Preparing for the Unimaginable: How Chiefs Can Safeguard Officer Mental Health Before and After Mass Casualty Events
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (540 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1510726136 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 162 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-25 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Preparing for the Unimaginable fills that void. Complete with firsthand accounts of chiefs and officers that have guided their departments through mass casualty events, Preparing for the Unimaginable seeks to provide practical, actionable strategies to protect officer mental health before and after traumatic events.. This book is the product of the National Alliance on Mental Illness’s work with the Newtown, Connecticut, police force in efforts to cope with the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary school that left twenty six people, including twenty children, dead. While mo
He was retained as an expert consultant to NAMI to coauthor this publication.Anand Pandya, MD is the cofounder of Disaster Psychiatry Outreach in Brooklyn, New York, and a National Institute of Mental Health-funded researcher on the predictors of depression in survivors of disasters. He previously served on the board of directors of the Menninger Clinic in Houston, Texas, and he has served two terms as president of NAMI. He has won numerous awards for his work in the field. NAMI has named an annual law enforcement advocacy award after Cochran. Usher served for eight years as NAMI’s program manager for crisis intervention teams (CIT) and has assisted law enforcement agencies n
From 2006 to 2014, Friedhoff ran a variety of programs at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, including Nieman’s Trauma Journalism Program. . He is a coeditor of two award-winning books on disaster psychiatry and author of numerous articles and book chapters on disaster psychiatry and mental health advocacy. Usher served for eight years as NAMI’s program manager for crisis intervention teams (CIT) and has assisted law enforcement agencies nationwide in impro