Job stress and the police officer: identifying stress reduction techniques.

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• Personal Author:
  Eisenberg T
• Description:
  Police work has been identified as one of a number of high stress occupations. Because of the importance of stressor identification and understanding, prior to the articulation and development of stress reduction techniques, this paper focuses upon the former. Based upon the author's experience as a police officer, over 30 alleged/implied sources of psychological stress are identified, discussed, and organized into six categories: intra-organizational practices and characteristics, inter-organizational practices and characteristics, criminal justice system practices and characteristics, public practices and characteristics, police work itself, and police officer him/herself. Collectively, the stressors appear to support the conclusion that law enforcement is a high stress occupation. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Law Enforcement Mental Health Occupational Health Safety Stress, Psychological
• Keywords:
  Law-enforcement-officers; Psychological-stress; Psychological-factors; Hazards; Psychological-effects
• 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:
  26-34
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00058024
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1975 Dec; :26-34
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1976
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Job Stress and the Police Officer: Identifying Stress Reduction Techniques, Proceedings 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/236834/cdc_236834_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]