Special Issue: Updating Global Efforts to Promote and Secure First Responder Wellness - Table of Contents Preview
A special issue of the JCSWB focused on wellness within the policing sector will be published in February 2023. This issue aims to explore and build upon continued developments in the policies, practices, and knowledge bases for improving mental health and general wellness outcomes for police service employees, their families, and their CSWB partners.
Research published in this special issue will be highlighted at a JCSWB session at the Canadian Policing Wellness Check Conference, hosted by the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police. The conference is being held March 6-8, 2023, in Ottawa, Ontario.
Publication of this special issue is made possible through the support received from Deloitte Inc. Thank you for your support in bringing this important and timely research to a global audience and for helping to share knowledge that will bring awareness and improvements to mental health and general wellness issues facing the policing community.
A preview of the contents and contributors is listed below.
Guest Editors
Dr. Linna Tam-Seto, Ph.D., O.T.Reg.(Ont.), Assistant Professor, Trauma and Recovery Unit, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada; Research Scientist, Families Matter Research Group.
Dr. Jeff Thompson, Ph.D, Adjunct Associate Research Scientist, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA; Instructor, College of Leadership and Public Service, Lipscomb University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Table of Contents Preview
Resetting and informing a new baseline for wellness in policing
Jeff Thompson and Linna Tam-Seto
Police need wellness checks too: Embedding a culture of wellness and resilience in policing
Lauren Jackson and Michelle Theroux
NYPD pathways to wellness: ”R U OK”
Bill Bratton and Cathleen Perez
Addressing the mental health impacts of COVID-19 on Canada’s frontline workers
Amber Schick, Alexandra Heber, and Elizabeth Bose
Mental health and wellness initiatives supporting United States law enforcement personnel: The current state-of-play
Jacqueline M. Drew and Sherri Martin
Stakeholder experiences of a public safety personnel work reintegration program
Chelsea Jones, Shaylee Spencer, Brenda Juby, Elly O’Greysik, Lorraine Smith-MacDonald, Michelle Vincent, and Suzette Brémault-Phillips
Mental health stigma and help-seeking intentions in police employees
Daniel W. Grupe
Mindful of authority: A snapshot of the meditation and contemplative practices of some Canadian Commissioned Police Officers
Les Sylven
Prevalence, pattern, and a leader’s intervention—The impact of alcohol abuse in police and public safety organizations
Paul B. Rinkoff
I’m not faking being sick, I’m faking being well: The need for leadership in mental health for policing
Grant Edwards
Employee support: Where have we come from, and where are we going?
Noreen Tehrani and Ian Hesketh
Mental Health Secretariat: Collaboration for public safety personnel (PSP) mental health in Ontario
Beth Milliard and Robert Chrismas
We encourage you to register as a reader to be notified when the issue is published, and be sure to follow the Journal on Twitter and LinkedIn for the latest updates.
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About the Canadian Policing Wellness Check Conference
The Canadian Policing Wellness Check Conference, hosted by the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police is being held March 6-8, 2023 in Ottawa, Ontario, led, designed and moderated by Norman E. Taylor, Editor-in-Chief, JCSWB, in cooperation with several standing committees of the CACP and supported by the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC).
The over-arching goal of the conference is to establish a renewed national baseline upon which to build continued developments in the policies, practices, and knowledge bases for improving mental health and general wellness outcomes; to examine and remedy inequities experienced in wellness outcomes and available services; to restore momentum to the most promising prior initiatives; and, to highlight and advance innovative forward strategies based on new lessons learned.
A selection of papers published in JCSWB’s special wellness issue will drive and inform a Journal led session at the Wellness Check Conference.
To register or learn more about the conference, visit:
https://www.cacp.ca/canadian-policing-wellness-check-conference.html?mid=601
