Description
Foreword, Ellen Scrivner I. The Basics of Cultural Competency 1. Working in the Law Enforcement Culture 2. Managing the Therapeutic Alliance 3. The Emergency Responder's Exhaustion Syndrome 4. Growing Old in a Young Person's Profession II. Line-of-Duty Issues 5. Death by 1,000 Cuts: Critical Incidents, Trauma, and Posttraumatic Stress Injuries 6. Betrayal: The Hidden Critical Incident 7. Shift Work and Sleep Deprivation III. Treatment Tactics 8. Reading Your Client: Assessment Strategies 9. Treatment Strategies 10. When Your Client Needs Medication IV. Common Presenting Problems 11. Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, and Other Addictions 12. Depression and Suicide 13. Somatization, Panic Attacks, and Stress Reduction V. Working with Police Families 14. Resilience and the Police Family 15. Givens and Paradoxes 16. ""Why Didn't You Shoot Him in the Leg?"": Police Family Communication 17. The First Responder Relationship 18. Infidelity, Divorce, and Domestic Abuse VI. Getting Started 19. Special Considerations for Treating Other First Responders 20. Breaking and Entering Appendix: Residential Treatment/Group Therapy Resources