Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in UK Law
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: Offender, Victim and Colleague as Survivors
A series of recent major disasters — Piper Alpha, Lockerbie, Hillsborough — has obliged Health and Social Services to recognise the psycho-social needs of survivors and relatives. Some victims of t...
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Post traumatic stress disorder in incarcerated populations: current clinical considerations and recommendations
Purpose: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may have a detrimental impact on the individual’s ability to benefit from rehabilitative prison-based programmes, and studies have also found that the...
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The prevalence of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder among internally displaced persons in Maiduguri, Nigeria
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to assess the prevalence of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Maiduguri. Design/methodology/ap...
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Police officers and post-traumatic stress disorder: Discussing the deficit in research, identification and prevention in England and Wales
This article will review available literature regarding post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) within policing in England and Wales, with a particular focus on its early identification and preventio...
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Trauma and post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in a high secure forensic learning disability population: future directions for practice
Literature on trauma and post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has neglected the needs of people with intellectual disability, particularly those in forensic settings. The National Centre for High ...
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Biopsychosociocultural Perspective on ‘Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom’ Women Veterans as Civilian Police Officers: Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Challenges
Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) veterans constitute a large portion of police officer recruits. Women applicants present with similar gender-specific health-care practi...
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Biopsychosociocultural Perspective on ‘Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom’ Women Veterans as Civilian Police Officers: Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Challenges
Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) veterans constitute a large portion of police officer recruits. Women applicants present with similar gender-specific health-care practi...
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‘Getting on with the job’: A systematised literature review of secondary trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in policing within the United Kingdom (UK)
The aim of this review is to identify and critically examine existing research relating to secondary trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) within UK police officers. A systematised liter...
- Book Review: Cognitive-Behavioural Therapies for Trauma. Edited by Victoria Follette, Josef Ruzek and Francis Abueg. The Guilford Press: New York & London. pp. 431. IBSN 1572304006, Date; £32.50.; Group Treatments for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Edited by Bruce H. Young and Dudley D. Blake. Brunner / Mazel of the Taylor & Francis Group; Philadelphia. 1999. pp. 237. Date, ISBN 0-87630-983-X. £24.95
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The development of a UK police traumatic events checklist
One in five UK police officers suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, yet there is no gold standard measure of trauma exposure available. This study ......... One in five UK police officers suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or Complex ......
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