Power: Police Officer Wellness, Ethics, and Resilience

by Konstantinos Papazoglou (Editor), Daniel Blumberg (Editor)

Police Officer Wellness, Ethics, and Resilience collectively presents the numerous psychic wounds experienced by peace officers in the line of duty, including compassion fatigue, moral injury, PTSD, operational stress injury, organizational and operational stress, and loss. Authors describe the negative repercussions of these psychic wounds in law enforcement decision-making, job performance, job satisfaction, and families. The book encompasses evidence-based strategies to assist law enforcement agencies in developing policy programs to promote wellness for their personnel. The evidence-based techniques presented allow officers to get a more tangible and better understanding of the techniques so that they apply those techniques when on and off-duty. With forewords authored by Dr. John Violanti (Distinguished Police Research Professor) and Dr. Tracie Keesee, Vice President of the Center of Policing Equity, this book is an excellent resource for police professionals, police wellness coordinators, early career researchers, mental health professionals who provide services to law enforcement officers and their families, and graduate students in psychology, forensic psychology, and criminal justice.

280 pages, Paperback

Published November 13, 2019

Reviews

[Christopher Cagle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very well edited. In my 20+ year career, I have not read a better collection research. The authors describe the realities and negative repercussions of compassion fatigue, moral injury, PTSD, operational stress injury, and organizational and operational stress—psychic wounds in law enforcement. The book further presents evidence-based strategies to assist law enforcement agencies in developing policy programs to promote wellness for their personnel. This is the book to go to if I was writing a briefing paper or developing an agency ‘wellness’ program—an excellent resource for police professionals, police wellness coordinators, and mental health professionals who provide services to law enforcement officers and their families.

This book is research dense. If you are a law enforcement professional in need of developing your own wellness plan then go read the the book “The POWER Manual.” That provides more practical guidance for a DIY approach.