2nd Edition
Increasing Resilience in Police and Emergency Personnel Strengthening Your Mental Armor
1 Are Police Resilient? 2 Challenges to Police & First Responder Resilience 3 Critical Police Incidents: Reactions and Recovery 4 Secondary Traumatic Stress: Uncomplicated Strategies for Complex Trauma 5 Non-Operational Stressors: Catching the Sneaky Resilience Thief 6 Building Resilience: Mental & Emotional Armor 7 Building Resilience: Social Support & Life Design 8 Building Resilience: Healthy Living 9 Help to Be Resilient 10 Agency Resilience Programs Appendix: Suggested Resources
Biography
Stephanie M. Conn, PhD, ABPP, is a former police officer, as well as the daughter and wife of police officers, and currently works as a therapist in private practice, contracted with multiple first-responder agencies and specializing in police stress, trauma, work-life balance, coping, and resilience. She began as a dispatcher/call-taker before becoming an officer with the Fort Worth Police Department and earning her doctorate in counseling psychology. She is board certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology in Police and Public Safety Psychology. She has also presented widely to emergency responders, sharing wisdom gained from her police experience, her research, and her therapy practice.
"The second edition of Dr. Conn's valuable guide to strengthening resilience for first responders, their families, police administrators, and civilian employees is chock full of practical new ideas about coping with trauma, moral injury, PTSD, depression, organizational betrayal, and societal turmoil. She writes in a straightforward way infused with empathy and understanding that comes from her experience as a first responder."
Ellen Kirschman, PhD, author of I Love a Cop: What Police Families Need to Know, I Love a Fire Fighter: What the Family Needs to Know, and Counseling Cops: What Clinicians Need to Know (with Mark Kamena and Joel Fay)
"Stephanie has made a major and unique contribution to the field of public safety wellness. She provides a well-referenced scholarly work that draws on her unique lived experiences across several life roles. Her clinical experience as a respected veteran police psychologist, blending with this background, provides the reader with a valuable resource at multiple levels."
Kevin M. Gilmartin, PhD, author of Emotional Survival for Law Enforcement
"Dr. Conn set the bar for the study of resiliency in law enforcement with her first edition, and this newly updated, expanded edition impressively raises that bar. Dr. Conn’s law enforcement experience, combined with her expertise in police psychology sets her work as the model for the field. Officers, agency executives, the public, and police clinicians can all gain valuable insight from this highly recommended book."
Thomas Coghlan, PsyD, NYPD Det. (retired), owner, Blue Line Psychological Services, PLLC
