UID:
almafu_9961519195002883
Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 230 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-4473-6192-X
Content:
How does it feel to be a police officer? Jessica Miller uses the most recent neuroscience and real-life examples to explore risks to individual resilience. A compulsory read for anyone with an interest in policing, the book offers practical resilience techniques and policy recommendations for police officers facing crime in a post-COVID world.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Sep 2022).
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Front Cover -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of figures and tables -- Glossary -- About the author -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Why the need to be resilient? How it feels to be a police officer in the UK and why -- Introduction -- The times we are in -- Changing crimes and changing minds -- What officers and staff tell us themselves -- How neuroscience gives a voice to the policing brain -- What's so different for policing? -- Conclusion -- Chapter 1 snapshot -- Checklist -- 2 Risks to resilience in operational policing -- Introduction -- Crossing the thin blue line -- Survival of the fittest -- States of the policing mind -- Contraction and fragmentation -- Threat perception -- Trauma -- Lack of trust -- Cynicism -- The C-word - and getting tired of it -- Isolation -- Lack of talking -- The body -- Powerlessness or reduced self-efficacy beliefs -- Deferment of happiness -- Who do we think we are? -- Chapter 2 snapshot -- Checklist -- 3 What might be happening in the brain? Introducing simple neuroscience for policing -- Introduction -- Why is understanding the brain so useful? -- What is a brain? -- The basics: your evolutionary brain -- Brain function for police resilience -- Trauma exposure -- The negativity bias -- Talking and not talking -- Modes and zones of thinking in the brain -- Defaulting to police mode -- Seeing red and going green -- Being and doing -- The body-brain connection -- Mirror neurons -- The vagus nerve -- The chemical messengers we could call feelings -- What now? Your turn -- Chapter 3 snapshot -- Checklist -- 4 Turning science into action: resilience practices for policing -- Introduction -- The science is nice, but is this for me? -- So, how do the techniques work? -- Getting started -- Your personal toolkit: PPE for the brain3.
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A summary of the techniques -- Techniques -- Daily techniques -- Starting your day -- Morning mindset -- During your day -- Checking in -- Body sweep -- Breathing space -- Eye-gaze expansion -- Tips -- At the end of your day -- Sleep debrief -- Attitude of gratitude -- Little wins and giggles -- Tips -- Mastering threat perception -- Sensing threat but needing to get the better of it? -- 'What's for lunch?' -- F.E.A.R. vs T.H.R.E.A.T -- Fear face-off -- Feeling disproportionately anxious about a harmless interaction? (fear in interpersonal interaction):14 how to imagine life from someone else's disadvantage -- From F-word to C-bomb -- When the day's events are a heavy weight to carry home -- create clear boundaries between job and not-job -- Boots-at-the-door -- Constructing a personal story in your mind about an incident?: acknowledging the discomfort and neutralising the narrative in your head -- Labelling 'there is…' -- Getting creative (bit weird) -- Tips -- Is your body holding tension and it's starting to be uncomfortable?: reset your body, feel accomplished, at ease and present in the here and now -- Shake it out -- Tips -- Feeling your feet -- Tips -- Knowing when to stand down -- Is your stress response lingering and not subsiding after an incident? -- Sit-back-and-sigh -- Tip -- Depersonalising experiences -- Feeling like you're contracting around an experience and getting way too involved? -- 'Not me': regain your agency and independence -- Body boundaries: stand on your own two feet, separate from but present with what is going on -- Sideways shifting: being on an even keel and sensing the broader picture of what is going on around you -- Space-making: spaciousness, sensing the bigger picture and open-mindedness -- Horizon jumping -- The baked bean tin -- Atoms in anatomy.
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'There are narwhals': freedom to think about things other than the immediate (OK, bear with us!) -- Using our bodies to tune in to others -- Not feeling quite in sync with someone?: how to feel more intuitively informed of others' intentions in order to respond -- 'What goes on in vagus, stays in vagus': stimulating the vagus nerve to feel more intuitively informed of others' intentions in order to respond -- 'Mirror, mirror': reading facial expressions to feel more intuitively informed of others' intentions in order to respond -- Tip -- Smart compassion -- When others' distress is just too much to tolerate -- 'Watching the window:' how to gain control over how much to take on -- 'The wishing well': trying to fix something that can't be fixed? -- Tip -- Feeling burned out and invisible? -- The flight mask: resource yourself to stand strong -- Tip -- Getting perspective: putting incidents in their time and place so we can move on -- Mapping -- The satellite -- The drone -- The witness -- Timelines -- Dawn to dusk -- Buzz back and fly forward -- The time traveller -- Tips -- Being objective -- Feeling disproportionately negative about an incident? Take the sting out -- The good, the bad and the boring -- Tip -- Bossing the mind -- For when mind wandering and getting lost in thought kinda hurts: get in command and control of your thoughts -- Spotting the default -- Priming the brain -- Getting your eyes in -- Tactical filtering -- Tip -- Body prep -- 'You got this' -- Obsessing, ruminating or fixating on trying to figure something out? Find a sense of ease with what is, reaffirming what you can do and what you do know -- Befriending 'don't know' -- Permission to lighten up -- Is feeling negativity creeping up on you? Be savvy, intervene and activate your resilience -- RAIN: Recognise, Accept, Investigate and Non-identification -- Tip.
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Is a moment of healthy stress taking on a very slight whiff of panic? Learn how to regroup, refocus and resume -- STOP: Stop, Take a breath, Observe, Proceed -- Making a bad thing worse in your mind? Just let something be a bit 'yuk' -- The second punch -- For when there is a flicker of something positive: feel resourced, inspired, confident and grateful, without losing your edge -- HEAL: Have, Enrich, Absorb and Link -- Tip -- Feeling a bit like you're stuck in Ground Hog Day? Life a bit same-y? -- The hand swap -- Feeling a bit 'meh'? A bit distant from others? Generate some light relief and a sense of connection with those who 'get you' -- 'S' funny…' -- Tip -- Tip -- Tip -- How to get the most out of the techniques -- Stop overdoing -- Start surveillance -- Get your body on board -- Make time -- Train up -- Karma police -- Chapter 4 snapshot -- Checklist -- 5 What now? The big step change -- What we know about the 'policing brain' -- 'The only thing to fear is fear itself': getting real with threat perception -- Responsibility in forces -- Behavioural change in forces -- Being a human leader -- Being a whole human -- It's happening -- Quick practical wins -- Refresh induction -- Introduce trauma impact monitoring -- Enhance communications -- Widen wellbeing workflow -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 snapshot -- Checklist -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Miller, Jessica K. The Policing Mind Bristol : Policy Press,c2022 ISBN 9781447361909
Language:
English
DOI:
10.56687/9781447361923
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781447361923/type/BOOK
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