I love a cop what police families need to know /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kirschman, Ellen
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Guilford Press, c2007.
Edition:Rev. ed.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • "Hi honey. I'm home."
  • The way it is: givens and realities of police work
  • The police officer's paradox
  • Growing old in a young person's profession: how officers change with time
  • Organizational stress: looking for love in all the wrong places
  • Remarkable events
  • Critical incidents, stress, and trauma
  • From victim to survivor: working through trauma
  • From battlefront to homefront: families and trauma
  • Kids and trauma
  • Emotional extremes
  • Domestic abuse: the best-kept secret shame of policing
  • Alcohol abuse and suicide
  • Getting help
  • Getting the help you need when you need it
  • Special families, special issues
  • Swimming upstream: special challenges facing women, minorities, lesbians, and gay men in law enforcement
  • Cop couples
  • Summing up
  • Success stories.