Working with Traumatized Police-Officer Patients

Foreword by Alan W. Brenner, Ph.D.

Preface by Richard R. Ellis, EdD

Part I: Initiation: Rites of Passage-Cultural Competence

Introduction: summarizes the content, motivation, and trajectory of the guide.

Chapter 1. A Brief Tutorial on the Nature of Trauma in Policing:
offers a brief tutorial on trauma within police and public safety culture for the clinician and criminal justice practitioner.

Chapter 2. Enhancing Your Cultural Competence-Cop Doc Reflections for the Clinician:
moves the clinician to a culturally competent stance for use in the initial encounter with the traumatized officer-patient.

Part II: Strategic Approaches toward Achieving Alliance and Effective Assessment with Public Safety Patients

Chapter 3. Creating and Maintaining an Alliance with Public Safety Officer-Patients:
ignites the most important and difficult aspect of our work: developing a resilient therapeutic alliance between the clinician and police patient.

Chapter 4. An Outline of a Protocol for Assessment of Mental and Behavioral Disorders in Public Safety Populations:
gives the clinician a primer for establishing a protocol for assessing mental and behavioral disorders in a public safety population.

Part III: Eco-Ethological Existential Analytic Method of Therapy in Treating Police and Public Safety Complex PTSD

Chapter 5. Theoretical Background for CPTSD in Public Safety Populations:
focuses on moving from PTSD to Police Complex PTSD as a framework for applied clinical practice with public safety officer patients.

Chapter 6. An Eco-Ethological Existential Analysis of PPS-CPTSD with Officer-Patients:
the book culminates with an eco-ethological existential analysis, achieving effective results through composite clinical case examples of officer-patients presenting with Police Complex PTSD.