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Reflections of a Police Psychologist is an interesting journey through the experiences, thoughts, and observations of a seasoned police veteran. It is written for police officers and those who would like a glimpse into the world of policing from the perspective of a police psychologist. Topics of discussion include transitioning into policing, police and personal stress, surviving critical incidents, police peer support teams, police marriage and family, coping with death and loss, mental illness, interacting with persons that are mentally ill, suicide, and life after a police career. The insights of Dr. Digliani apply equally well to those outside of the policing profession.
Jack A. Digliani is a psychologist and former deputy sheriff, police officer, and detective. He has served as the police psychologist and peer support team clinical supervisor for the Fort Collins Police Services, the Loveland Police Department, and the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office.

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Publié par	Xlibris US
Date de parution	24 octobre 2022
Nombre de lectures	4
EAN13	9781669849568
Langue	English

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Reflections of a Police Psychologist

Primary Considerations in Policing

Third Edition-R
Reflections of a Police Psychologist

Primary Considerations in Policing
Information for police officers and those that would like to better understand the worlds of policing and police psychology

Jack A. Digliani, PhD, EdD

Copyright © 2022 by Jack A. Digliani, PhD, EdD.

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Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Author’s Notes
Introduction

Chapter 1The Transition
Chapter 2Field Training and PATROL
Chapter 3Police Stress and Occupational Health
Chapter 4Critical Incidents
Chapter 5Critical Incident Group Debriefings
Chapter 6Peer Support and Police Peer Support Teams
Chapter 7Police Marriage and Family
Chapter 8Coping with Death and Mourning
Chapter 9Interacting with Persons that are Mentally Ill
Chapter 10Suicide, Family, and Police Officers
Chapter 11Life After a Police Career
Chapter 12Reflections of a Police Psychologist

Appendix A Peer Support Team Code of Ethical Conduct
Appendix B The Imperatives
Appendix C History of the FCPD/FCPS Peer Support Team

About the Author

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Acknowledgements
I would like to thank my colleagues and those police officers, deputy sheriffs, state troopers, park rangers, and other law enforcement officers who have contributed to this book by sharing their thoughts, feelings, and experiences. I owe a debt of gratitude to the spouses of officers and the civilian employees of police agencies that also helped to shape the ideas presented.
I am grateful to Bruce Glasscock, the Fort Collins, Colorado Police Services (FCPS) Chief of Police from 1984 to 1990. It was under his administration that in 1986, the first FCPS peer support team was created. Thank you to Howard “Bud” Reed, Sherri Wagner, and Dave Wilson, the police officers who joined me in comprising the first FCPS peer support team (Appendix C).
Special thanks to Tim Brown and (A.S.) Bryce Griffin for their enduring support, assistance, and professional contributions. Both are certified instructors of the Police Peer Support Team Training program and continue to advance the principles of law enforcement peer support.
I would like to especially thank Lorie, my wife of many years for her unwavering support, faith, and love. Now and forever.
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This book includes ideas, information, and documents created by the author and others. In cases where the source of specific information is known, the source has been cited. The author acknowledges the countless contributions of those persons whose thoughts have been so completely incorporated into general knowledge that they are no longer readily identified.
Foreword
The streets are protected each and every day by cops who feel, cops who love, cops who need and want—just like you. They are sometimes single, sometimes married, sometimes moms and dads. All have bills to pay, yards to mow and a life away from the job. Yet even off duty, they carry the emotional baggage and mental strain of what they sometimes have to do to stay alive and make it home. Occasionally, the bucket in their mind reserved for miserable memories and pictures gets full and threatens to overflow. When that happens, there is no one more valuable—more indispensable— than a competent police psychologist. He or she can literally save the life of a hero worth saving. A gallant soldier we pay to protect our community.
Dr. Jack—Jack Digliani—does this like few others. He knows, like few police psychologists can, because before he was a shrink, he was a cop. While attending university to become a leading expert in this highly specialized field of psychology, he worked as a police officer in Wyoming and Colorado, learning first-hand the trials and tribulations with which he would one day be called upon to help his brothers and sisters—the men and women still on the street.
Those who first come to him as his patients ultimately discover that Dr. Jack is a peer, a friend, a brother, and a trusted confidant. I did. I still do.
Trooper Jim Geeting, Wyoming Highway Patrol, Retired.
Author of: The Badge – Thoughts from a State Trooper
Shots Fired Shots Forgiven, The Steve Watt Story
The Badge Part Two - More Thoughts from a Retired State Trooper
Truckers and Troopers
Cops and Kids - A Very Special Friendship
The American Trucker
Author’s Notes
I have chosen to write in a style that I feel is conducive to easier reading. For the most part, I have taken the liberty of using the masculine pronoun in sentences that require a pronoun. This permits the avoidance of the more descriptive yet cumbersome phrases like he or she , himself or herself, and they or themselves . Unfortunately, the English language does not have a single pronoun that is inclusive of all persons. Rest assured that unless otherwise specified, the information applies equally well and is intended to include everyone. I hope that this style of writing, selected only for ease of reading, is viewed as nothing more than convention. Certainly, it is so intended.
The use of the terms officer and police officer are intended to include civilian personnel of law enforcement agencies, deputy sheriffs, state troopers, park rangers, and other law enforcement or peace officers at all levels of government.
Although many issues and concepts are presented and discussed in terms of police officers and policing, most are equally applicable to those outside of police work.
Reflections of a Police Psychologist, Third Edition-R includes changes made in the earlier Revised Edition (2010), Second Edition (2015), and Third Edition (2022). For greater comprehensiveness, the Third Edition-R incorporates some information previously published in Contemporary Issues in Police Psychology (Digliani, 2015) and the Law Enforcement Peer Support Team Manual (Digliani, 2022).
The Third Edition-R, like those before it, includes several references to the Colorado Revised Statutes (C.R.S.). These are used only to illustrate a point, clarify a concept, or demonstrate an option. Therefore, most of the discussion involving the C.R.S. applies equally well to all states and the federal level of government.
The various chapters of this book may be read independently of one another. References to other chapters are indicated when appropriate.
Introduction
General Psychology and Police Psychology
Police psychology differs from general psychology in its emphasis of interest. The major areas of interest in police psychology are those that are inclusive to the profession of policing. These range from the psychological assessment of police candidates to retirement and life after a police career. Because the fundamental principles of psychology apply equally well to the profession of policing as they do any occupation, it makes sense to think of police psychology as the study and application of fundamental psychological principles as they relate to the profession of policing.
A psychologist that works in the area of police psychology is called a police psychologist . Currently there is no legal definition or title protection for the use of this designation, although use of the title “psychologist” is regulated in all states.
Police psychologists are professionally associated through a number of organizations, including the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and the American Psychological Association (APA). The APA recognizes police psychology as a specialty within the field of psychology in Division 18, Psychologists in Public Service , Section: Police and Public Safety (n.d., para.,1).
Police psychology is not criminal psychology. Police psychologists work with police officers. Criminal psychologists work with criminal offenders. Professionally, there is no prohibition against a psychologist working with police officers and criminal offenders, or criminal psychologists consulting with police agencies, so long as established ethical standards of conduct and statutory requirements are maintained. However, most police psychologists limit their practice to police officers, civilian employees of law enforcement agencies, and their families. This is the focus of concern and the true realm of police psychologists.
Law Enforcement and Policing
It is more accurate to use the term policing than it is to use the term law enforcement because police officers in modern society do much more than enforce the law. Although law enforcement is a major responsibility of police officers, p