The POWER manual : a step-by-step guide to improving police officer wellness, ethics, and resilience / Daniel M. Blumberg, Konstantinos Papazoglou, and Michael D. Schlosser.
Includes bibliographical references and index. "Includes a foreword by Kevin M. Gilmartin, PhD, author of the bestselling Emotional Survival for Law Enforcement: A Guide for Officers and Their Families. This book offers practical, research-based strategies to help police officers improve wellness, strengthen ethical commitments, and boost resilience both on and off-duty. Your power as a police officer does not come from your badge, gear, or tactical skills. It comes from your POWER: police officer wellness, ethics, and resilience. This book offers a research-based approach to dealing with the daily challenges you face in your law enforcement job. It describes personal and professional steps you can take, on-duty and off-duty, to optimize your health and maintain your performance. When you proactively practice the skills, tips, and exercises outlined in this book, you will be better prepared to defuse crisis situations before they happen, and more capable of coping with them when they do. As a law enforcement officer, you deal with enormous challenges on a daily basis. Policing involves daily risks and stressors that can compromise your health, shorten your career, and make life harder on your loved ones. Even if you have a gym or access to counseling at work, you need a personal plan to maintain your overall wellness-physical, cognitive, emotional, social, and spiritual"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Part I. Wellness. Physical health ; Cognitive wellness ; Emotional wellness ; Social wellness ; Spiritual wellness -- Part II. Ethics. Commitment to the noble cause ; The guardian spirit of policing ; Moral distress and ethical exhaustion -- Part III. Resilience. Stress inoculation ; Growth through adversity ; Self-compassion and positive psychology ; Closing thoughts : maintaining balance.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.