Ellen Kirschman

340 Pages Size: 6" x 9"
Paperback December 2006 ISBN 978-1-59385-353-2 Cat. #5353 Price: $16.95 $14.41 order	Hardcover December 2006 ISBN 978-1-59385-354-9 Cat. #5354 Price: $40.00 $34.00 order	E-book March 2011 ISBN 978-1-60623-810-3 EPUB format Price: $16.95 $14.41 order

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1. The Way It Is: Givens and Realities of Police Work

2. The Police Officer's Paradox

3. Growing Old in a Young Person's Profession: How Officers Change with Time

4. Organizational Stress: Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places

II. Remarkable Events

Trauma

5. Critical Incidents, Stress, and Trauma

6. From Victim to Survivor: Working Through Trauma

7. From Battlefront to Homefront: Families and Trauma

8. Kids and Trauma

Emotional Extremes

9. Domestic Abuse: The Best-Kept Secret Shame of Policing

10. Alcohol Abuse and Suicide

Getting Help

11. Getting the Help You Need When You Need It

III. Special Families, Special Issues

12. Swimming Upstream: Special Challenges Facing Women, Minorities, Lesbians, and Gay Men in Law Enforcement

13. Cop Couples

IV. Summing Up

14. Success Stories

Epilogue

Resources