ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book offers an insider perspective on what police and public safety officers experience on the job. It is designed to give the clinician-scientist an in-depth understanding of the complex and hidden trauma and loss experienced by public safety officers. The book offers a viewpoint of public safety that uses the Scientific Practitioner Model. It expands the Ecological-Ethological Existential Analysis of Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) into the context of personality styles with an emphasis on resilience—without ignoring the pathological aspects of loss that often envelop officer-patient trauma syndromes. The book discusses why, where, how, and when the clinician can intervene effectively by understanding and discriminating one police personality style from the other. The complexity and diversity in styles of officers presented rests on a firm clinical and empirical foundation.
