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Name: Chas
Date registered: March 2, 2011
URL: https://www.PolicePTSD.com

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  1. Police and Military Women, Trauma and PTSD Post Traumatic Stress Disorder — September 25, 2012
  2. Police, Fire, Military Concussions, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and PTSD — September 24, 2012
  3. Police Department Mandatory Evaluations of Police Officers with PTSD — August 29, 2012
  4. City policy does not recognize PTSD police officer’s psychological injury — August 10, 2012
  5. Recognizing EMT’s, firefighters or Police Officers: — July 18, 2011

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Sep 25

Police and Military Women, Trauma and PTSD Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

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Military, Police and Fire PTSD Post Traumatic Stress, PTSD Symptoms and Stressors, Trauma, WOMEN ONLY : Police and Military. PTSD Post Traumatic Stress

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Police Women, Trauma and PTSD. According to a government study, Trauma is common in women; five out of ten women experience a traumatic event. Women tend to experience different traumas than men. While both men and women report the same symptoms of PTSD (hyperarousal, reexperiencing, avoidance, and numbing), some symptoms are more common for women …

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Sep 24

Police, Fire, Military Concussions, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and PTSD

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Police and Combat Injury Types

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Police and Military injuries are quite different in many respects than that of a civilian injury. The Police Culture tends to underestimate the short and long term effects, not just one substantial blow to the head, in some cases several over years. Understanding the mechanics of the injury, or the hows, why’s and what happened’s, …

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Aug 29

Police Department Mandatory Evaluations of Police Officers with PTSD

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Department Training, General Discussion, Police Supervisors

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Thank you for your inquiry regarding MANDATORY DEPARTMENT EVALUATIONS OF POLICE OFFICERS WITH PTSD. In order to properly answer your question we need to preface a few variables about how a department would do this. First, as you know departments are required to have documented regulations and manual of procedures that dictate every aspect of …

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Aug 10

City policy does not recognize PTSD police officer’s psychological injury

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Police and Combat Injury Types

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Memphis falls short on PTSD City policy does not recognize police officer’s psychological injury By Amos Maki Monday, April 2, 2012 Memphis Police Department officer Gabriel Lawson was one of dozens of officers who responded to a disturbance at the DoubleTree Hotel Downtown on July 3, 2011. Once inside, Lawson and others found fellow officer Timothy …

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Jul 18

Recognizing EMT’s, firefighters or Police Officers:

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General Discussion

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Recognizing EMT’s, firefighters or Police Officers: with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder PTSD is diagnosed by symptoms. As you read through this page, keep in mind that it takes a professional who knows PTSD to diagnose this disorder from other disorders. One supervisor recently asked me how anyone can separate those with PTSD from the variety of …

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Jul 16

PTSD can attack years later

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PTSD Symptoms and Stressors, Treatment Types for PTSD Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

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PTSD can attack years later Even with no previous symptomsby Allen R. Kates, BCECR, MFAW Author of CopShock, Second Edition: Surviving Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Editor’s note: Be sure to also read the new PoliceOne Series, “Tips for keeping it together after a bad call” “I can’t eat, I can’t sleep, I can’t think, I …

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Apr 24

Can a Veteran go into Law Enforcement POST PTSD

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Military, Police and Fire PTSD Post Traumatic Stress

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Can a Veteran go into Law Enforcement after a PTSD Diagnosis? Law Enforcement’s View of Hiring Veterans with PTSD Introduction: An estimated 1-2 out of every 10 soldiers returning from combat in Iraq will be diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (National Center for PTSD, 2008). Many of these soldiers are self-conscious about the diagnosis. …

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Mar 08

The police supervisor and stress

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Police Supervisors, PTSD Symptoms and Stressors

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Many police managers experience health problems, both physiological and emotional, and have difficulty understanding the cause. As patrol officers, they might have believed that a promotion would alleviate the stress they faced every day. Soon after taking command, however, many find that they must contend with a variety of new stressors, in addition to the …

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Mar 08

Police STRESSORS

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PTSD Symptoms and Stressors

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Stress plays a part in the lives of everyone. Some stress is not only inevitable, it can be good. For example, the physical stress of “working out” improves your cardiovascular system, and feeling pressure that causes you to study harder for an exam can improve your score. Police stress, however, refers to the negative pressures …

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Mar 05

VA STUDY : Soldiers with PTSD More Likely to Experience Long-Term Psychological Effects

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Military, Police and Fire PTSD Post Traumatic Stress

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Combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms appear to be associated with longer-term physical (headache, tinnitus), emotional (irritability) and cognitive (diminished concentration or memory) symptoms, according to a report in the January issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Conversely, concussion/mild traumatic brain injuries (MTBI) do not appear to have long-term negative …

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