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Disaster Resilience
Charles C Thomas 2006; US$ 53.95This book will fill the gaps that hamper the effective utilization of the resilience and sustainability concepts within emergency planning: one concerns the lack of a comprehensive review of this multi-level concept; the second relates to its multi-level nature. Specifically, the text identifies a need for the systematic integration of these different... more...
Posttraumatic Stress Intervention
Charles C Thomas 2000; US$ 38.95Since the 1980's, posttraumatic stress intervention has focused primarily on "psychological debriefings" to help prevent posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). While debriefing is said to be important, mental health professionals are uncertain about outcomes, and there is agreement that debriefing may be somewhat hindered by its pathogenic... more...
Police Trauma
Charles C Thomas 1999; US$ 61.95The police fight a different kind of war, and the enemy is the police officerís own civilian population: those who engage in crime, social indignity, and inhumane treatment of others. The result for the police officer is both physical and psychological battering, occasionally culminating in the officer sacrificing his or her life to protect others.... more...
Traumatic Stress in Critical Occupations
Charles C Thomas 1996; US$ 52.95This book provides a comprehensive review of the recognition, consequences and treatment of traumatic stress in critical occupations. The term "critical occupation" describes both the critical role that members of the emergency and helping professions play in protecting communities and their members and the fact that, in the course of acting... more...
Working in High Risk Environments
Charles C Thomas 2012; US$ 34.95The impact of events such as the 9/11 terrorist attacks and Hurricane Katrina were felt across the spectrum of organizations. Such events provide vivid illustrations of the exceptional circumstances that emergency and protective service agencies and businesses alike can encounter. The goal of this book is to broaden the perspectives on the populations... more...
Wildfire and Community
Charles C Thomas 2012; US$ 49.95Wildfires represent a growing threat to environments, to people, communities, and to societies worldwide, particularly in the United States, Southern Europe, and Australia. Recognition of this growing risk has highlighted a need to develop people's capacity to adapt to annually occurring events that could increase in frequency and severity over... more...
Traumatic Stress in Police Officers
Charles C Thomas 2009; US$ 53.95The objective of this book is to demonstrate how adopting a career perspective can provide a more comprehensive conceptualization of traumatic stress processes as they apply to police officers and agencies and provide a framework that can be used to guide research and intervention agenda in ways that reflect the changes that can occur over the course... more...
Promoting Capabilities to Manage Posttraumatic Stress
Charles C Thomas 2003; US$ 38.95This book provides a systematic review of the variables and mechanisms that underpin resilience and growth in professions who face a high risk of regular and repetitive exposure to adverse or hazardous events. Given the inevitability of this exposure, promoting the acceptance and practice of this paradigm is essential for facilitating the capability... more...
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