The Psychological Threats of the Profession are real.

It is time we do something about it!

The Proactive Solution

Police work does not need to be a career that destroys an officer’s quality of life. With proactive stress management, the occupational stress of a career in law enforcement can be managed and mastered.

mENTAL wELLNESS

For too long mental wellness has been a taboo topic that officers and administrators alike did not want to discuss. This has resulted in a devastating impact on the men and women who chose law enforcement as a profession.

Over time, the stress, negativity and traumatic events an officer sees repeatedly during the course of a law enforcement career can compromise the officer’s psychological resiliency. Unaddressed, this can create problems in both the officer’s personal and professional life. 

Tactical Brain Science

By understanding the impact of long term stress on the brain, we can work to prevent and overcome it. The result will be officers who are able to:

- remain psychologically strong

- meet the psychological threats of the profession

-avoid other rampant issues within the profession, such as alcoholism, divorce, and poor health conditions

-protect their resiliency, health, and happiness at work and at home.

A message from the author

“This book contains information every officer must know to survive their career. It is no longer enough that we go home at the end of our shift.  We deserve to go home healthy, happy, and a well-adjusted human being.”- Dr. Laura LV King

Understanding Law Enforcement Suicide

Each year, law enforcement loses more officers to suicide than to all line-of-duty causes of death combined. To stop this from happening, the concept of Officer Safety needs to be redefined to address both the physical and psychological threats that are the realities of our profession. This book will help prepare officers to meet both the physical and psychological challenges they will encounter when they choose a career in law enforcement. It also explores how police suicide differs from suicide in the general population. In better understanding the research in this area, we can work together to stop this from being our reality.

Protecting your Mental Wellness

There are many ways to overcome the negative effects of cumulative traumatic stress exposure. One way is to prepare yourself to recognize the warning signs. Another way is to understand the options for intervention and select the method that might work best for you.

When intervention is needed

When memories of disturbing events are still eliciting a strong emotional reaction it is likely the memory is stuck in the emotional processing center of the brain. Interventions to help individual experiencing these symptoms include peer support, talk therapy and eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR). The details of these techniques are discussed to help the reader understand what the intervention is attempting to do and how and why it actually works.

ways to Prepare and protect yourself

Often the best way to protect our mental wellness is to be prepared for what a career in police work may bring. This includes getting honest about the physical and psychological threats of the profession and educating officers how to better protect themselves. We must not only prepare for the threats of violence on the streets, but also the biochemical shifts that long term stress exposure can cause in the brain.