Policing has always been psychological challenging. On any given shift police officers may encounter a range of psychological challenges including domestic violence, interacting with people experiencing mental health issues, violent crime, even attending the aftermath of horrible accidents. The long exhausting shifts can also result in stressful person interactions within one’s personal life. The presence of COVID and political issues related to instances of over-policing have increased these stresses even more. This course has two goals. First, we want to inform officers how their stress system works and why they sometimes feel as they do. With this as a foundation we then describe some strategies officers can use to manage this system, giving themselves much needed breaks from the stress response and overall empowering them with a greater sense of control over how their bodies react to stress.
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Understanding and Managing the Stresses of Police Work
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Understanding the Stress of Police Work
The NaRLy Approach to Managing Stress
It's All About the Pratice
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TOP REVIEWS FROM UNDERSTANDING AND MANAGING THE STRESSES OF POLICE WORK
Excellent. Practical. A simple, straightforward approach to stress management for yourself and those around you; a highly beneficial practice for all, not just police officers.
I LIKE THE COURSE AS A POLICE OFFICER AND AN INSTRUCTOR OF POLICE PEACEKEEPERS, THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO ME ESPECIALLY IN FACILITATING STRES MANAGEMENT
Being able to understand and manage the stresses that assist in helping situations can progress to better the skills of ones surrounding using the skills t
This is a great course. The way the professor was able to put it all into simple and easily digestible videos was a great aspect of it that made it great for learning.
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