The policing mind : developing trauma resilience for a new era /
How does it feel to be a police officer? Jessica Miller uses the most recent neuroscience and real-life examples to explore risks to individual resilience. A compulsory read for anyone with an interest in policing, the book offers practical resilience techniques and policy recommendations for police...
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| Định dạng: | Licensed eBooks |
| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
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Bristol, UK :
Policy Press,
2022.
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv2f1smgh |
Mục lục:
- Front Cover
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- List of figures and tables
- Glossary
- About the author
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Why the need to be resilient? How it feels to be a police officer in the UK and why
- Introduction
- The times we are in
- Changing crimes and changing minds
- What officers and staff tell us themselves
- How neuroscience gives a voice to the policing brain
- What's so different for policing?
- Conclusion
- Chapter 1 snapshot
- Checklist
- 2 Risks to resilience in operational policing
- Introduction
- Crossing the thin blue line
- Survival of the fittest
- States of the policing mind
- Contraction and fragmentation
- Threat perception
- Trauma
- Lack of trust
- Cynicism
- The C-word
- and getting tired of it
- Isolation
- Lack of talking
- The body
- Powerlessness or reduced self-efficacy beliefs
- Deferment of happiness
- Who do we think we are?
- Chapter 2 snapshot
- Checklist
- 3 What might be happening in the brain? Introducing simple neuroscience for policing
- Introduction
- Why is understanding the brain so useful?
- What is a brain?
- The basics: your evolutionary brain
- Brain function for police resilience
- Trauma exposure
- The negativity bias
- Talking and not talking
- Modes and zones of thinking in the brain
- Defaulting to police mode
- Seeing red and going green
- Being and doing
- The body-brain connection
- Mirror neurons
- The vagus nerve
- The chemical messengers we could call feelings
- What now? Your turn
- Chapter 3 snapshot
- Checklist
- 4 Turning science into action: resilience practices for policing
- Introduction
- The science is nice, but is this for me?
- So, how do the techniques work?
- Getting started
- Your personal toolkit: PPE for the brain3
- A summary of the techniques
- Techniques
- Daily techniques
- Starting your day
- Morning mindset
- During your day
- Checking in
- Body sweep
- Breathing space
- Eye-gaze expansion
- Tips
- At the end of your day
- Sleep debrief
- Attitude of gratitude
- Little wins and giggles
- Tips
- Mastering threat perception
- Sensing threat but needing to get the better of it?
- 'What's for lunch?'
- F.E.A.R. vs T.H.R.E.A.T
- Fear face-off
- Feeling disproportionately anxious about a harmless interaction? (fear in interpersonal interaction):14 how to imagine life from someone else's disadvantage
- From F-word to C-bomb
- When the day's events are a heavy weight to carry home
- create clear boundaries between job and not-job
- Boots-at-the-door
- Constructing a personal story in your mind about an incident?: acknowledging the discomfort and neutralising the narrative in your head
- Labelling 'there is...'
- Getting creative (bit weird)
- Tips