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Promoting Wellness and Resiliency in Correctional Officers (Hardcover)
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Correctional officers face considerable stress, risk, and danger
that lead to poor physical and mental health outcomes. In fact,
their life expectancy is 15 years shorter than the national
average. Public perception and media portrayals of correctional
officers tend to reinforce stereotypes of brutish, improper, and
uncontrolled behavior. Yet the reality is that correctional
officers are operating a default public and mental health system
for a sizeable portion of our society, a responsibility that
exposes them to considerable risk. These negative effects have been
compounded by an international staffing crisis that has made our
jails and prisons far less safe for working officers. To address
this situation, this book features an examination of a combined
11,313 correctional officers and 42 of their family members in the
United States, Canada, and Europe. It explores proactive strategies
that can reduce rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in
correctional officers, which currently surpasses those found in
returning military veterans who experienced combat. It then delves
into the dynamics of correctional officer suicide, featuring the
perspectives of their families. This book highlights innovative
approaches that can build on existing strengths including the role
of international exchange programs. It presents universal themes
that impact the safety, wellbeing, and resiliency of correctional
officers, along with positive outcomes related to evidence-based
programs that maximize health in the correctional workplace. This
book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students of
criminology, mental health, public policy, social work, and
sociology. The chapters in this book were originally published as a
special issue of the journal Criminal Justice Studies.
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