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Managing Stress


Developing a Law Enforcement Stress Program for Officers and Their Families

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    National Institute of Justice (NIJ), 1997. This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date presentation of a number of police stress programs that have made significant efforts to help departments, individual officers, civilian employees, and officers' families cope with the stresses of a law enforcement career. (NCJ 163175)

Executive Summary of the Law Enforcement Assistance & Development (LEAD) Program: Reduction of Familial and Organizational Stress in Law Enforcement

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    National Institute of Justice (NIJ), 2001. This document provides an overview of the Law Enforcement Assistance & Development (LEAD) Program. (NCJ 192276)

Final Grant Report of the Law Enforcement Assistance & Development (LEAD) Program: Reduction of Familial and Organizational Stress in Law Enforcement

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    National Institute of Justice (NIJ), 2001. This document highlights the Law Enforcement Assistance & Development (LEAD) Program in Ames, Iowa. (NCJ 192277)

Law Enforcement and Corrections Family Support: Development and Evaluation of a Stress Management Program for Officers and Their Spouses, Executive Summary

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    National Institute of Justice (NIJ), November 2002. This report summarizes the development and evaluation of a program that provided an innovative stress prevention and treatment program for police officers and their families. (NCJ 197899)

Law Enforcement and Corrections Family Support: Development and Evaluation of a Stress Management Program for Officers and Their Spouses, Final Report

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    National Institute of Justice (NIJ), November 2002. This paper reports on a project designed to develop, demonstrate, and test an innovative stress prevention and treatment program for law enforcement officers. (NCJ 197900)

Law Enforcement Family Support Initiative Project

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    National Institute of Justice (NIJ), 1999. This report describes the Collier County, Florida Law Enforcement Family Support Initiative Project and Florida's Critical Incident Stress Management Team. (NCJ 185890)

Law Enforcement Family Support: Training Program for Reduction of Stress Among Law Enforcement Officers and Their Families

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    National Institute of Justice (NIJ), 1998. This manual presents materials and guidelines for New York State's program of police training on stress reduction and management. (NCJ 185969)

National Institute of Justice Final Report "Project Shields"

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    National Institute of Justice (NIJ), 2000. The project specifically addressed: the need for a well-characterized, psychometrically validated and up-to-date police stress assessment tool; the lack of information on domestic violence in police families and its relationship, if any, with police stress; and the identification of officer-driven strategies to address police stress, especially police stress-related domestic violence. (NCJ 185892)

On-the-Job-Stress in Policing--Reducing It and Preventing It

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    National Institute of Justice (NIJ), January 2000. This article summarizes an NIJ report that documents the causes and effects of job-related stress on law enforcement officers and their families. (NCJ 180079)

Organizational Approach to Developing a Stress Program

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    National Institute of Justice (NIJ), May 2000. A project conducted by the Longview Police Guild in Longview, Washington started in December 1998 and funded by the NIJ, focused on the use of an organizational approach to address police occupational stress. (NCJ 187779)

Program for the Reduction of Stress for New York City Police Officers and Their Families, Final Report

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    National Institute of Justice (NIJ), December 1998. This report describes the development and operation of a volunteer peer support program funded by an NIJ grant to expand and further develop a program to reduce stress among New York City police officers and their families. (NCJ 185845)

Rookie Stress Program: Line Level Supervisor/Human Relations Training; Executive Summary Report

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    National Institute of Justice (NIJ), 1998. This executive summary report on the Rookie Stress Program of the Miami, Florida Police Department provides proactive, preventive interventions that target the stress and emotional strains that are often experienced by rookie officers and their families. The report also profiles a supplemental training program that provides intensive line-level supervisor skills training to all sergeants and field training officers in the department. (NCJ 1859335)

Stomp Out Stress

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    National Institute of Justice (NIJ), n.d. A report of the findings from a federally supported study to provide a cost-effective, education-based stress intervention program for probation officers within the Harris County (Texas) Community Supervision and Corrections Department, as well as resource material on the curriculum of the intervention program. (NCJ 212419)

Stress and Job Satisfaction in an Urban Sheriff's Department: Contributions of Work and Family History, Community-Oriented Policing and Job Assignment

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    National Institute of Justice (NIJ), June 2003. A study that examines the relationship between stress and job satisfaction among corrections officers, patrol officers, and detectives in an urban sheriff’s department. (NCJ 203978)

Stress in Policing

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    National Institute of Justice (NIJ), 2002. This analysis of police occupational stress and its mitigation develops the thesis that no matter what else may be done to prevent and ameliorate stress, organizational change may hold the key to improving the lives of police officers. (NCJ 198030)