Police suicide tactics for prevention and intervention

Hackett, Dell P. (Added Author). Violanti, John M. (Added Author).

Summary: The range of information in this book is broad and offers strategies and tactics that may help to prevent suicides. It was written by several skilled and caring professionals, and it was their aim to give law enforcement officers, administrators, and mental health professionals additional information and skills in dealing with law enforcement officers in crisis. It will be interesting and useful to those who would read it with the intention of understanding this dilemma faced by law enforcement and who have a desire to continue the search for possible solutions. The book contains far more than.

Record details

ISBN: 9780398084271 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0398084270 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xxvi, 131 p.) : ill.
Publisher: Springfield, Ill. : Charles C. Thomas, c2003.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User. CatMonthString:jan.13 CatBulkString:jan.03.13
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Foreword / James T. Reese -- Preface -- Chap. 1. Police suicide : tactics for prevention / John M. Violanti -- Chap. 2. Suicide and the police / Dell P. Hackett -- Chap. 3. Clinicians, cops, and suicide / Daniel W. Clark and Elizabeth K. White -- Chap. 4. QPR : police suicide prevention / Paul Quinnett and Vickie M. Watson -- Chap. 5. Departmental barriers to mental health treatment : a precursor to police officer suicide / Dickson Diamond -- Chap. 6. Suicide and the police culture / John M. Violanti -- Chap. 7. Trust and the suicidal police officer / Claudia L. Greene -- Chap. 8. Effective postvention for police suicide / Robert Loo -- Chap. 9. Police suicides : responding to the needs of the family / Theresa T. Tate -- Chap. 10. Police suicide prevention : conclusions and future directions / John M. Violanti -- Author index -- Subject index.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.