1st Edition

A Cop Doc's Guide to Public Safety Complex Trauma Syndrome Using Five Police Personality Styles

By Daniel Rudofossi, Dale Lund Copyright 2009
280 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

"Cop Doc's Guide to Public Safety Complex Trauma Syndrome" is written in response to the need for an advanced, specialized guide for clinicians to operationally define, understand, and responsibly treat complex post-traumatic stress and grief syndromes in the context of the unique varieties of police personality styles. The book continues where Rudofossi's first book, "Working with Traumatized... Read more

Foreword by Dr. Allan W. Benner

Preface by Dr. Ken Doka

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION
Engaging Public Safety Officers Suffering from Police Complex PTSD Syndromes: An Ecological-Ethological—Existential Analysis of the Five Police Personality Styles

PART I  Foundations: Theory of Police and Public-Safety Complex PTSD

 CHAPTER 1
Police and Public-Safety Complex PTSD (PPS-CPTSD): Toward an Integration of the Five Hubs of Loss

PART II Emerging from PPS-CPTSD: Unmasking Five Police Personalities

 CHAPTER 2
A Primer on Police Personality Styles as Adaptation to Complex Trauma

 CHAPTER 3
Toward Achieving an Effective Eco-Ethological–Existential Analysis with the Five Varieties of Public Safety Personality Styles

PART III Eco-Ethological–Existential Analytic Therapy on the Front Line

 CHAPTER 4 Provoking Motivation through the Field of Despair in the Multiangular Polychromatic Lens of Dissociation via Eight Officer-Patients’ Odysseys

Glossary

Epilogue: Toward an Antidote to Terrorism: An Eco-Ethological– Existential Analysis

Index

Biography

Daniel Rudofossi, Dale Lund