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How does it feel to be a police officer? Jessica Miller uses the most recent neuroscience and real-life examples to explore risks to individual resilience. A compulsory read for anyone with an interest in policing, the book offers practical resilience techniques and policy recommendations for police...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Miller, Jessica K. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Police psychology.
Resilience (Personality trait)
Resilience (Trait de personnalite)
Psychologie policiere.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright information
  • Dedication
  • Table of contents
  • List of figures and tables
  • Glossary
  • About the author
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • 1 Why the need to be resilient? How it feels to be a police officer in the UK and why
  • Introduction
  • The times we are in
  • Changing crimes and changing minds
  • What officers and staff tell us themselves
  • How neuroscience gives a voice to the policing brain
  • What's so different for policing?
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 1 snapshot
  • Checklist
  • 2 Risks to resilience in operational policing
  • Introduction
  • Crossing the thin blue line
  • Survival of the fittest
  • States of the policing mind
  • Contraction and fragmentation
  • Threat perception
  • Trauma
  • Lack of trust
  • Cynicism
  • The C-word
  • and getting tired of it
  • Isolation
  • Lack of talking
  • The body
  • Powerlessness or reduced self-efficacy beliefs
  • Deferment of happiness
  • Who do we think we are?
  • Chapter 2 snapshot
  • Checklist
  • 3 What might be happening in the brain? Introducing simple neuroscience for policing
  • Introduction
  • Why is understanding the brain so useful?
  • What is a brain?
  • The basics: your evolutionary brain
  • Brain function for police resilience
  • Trauma exposure
  • The negativity bias
  • Talking and not talking
  • Modes and zones of thinking in the brain
  • Defaulting to police mode
  • Seeing red and going green
  • Being and doing
  • The body-brain connection
  • Mirror neurons
  • The vagus nerve
  • The chemical messengers we could call feelings
  • What now? Your turn
  • Chapter 3 snapshot
  • Checklist
  • 4 Turning science into action: resilience practices for policing
  • Introduction
  • The science is nice, but is this for me?
  • So, how do the techniques work?
  • Getting started
  • Your personal toolkit: PPE for the brain3
  • A summary of the techniques
  • Techniques
  • Daily techniques
  • Starting your day
  • Morning mindset
  • During your day
  • Checking in
  • Body sweep
  • Breathing space
  • Eye-gaze expansion
  • Tips
  • At the end of your day
  • Sleep debrief
  • Attitude of gratitude
  • Little wins and giggles
  • Tips
  • Mastering threat perception
  • Sensing threat but needing to get the better of it?
  • 'What's for lunch?'
  • F.E.A.R. vs T.H.R.E.A.T
  • Fear face-off
  • Feeling disproportionately anxious about a harmless interaction? (fear in interpersonal interaction):14 how to imagine life from someone else's disadvantage
  • From F-word to C-bomb
  • When the day's events are a heavy weight to carry home
  • create clear boundaries between job and not-job
  • Boots-at-the-door
  • Constructing a personal story in your mind about an incident?: acknowledging the discomfort and neutralising the narrative in your head
  • Labelling 'there is...'
  • Getting creative (bit weird)
  • Tips

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