Preparing for the Unimaginable: How Chiefs Can Safeguard Officer Mental Health Before and After Mass Casualty Events
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (599 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1510726136 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 162 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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At Nieman, Friedhoff created major conferences20 convening trauma experts, victims, law enforcement, journalists, and others involved in the lives of survivors to explore each other’s rolesand the role of storytellingin the aftermath of crime and disaster. Usher is also the coauthor of numerous reports, including Responding to Youth with Mental Health Needs: A CIT for Youth Implementation Manual, Grading the States
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. . NAMI has named an annual law enforcement advocacy award after Cochran. 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. Today, he assists law enforcement agencies across the United States, England, Australia, and Israel in building partnerships with the mental health system and in starting their own CIT programs. At Nieman, Friedhoff created major conferences20 convening trauma experts
This unique publication offers expert advice and practical tips for helping officers to heal emotionally, managing the public, dealing with the media, building relationships with other first responder agencies, and much more. Preparing for the Unimaginable fills that void. While most government agencies are trained in how to react to a mass casualty event such as a terrorist attack or natural disaster, few are prepared to deal with the psychological fallout for first responders. 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