The Guardian Mind: Identifying Resilience and Coping Factors from the Perspective of Police Officers
Chapter 2: Literature Review Outline
The question to explore in this research is the adverse impact of traumatic work on the mental health of a police officer (Kubiak, Krick, & Egloff, 2017). There is a need to provide tools, resources, and strategies in helping and defending all police officers from the adverse effects of high tension on the job. Stuart (2017) identified the law enforcement career as challenging and made these men and women a high risk for emotional and mental health issues. A lack of knowledge and realistic strategies to support police officers persists in contemporary society. Watson and Andrews (2018) suggested that police officers face a significant risk of exposure to multiple traumas during their careers, which may eventually lead to psychiatric problems for all of them. The concern for the mental well-being of a police officer has reached a national level, as stated in the 2015 Task Force on 21st Century Policing (2015), where the President suggested that the very police officers who protect us deserve to be safe too.
A police officer entrusted to serve and protect the society could be the same person that causes harm not just to himself but to others. When a police officer commits suicide, it has a significant rippling impact on the family, close friends, and the whole police force, according to Mishara and Martin (2012). A police officer may experience severe emotional and physical health problems from the continuous psychiatric effects of stressful incidents.
The Sub-topics to be Covered Below this (You can also suggest a few if you have)
2.1 Theories of Stress
2.1.1 Transactional Model of Stress
2.1.2 Selye’s (1956) General Adaptation Syndrome of stress
2.1.3 Selye and Lazarus Theory of Stress and Copying
2.1.4 Folkman & Lazarus’ (1984) Cognitive Appraisal Theory of stress
2.2