Working with traumatized police officer-patients : a clinician's guide to complex PTSD syndromes in public safety professionals / Daniel M. Rudofossi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rudofossi, Daniel, 1961-

Series:

Death, Value and Meaning Series

Death, value, and meaning series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police--Mental health services.

Police.

Police--Mental health.

Post-traumatic stress disorder--Treatment.

Post-traumatic stress disorder.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amityville, N.Y. : Baywood Pub. Co., c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An insider perspective from a 'cop doc on the job,' this book is the first of its kind written in response to a need for a specialized guide for clinicians that operationally defines and responsibly treats what Dan Rudofossi terms Police and Public Safety Complex PTSD. In reading this book, you are led through an understanding of how to work with police officers who experience cumulative loss in trauma. "Doc Dan" initiates you into an original cultural competence of how and why his theory works in practice. You will leave the journey with a practical sense of how the ecological context and ethological motivation are part of the psychological presentation of almost all officers suffering from complex trauma and loss.This guide is crucial reading, original in its breadth and scope of perspective on how to intervene with the traumatized officer. Toward that end, Rudofossi presents his Eco-Ethological Existential Analysis of Police and Public Safety Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Emotive, affective, cognitive, behavioral, and existential ranges of expression of trauma are vast, diverse, and often intense in police officers. This book delivers applied theory with clinical examples, including practical interventions for the clinician and handouts for the officer-patient. The clinician will be assisted in encountering officers' existential suffering from the edge of despair to the precipice of meaning. The guide is at once stimulating, exciting, and very serious in its potential for clinical interventions.

Contents:

""WORKING WITH TRAUMATIZED POLICE OFFICER-PATIENTS, A Clinician�s Guide to Complex PTSD Syndromes in public Safety Professionals""; ""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""PART I Initiation: Rites of Passage�Cultural Competence""; ""CHAPTER 1 A Brief Tutorial on the Nature of Trauma in Policing""; ""CHAPTER 2 Enhancing Your Cultural Competence: Cop Doc Reflections for the Clinician""

""PART II Strategic Approaches toward Achieving Alliance and Effective Assessment with Public-Safety Patients""""CHAPTER 3 Creating and Maintaining an Alliance with Public-Safety Officer-Patients""; ""CHAPTER 4 An Outline of a Protocol for Assessment of Mental and Behavioral Disorders in Public-Safety Populations""; ""PART III Eco-Ethological Existential Analytic Method of Therapy in Treating Police and Public-Safety Complex PTSD""; ""CHAPTER 5 Theoretical Background for CPTSD in Public-Safety Populations""

""CHAPTER 6 An Eco-Ethological Existential Analysis of PPS-CPTSD with Officer-Patients""""Glossary""; ""Appendix A�Mission Statement: NYPD, Uniform-Psychologist""; ""Appendix B�Continued Treatment and Relapse Prevention""; ""Appendix C�Intake Protocol Uniform-Psychologist""; ""Appendix D�Suicide/Self-Harm Prevention Contract""; ""Appendix E�Map Contract While Out on Sick Report/ Restricted Duty Status""; ""Patient and Therapist�s Handout: Self-Awareness: Stop Drinking Worksheet. Start Coping!""; ""Patient�s Handout: Loss and Meaning: My Living Bridge""

""Therapist �s Handout: Clinical Technique: Getting Law Enforcement Officers Motivated to Commit to Grief, Trauma, and Crisis Intervention Therapy Using Animal Metaphors""""Contributors""; ""Index""; ""Select Titles from the Death, Value and Meaning Series""; ""Back Cover""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-351-84051-7

1-315-22331-7

0-89503-648-7

9781315223315

OCLC:

1229166076