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A police officer in Pleasant Ridge, Michigan was desperate and wide open to emotional pain. On the outside he looked all right, but he wasn't. His post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms were classic. He was emotionally ill. This book is a must for law enforcement agencies and personnel throughout the country.
Customer Reviews:
Told it like it is.......2001-11-07
Having been a cop myself for almost 18 years along with being injured five times in five years, being diagnosed with PTSD, and also having to take a medical retirement-Ken hits the highlights of being a cop.
Few people know what it's like to go to work and some days have life or death situations happen several times in a day. Ken's book tells of the fight AFTER the fact of "mind against body."
After doing booksignings myself (ONE STANDS ALONE)in several states this summer, I've had to mention Ken's book several times. It is a true "been there, done that." Thank the Good Lord he made it out okay and is bringing PTSD among cops to the public eye! I'll definatly give it five stars!
PTSD.......2000-06-15
I never realized policemen were human until I read this book! I found the book very interesting and read it in two days. I have a new respect for policemen - it can't be easy!
A note to Ken and others - I am not a policeman but I did have PTSD about a memory that was tormenting me. I have had major success in dealing with it through my excellent therapist and the use of a technique called EMDR (I think it stands for Eye Movement Desensitize Reprogram). This technique has been incredibly successful for me.
You are not alone!.......2000-06-03
My applause to Ken Rogers for articulating his lived experience of post traumatic stress disorder. As a mental health practitioner familiar with treating children and adults who have suffered trauma, I join Ken in his hopefulness that spreading the message, "you are not alone," to our public servants will support them in their struggle to reclaim their lives and heal from the hurt of PTSD.
Carol A. Chambers, PHD, LLP, LPC Limited Licensed Psychologist, Licensed Professional Counselor
PTSD and Police Officers.......2000-04-23
Outstanding accounts of Ken's life as a police officer. The content is well organized and readable. From the moment I picked the book up, I had a really hard time putting it down. I read the entire book in less than two days. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a real problem that has been hidden from the public for years and has just recently been attributed to police and emergency service work. The general public's perception of a police officer is one who is stone faced and feels no emotion, but Ken makes you realize through his personal accounts, that police officers are human as well. Great Job.
A new appreciation for police offiers.......2000-04-22
This book is unique. It is written by a policeman, describing his own feelings.
After reading this book, I have a whole new appreciation for police officers and what they are exposed to on a daily basis. Thank goodness, there are people who want to do that job.
Ken Rogers describes the stressful events that caused his traumatic stress disorder, but doesn't go into so much detail that your focus is lost on the events.
He clearly points out that the "victims" can be just as much the police officers as the person or persons involved in any violent situation. Our society doesn't see policeman as victims of their occupation.
You will realize from reading this book that the damaging feelings are those never discussed. He was not the type of person who reached out or trusted others with his feelings. After being involved in a shooting, not only was he traumatized by his reactions, but he also wasn't able to reach out to others for help - for a long time.
It is very clear that he wrote this book to help other police officers. And just as important -- he wrote the book to help his family & friends have a better understanding of the trauma he felt.
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An insider perspective from a "cop doc on the job," this book is the first of its kind written in response to a need for a specialized guide for clinicians that operationally defines and responsibly treats what Dan Rudofossi terms Police and Public Safety Complex PTSD. In reading this book, you are led through an understanding of how to work with police officers who experience cumulative loss in trauma. "Doc Dan" initiates you into an original cultural competence of how and why his theory works in practice. You will leave the journey with a practical sense of how the ecological context and ethological motivation are part of the psychological presentation of almost all officers suffering from complex trauma and loss. This guide is crucial reading, original in its breadth and scope of perspective on how to intervene with the traumatized officer. Toward that end, Rudofossi presents his Eco-Ethological Existential Analysis of Police and Public Safety Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Emotive, affective, cognitive, behavioral, and existential ranges of expression of trauma are vast, diverse, and often intense in police officers. This book delivers applied theory with clinical examples, including practical interventions for the clinician and handouts for the officer-patient. The clinician will be assisted in encountering officers' existential suffering from the edge of despair to the precipice of meaning. The guide is at once stimulating, exciting, and very serious in its potential for clinical interventions.
Customer Reviews:
Great Book.......2007-07-30
Dr. Rudofossi takes us all on one of the darkest journeys ever. Consistently jolting and yet thoroughly professional all the way through. I can't wait for the follow up to this book.
