intervention and Treatment of First Responders and Emergency Workers

Mental Health Intervention and Treatment of First Responders and Emergency Workers

Author: Bowers, Clint A.

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2019-08-30

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 1522598049

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The stress that comes with being a first responder has been known to lead to depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and suicide. However, few clinicians are informed about these health concerns and how to adequately treat them in this population. Therefore, there is an urgent need for practitioners to understand the latest information regarding treatments that will be useful to this specific population. Mental Health Intervention and Treatment of First Responders and Emergency Workers is an essential reference source that focuses on the latest research for diagnosing and treating mental health issues experienced by emergency personnel and seeks to generate awareness and inform clinicians about the unique circumstances encountered by these professionals. While highlighting topics including anxiety disorders and stress management, this book is ideally designed for clinicians, therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, practitioners, medical professionals, EMTs, law enforcement, fire departments, military, academicians, researchers, policymakers, and students seeking current research on psychological therapy methods regarding first responders.


Warr;or21

Warr;or21

Author: Jeff Thompson

Publisher:

Published: 2020-11-24

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9781716508516

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Increasing Resilience in Police and Emergency Personnel

Increasing Resilience in Police and Emergency Personnel

Author: Stephanie M. Conn

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-04-17

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 131719375X

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Increasing Resilience in Police and Emergency Personnel illuminates the psychological, emotional, behavioral, and spiritual impact of police work on police officers, administrators, emergency communicators, and their families. Author Stephanie Conn, a clinician and researcher as well as a former police officer and dispatcher, debunks myths about weakness and offers practical strategies in plain language for police employees and their families struggling with traumatic stress and burnout. Sections of each chapter also offer guidance for frequently overlooked roles such as police administrators and civilian police employees. Using real-world anecdotes and exercises, this book provides strengths-based guidance to help navigate the many complex and sometimes difficult effects of police and emergency work.


Mindfulness for Warriors

Mindfulness for Warriors

Author: Kim Colegrove

Publisher: Mango

Published: 2020-03-17

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9781642501742

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Less than three months after retiring from a thirty-year law enforcement career, Kim Colegrove's husband chose suicide. Since that day, Colegrove has been helping first responders across the country practice techniques to cope with the stress and trauma that their works brings, and this book continues that mission by offering first responders and their families hope by introducing meditation and mindfulness as viable and practical tools to help reduce stress, regulate emotion, and improve overall health and well-being.


Developing Firefighter Resiliency

Developing Firefighter Resiliency

Author: Bob Carpenter

Publisher: Fire Engineering Books

Published: 2019-01-02

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1593704208

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Three Key Messages: -- This is important. -- You can do it. -- I won't give up on you. Training ordinary people to do extraordinary things requires an understanding of how we learn. Developing Firefighter Resiliency starts with the basic psychophysical aspects of learning. The fire service has unwittingly used a failure-based training model for many years. Hands-on training exercises are often based on unachievable objectives. Trainers are often not educated about the psychology of adult learning or the effect of stress during learning. Consequently, participants face learning activities with mastery-level skill requirement to succeed when competency has yet to be established. This amounts to a never-ending diet of tests without actual skill development. Accessing knowledge under extreme circumstances cannot be left to chance, because the penalty for failure is severe. This book provides the roadmap for a journey to train, establish relevancy for the lessons, develop competency in the skills, and capitalize on confidence to achieve mastery. We study the impact of a stressful environment on the ability to learn and function.


The Resilient 911 Professional

The Resilient 911 Professional

Author: Jim Marshall

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-04-20

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 9781546435273

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9-1-1 telecommunicators are heavily exposed to traumatic stressors in the line of duty as our nation's Very First Responders. They struggle with PTSD at a rate believed to be four to five times higher than the general public. These 9-1-1 Professionals and their leaders must be equipped to protect their own well-being, and to safeguard the performance of our 9-1-1 centers facing an ever more demanding future. The 911 Training Institute is proud to announce the release of a book that will finally meet this need: The Resilient 9-1-1 Professional: A Comprehensive Guide to Surviving & Thriving Together in the 9-1-1 Center. This volume, edited by Jim Marshall and Tracey Laorenza, brings together an unprecedented group including 9-1-1 frontliners, their managers, joined by subject matter experts in public-safety, mental health and public administration. Together they deliver powerful stories and fascinating science revealing the health risks faced by "9-1-1Pros" and a full spectrum of solutions to manage these risks and optimize the personal and organizational well-being in our 9-1-1 centers. This book stands alone in the 9-1-1 industry and serves as essential training for all front-line dispatchers, supervisors, and managers/directors. It is also imperative reading for all those who influence and benefit from 9-1-1 emergency services: field responders, government officials, mental health professionals; all organizations that aid public-safety agencies; and, all those family and friends who love a dispatcher. Dispatchers face very high stakes every day. Our investment as a nation of 9-1-1 stakeholders in supporting and empowering them must be equally as high.


Treating Ptsd in First Responders

Treating Ptsd in First Responders

Author: Dr Richard A Bryant

Publisher:

Published: 2021-06-22

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9781433835599

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Police, firefighters, and paramedics are highly exposed to traumatic events and experience markedly higher rates of PTSD than others in the community, also facing distinct organizational challenges that complicate their stress reactions. Often, this results in needs not addressed in manuals developed for people who have survived single traumatic events. This book provides an overview of theoretical and empirical frameworks for understanding PTSD in first responders and outlines practical, evidence-based approaches to assess and treat PTSD in these populations.


The Fireman's Wife

The Fireman's Wife

Author: Susan Farren

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780786289967

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Speaking on behalf of thousands of women nationwide, Farren pens a touching, inspiring, and humorous account of the life of a fireman's wife.