Dealing with police stress.

Details

• Personal Author:
  Furgstenberg MH
• Description:
  The history of the development of Boston Police Department's program for dealing with stress of its police officers is detailed, and the program itself is briefly described and assessed. The impetus came from a former alcholic and Boston police officer, who met with great resistance from the police union and fellow officers and supervisors, but after five years managed to have the program officially implemented. The program is independent of the police department, and essentially deals with alcoholism, although the intent was to deal with all types of stresses and their consequences. It mainly provides counselling and detoxification and assistance in a limited extent for other problems such as drugs, finances, medical problems. In its year of existence it has treated 91 alcoholics, 9 couples with problems not related to alcohol, one psychotic, three officers depressed by deaths and two officers who killed people and suffered as a result. In addition, it tries to increase understanding of stress and counsellor training. The program is considered to be deficient in scope and administrative efficiency, but is considered a limited success and to have value for other police departments. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Law Enforcement Mental Health Occupational Health Safety Stress, Psychological Substance-Related Disorders
• Keywords:
  Psychological-stress; Programs; Psychological-factors; Drug-abuse; Sociological-factors; Law-enforcement-officers; Patrolmen; Emotional-disorders; Emotional-stress; Psychological-disorders;
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DBBS - Division of Biomedical and Behavioral Sciences
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  217-225
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00058007
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1975 Dec; :217-225
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1976
• NORA Priority Area:
  Psychologic Disorders
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Job Stress and the Police Officer: Identifying Stress Reduction Techniques, Proceeding of a Symposium, Division of Biomedical and Behavioral Science, NIOSH, HEW Publication No. (NIOSH) 76-187
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/236828/cdc_236828_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]