Excellent Resource for anyone working with trauma victims and PTSD.......2007-07-19
"Dr. Daniel Rudofossi presents rare insights and demonstrates extraordinary clinical skills in his colossal work, Working with Traumatized Police-Officer Patients. He offers originality and creatively blends existing therapeutic modalities into his eco-ethological approach, which establishes the dignity and prizes the uniqueness of each individual officer-patient who has suffered Complex PTSD. Written by an insider-who was the street cop and became the cop-doc-this treatise will be an invaluable training manual for those attempting to work with traumatized public safety professionals. May it serve to heal the invisible wounds suffered by many in their tour of duty to protect public safety."--(Ann V. Graber, Ph.D., Author, Viktor Frankl's Logotherapy)
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Police Officer Stress: Sources and Solutions
Dennis J. Stevens
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Stress among police officers (DHHS)
Joseph J Hurrell
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Written by a psychologist and law enforcement officers, this book provides an overview of stress sources of, physiology, how much is too much? Specific stress factors in law enforcement, (hazards, supervision, testifying, post-shooting trauma, undercover assignments, women in law enforcement, cultural diversity). The book closes with chapters on controlling stress (physical and psychological techniques, developing support systems the work-family connection, modifying stress through organizational development.
Customer Reviews:
A must read for officers.......2000-07-23
Police officers need to read this book and to be aware of all stressors on the job. Police stress is a killer. The more the officer knows the better the chances of dealing with stress effectively. I recommend it.
Wayne D. Ford, Ph.D., author of Managing Police Stress. docwifford@msn.com
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This digital document is an article from Public Personnel Management, published by International Personnel Management Association on December 22, 1992. The length of the article is 5960 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: The effects of hardiness, police stress, and life stress on police officers' illness and absenteeism.
Author: Thomas Li-Ping Tang
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Public Personnel Management (Refereed)
Date: December 22, 1992
Publisher: International Personnel Management Association
Volume: v21
Issue: n4
Page: p493(1)
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Title: Police and PTSD.(care and treatment)
Author: Paul J. Fink
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Clinical Psychiatry News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2006
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Volume: 34
Issue: 5
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Title: Police chaplains are there for officers under stress.(Religion)(More than 80 professionals gather in Eugene for three days of workshops)
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The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: February 20, 2004
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Title: Police Fatigue: an accident waiting to happen.(effects of exhaustion)
Author: Dennis Lindsey
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Anne LaBastille wrote her best-selling book Woodswoman about the peace and solitude she found in the log cabin she built at Black Bear Lake. Eventually, however, the outside world intruded. Woodswoman II is the equally engrossing story of the author's decision to build a tiny cabin retreat fashioned after Thoreau's Walden, of her life with two German shepherds as companions, and of her renewed bond with nature. Originally published under the title Beyond Black Bear Lake. Over 200,000 copies of the Woodswoman series have been sold.
Customer Reviews:
The Woods in Anne's Eyes.......2001-07-09
With the Adirondack setting, Woodswoman II, by Anne Labastille, captures a way of life most people will never know about. The way Anne talks about her life as a woodswoman pulls the reader into her world and life. There are also many good details. While building her second house, Anne faces many difficulties including temporary blindness when she gets cement dust in her eyes, and dropping a large spruce on her leg, injuring herself so she cannot walk for two months. As she chooses her dog, the decision becomes the reader's and the excitement is on them. Around Anne her beautiful world is disappearing to acid rain and people. As the reader progresses through this story he or she will find the true meaning of the woods. The setting and unusual way of writing brings this book together to make a fabulous story of Anne's life. Her unique way of writing shows who she is. She talks about smaller details in great detail, talking about the general one a small mystery. When Anne was building her house, she talks about when her boat flipped when carrying supplies to her cabin. She also talks about her feelings a lot in her autobiography. She explains how she likes her doctor more then why she was temporarily blind when she gets some cement dust in her eyes. Another reason I give this book five stars is the way she decries her surroundings and her land. When Anne is on a walk she Comes upon a cliff and transfer you there in to the fog and wet green moss. She plants a photograph in the reader's mind so that the reader can find every thing in Anne's cabin. As you see there are reasons to like this book. There is one and only one reason why I would not recommend this book is that it skips from one topic to another for example, she talks about building her house, she suddenly starts the next chapter talking about acid rain and polluting. This also happened when she got hurt and talked that in the middle of a chapter about her house. This reason is not bad enough to make this book a book I would not recommend. This book is a wonderful Adironacks story about a young woman and her dogs.
