Publisher's Synopsis
How do police, first responders and law enforcement mentally handle the impacts of mass casualty events? Preparing for the Unimaginable: How Chiefs can Safeguard Officer Mental Health Before After Mass Casualty Events jointly produced by the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) and National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) offers expert advice and practical tips for helping officers to heal emotionally, managing the public, dealing with the media, building relationships with other first responder agencies, and much more. This comprehensive guide is chronologically organized, beginning with pre-incident preparation and concluding with long-term aftercare. It includes explanations, narrative personal stories, quick facts, tip sheets, summaries, and a handout section with resources for various situations. . The National Alliance on Mental Health worked together to bring together chiefs, mental health professionals and others with first-hand knowledge to provide readers with a concise compendium of what worked and what did not as a way to present best practices learned from colleagues that may have experienced a mass casualty event. Police chiefs, law enforcement personnel, first responders, emergency management, community personnel, medical teams, and mental health professionals may be interested in this educational reference volume in efforts to handle the aftermaths of trauma and violence while bridging the paths to mental health support and wellness. Police academy, emergency management, military science, criminal justice, social work, and psychology students may also be interested in this resource. Related products:A Study of Active Shooter Incidents in the United States Between 2000 and 2013 can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/027-001-00101-3West Side Story Project Toolkit: Crime Prevention on a New Stage can be found here:https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/027-000-01419-4Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice resources collection can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/security-defense-law-enforcement/law-enforcement-criminal-justice
