| Description |
1 online resource (248 p.) |
| Contents |
Front Cover -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of figures and tables -- Glossary -- About the author -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Why the need to be resilient? How it feels to be a police officer in the UK and why -- Introduction -- The times we are in -- Changing crimes and changing minds -- What officers and staff tell us themselves -- How neuroscience gives a voice to the policing brain -- What's so different for policing? -- Conclusion -- Chapter 1 snapshot -- Checklist -- 2 Risks to resilience in operational policing |
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Introduction -- Crossing the thin blue line -- Survival of the fittest -- States of the policing mind -- Contraction and fragmentation -- Threat perception -- Trauma -- Lack of trust -- Cynicism -- The C-word -- and getting tired of it -- Isolation -- Lack of talking -- The body -- Powerlessness or reduced self-efficacy beliefs -- Deferment of happiness -- Who do we think we are? -- Chapter 2 snapshot -- Checklist -- 3 What might be happening in the brain? Introducing simple neuroscience for policing -- Introduction -- Why is understanding the brain so useful? -- What is a brain? |
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The basics: your evolutionary brain -- Brain function for police resilience -- Trauma exposure -- The negativity bias -- Talking and not talking -- Modes and zones of thinking in the brain -- Defaulting to police mode -- Seeing red and going green -- Being and doing -- The body-brain connection -- Mirror neurons -- The vagus nerve -- The chemical messengers we could call feelings -- What now? Your turn -- Chapter 3 snapshot -- Checklist -- 4 Turning science into action: resilience practices for policing -- Introduction -- The science is nice, but is this for me? -- So, how do the techniques work? |
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Getting started -- Your personal toolkit: PPE for the brain3 -- A summary of the techniques -- Techniques -- Daily techniques -- Starting your day -- Morning mindset -- During your day -- Checking in -- Body sweep -- Breathing space -- Eye-gaze expansion -- Tips -- At the end of your day -- Sleep debrief -- Attitude of gratitude -- Little wins and giggles -- Tips -- Mastering threat perception -- Sensing threat but needing to get the better of it? -- 'What's for lunch?' -- F.E.A.R. vs T.H.R.E.A.T -- Fear face-off |
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Feeling disproportionately anxious about a harmless interaction? (fear in interpersonal interaction):14 how to imagine life from someone else's disadvantage -- From F-word to C-bomb -- When the day's events are a heavy weight to carry home -- create clear boundaries between job and not-job -- Boots-at-the-door -- Constructing a personal story in your mind about an incident?: acknowledging the discomfort and neutralising the narrative in your head -- Labelling 'there is...' -- Getting creative (bit weird) -- Tips |
| Summary |
How does it feel to be a police officer? Jessica Miller uses the most recent neuroscience and real-life examples to explore risks to individual resilience. A compulsory read for anyone with an interest in policing, the book offers practical resilience techniques and policy recommendations for police officers facing crime in a post-COVID world |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 11, 2022) |
| Subject |
Police psychology.
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Resilience (Personality trait)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology.
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Resilience (Personality trait)
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Police psychology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781447361923 |
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144736192X |
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9781447361916 |
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1447361911 |
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