The Honeymoon Is Over; The Love Deepens.......2001-06-14
This second installment of the 'Woodswoman' trilogy is a step up in maturity for Dr. LaBastille. "Woodswoman" (one), dealt largely with the purchase of land and the building of a dream cabin on a remote lake. This books becomes more real, as Dr. LaBastille begins to have to worry about trespassing intruders, acid rain and the real threat that the government can pose in this unique environment. Determined not to let these new problems destroy her outlook or her life, Dr. LaBastille begins to build a second cabin - further into the wilderness. Encompassing both the new thrill of building a more isloated respite along with some freinds, brings another insight into Anne LaBastille's life ten years later. Numerous elderly Adirondack guides become great friends, sharing their own stories of the wilderness. A new romance evolves and the author has to deal with the reality of having to deal with both worlds. This book speaks not only of the wilderness, but the grand people that make and keep it unique. Of course, Dr. LaBastille's dogs are always given star treatment and her love of these animals is heartfelt. More refined and a little less naive, this second 'woodswoman' book will break and warm your heart at the same time.
Recommended for city folk yearning for wilderness living........2000-09-07
Woodswoman II is the continuing biography of author Anne LaBastille, who found peace and solitude in the log cabin she built for herself at Black Bear Lake, in the Adirondack Park of upstate New York. This is the engaging, compelling, sometimes inspiring story of how Anne decided to retreat a half-mile father into the wilderness behind her main cabin and build a second, tiny cabin (fashioned after the one in Thoreau's "Walden") in which she could write and contemplate. Woodswoman II focuses on her renewed bond with nature, her companionship with two German shepherd dogs; and her sustained and sustaining relationship with a man fully as independent as herself. Highly recommended reading for anyone who has ever contemplating leaving the stress of urban life behind for the contemplative isolation of the wilderness.
Customer Reviews:
Still love Anne's stories.......2006-09-12
I greatly enjoyed Anne's stories about the ways and means people go to reach her. This book isn't as fun as Woodswoman, but any Anne LaBastille devotee will still love it, as I have. Some of it gets a little taxing as she is using the book to teach about acid rain and other environmental problems, but they are very real to her world.
Keep writing, Anne!
A Bit of a Turn-Off.......2006-01-04
I, too, was enthralled by Anne Labastille's "Woodswoman" and eagerly bought the hardcopy of this book when it first came out. I have to say I found it a bit of a turn-off. Her reasons for moving father back in the woods gave me the same feeling I get whenever I see gated communities: as if the people living in them consider themselves too special and elite to associate with us common folk. I haven't bought any more of the author's books since.
Further Back Into The Woods..........2003-06-24
This second installment of the 'Woodswoman' trilogy is a step up in maturity for Dr. LaBastille. "Woodswoman" (one), dealt largely with the purchase of land and the building of a dream cabin on a remote lake. This books becomes more real, as Dr. LaBastille begins to have to worry about trespassing intruders, acid rain and the real threat that the government can pose in this unique environment. Determined not to let these new problems destroy her outlook or her life, Dr. LaBastille begins to build a second cabin - further into the wilderness. Encompassing both the new thrill of building a more isloated respite along with some freinds, brings another insight into Anne LaBastille's life ten years later. Numerous elderly Adirondack guides become great friends, sharing their own stories of the wilderness. A new romance evolves and the author has to deal with the reality of having to deal with both worlds. This book speaks not only of the wilderness, but the grand people that make and keep it unique. Of course, Dr. LaBastille's dogs are always given star treatment and her love of these animals is heartfelt. More refined and a little less naive, this second 'woodswoman' book will break and warm your heart at the same time
Beyond Black Bear Lake.......2000-05-22
I thought this book explained how Anne was feeling in a time of remorse. Being from the country area I too understand how Anne could want to retreat. It's horrifing to see the world of wilderness torn up by business. People walking around on your land, bugging you ever chance they get. Thinking for themselves, and not you and your privacy. It's a shame. I think Annes book explained how alot of us may feel inside. The joy of nature can sure bring out the best in us.
Disappointing after the first book.......2000-05-16
I was disappointed in this second book and enjoyed the first one (Woodswoman) much more. I had a hard time connecting emotionally with this book and did not feel the same sense of adventure as with the 1st book. I would definitely recommend Woodswoman, but you can skip this book.
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