ABSTRACT
This chapter helps the therapist understand differences each officer-patient presents and ultimately provides a focus for intervention. Each presentation includes the officer-patient’s personality styles, traits, features, tendencies, behavior, cognitions, affect, and emotions. Change may take place through different means, but the one of interest is the process of grief and trauma therapy. Joint exploration of the present works back to the hedge stones of the traumatic past. The persistence of maladaptive behaviors is a serious problem. These behaviors would likely become extinguished if they were not consistently reinforced on a conscious and unconscious level. Millon refines the use of personality style as fundamentally “an ideal reference point to compare a person to, for conceptual and heuristic purposes”. Constant risk-taking examples in the public-service rescue, pursuit, and arrest role ranges from being the first at a scene, to off-duty incidents of rescue involvement without waiting for back up by on-duty personnel.
