PTSD Short Film Staring Sam Jaeger (who also stars in Parenthood, American Sniper and Inherent Vice) wrote, directed and starred in it.
Category: Police and Combat Injury Types
Police Responses to Officer-Involved Shootings
Police Responses to Officer-Involved Shootings What goes through police officers’ minds when they are involved in shootings? How does facing deadly force affect what they see, hear, and feel? Prior research has found that many officers involved in shootings suffer from “postshooting trauma”—a form of posttraumatic stress disorder that may include guilt, depression, and even …
New Findings on PTSD and Brain Activity
New Findings on PTSD and Brain Activity Researchers have discovered a correlation between increased activity among brain circuits and flashbacks among individuals with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). University of Minnesota investigators learned that an increased circuit activity in the right side of the brain is associated with the debilitating, involuntary flashbacks that often characterized …
Police unions push for medical coverage of PTSD
DENVER — Police unions across the U.S. are pushing for officers to be able to collect workers’ compensation benefits if they suffer post-traumatic stress disorder, whether they got it from the general stress of police work or from responding to a deadly shooting rampage. “I can’t imagine a department in the United States without officers …
Police, Fire, Military Concussions, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and PTSD
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, …
City policy does not recognize PTSD police officer’s psychological injury
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 …
FREE WEBINAR for “Surviving Your Spouses’s PTSD”
FREE WEBINAR Tue & Thur 7:30 E.S.T. - Sterling will be hosting with a limited number of web participants who wish for Q&A;'s related to his book "Surviving Your Spouses PTSD". Although having the book will be extremely helpful in following the discussion, purchase is not required. Limited spaces.
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POLICE IN THE NEWS!
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- America needs more women leaders
- If you keep your head where your feet are, you can’t do everything, but you can do anything
- Ladies, as you claim your seat at the leadership table, wear your Ruby Woo with pride
- Video released after 7 Va. deputies charged with second-degree murder over in-custody death
- Man reunited with Fla. deputy who saved his life by applying tourniquet to his leg
- Wash. LEOs, families benefit from new health and wellness app
- 'I hate pigs': Bodycam video shows man charging at Calif. LEOs with metal pole during traffic stop
- Wash. deputy critically wounded in shooting while serving eviction notice
- How digital field notes can help officers de-escalate situations
