Police, Firefighter, and Paramedic Stress - An Annotated Bibliography

Public safety professionals work together in life-and-death situations. During natural or transportation disasters, industrial accidents, shootings, suicides or dozens of other instances, police officers, firefighters, and paramedics are called upon to assist both injured and uninjured people. Although often romanticized in television series and in films, the real-life tasks of public safety professionals are usually unpleasant--restraining violent individuals and removing accident, homicide, and suicide victims from death scenes--and always highly stressful. They are frequently subjected to additional stress when their efforts are criticized by family members of the injured or deceased. Although stress can be harmful, even fatal, police officers, firefighters, and paramedics can have more productive and satisfying lives when they learn to positively control stress, rather than be controlled by it. This English language bibliography consisting of more than 700 references, covering the time period 1945 to early 1989, can help these and other professionals manage stress more effectively. Source publications, all of which are annotated, include books, articles, conference proceedings, theses, government publications, and dissertations. The bibliography section is composed of six chapters addressing psychological and physiological factors, the family, substance abuse, accidents, and suicide, with references arranged alphabetically by author surname. A list of acronyms and author and subject indexes complete the work.

Of paramount importance to police officers, firefighters, and paramedics as well as their families, this bibliography will provide legislators, physicians, nurses, social workers, psychiatrists, psychologists, and sociologists with extensive and substantial documentation on the stress-filled work lives of these public safety professionals.

List of contents

Preface
Acronyms
Psychological Aspects
Physiological Factors
The Family
Substance Abuse
Accidents
Suicide
Author Index
Subject Index

About the author

John J. Miletich

Product details

• Authors: John J. Miletich, Miletich John J.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.01.1990
• EAN: 9780313266829
• ISBN: 978-0-313-26682-9
• Series: Bibliographies and Indexes in Psychology
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; PSYCHOLOGY / Industrial & Organizational Psychology, REFERENCE / Bibliographies & Indexes, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Law Enforcement, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, c 1960 to c 1970, c 1950 to c 1959, Occupational and industrial psychology, Police & security services, Occupational & industrial psychology, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1960 to c 1969, c 1970 to c 1980, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, C 1945 To C 1960, Police and security services, Bibliographies, catalogues, Current Events and Issues: Law and Crime