Trauma Resilience Training for Police: Psychophysiological and Performance Effects

Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-9

  Arnetz, Bengt B ^a,d   Nevedal, Dana C ^a   Lumley, Mark A ^a   Backman, Lena ^b   Lublin, Ake ^c  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Stockholm Centre of Public Health   (Sweden)

^c Red Cross Hospital   (Sweden)

^d WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

First responders; High stress performance; Occupational trauma exposure; Preparatory training; Primary prevention; Trauma resilience

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955037105     PISSN: 08820783     EISSN: 19366469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11896-008-9030-y     Document Type: Article

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