My Dad's a Hero...My Dad's a Cop - Hardcover

Gary Aumiller; Daniel Goldfarb

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0985198508 ISBN 13: 9780985198503

Publisher: Probity Press, 2013

Synopsis

This is a children's book about the work of a police officer and the variety of things that a cop does during his day. It follows two children whose father is a cop and deals with not only with what their daddy does during the day, but the psychological aspect of the job. It is uplifting and a good primer for a parent to talk to a child about the work being done by police officers. There is a five-page parent guide at the end for parents to understand how to use the book to teach their child. It culminates with My Dad's a Hero...My Dad's a Cop.

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About the Author

Dr. Gary Aumiller has appeared on over 140 talk shows as a police and forensic psychologist and author, has written over seventy articles on a variety of topics that have been published in both civilian and police publications, and author of a book called Keeping It Simple: Sorting Out What Really Matters In You Life.(1995) His second book was with Penguin/Putnam Imprint Plume, RED FLAGS!! How to Know When You re Dating a Loser, (1999) which teaches criminal profiling to women to avoid dating relationship losers. His third book, Walk Like a Chameleon: Animal Instincts that Control Your Relationships and Your Life, was released by Plume in 2001 and teaches the animal instincts in our lives. His books are published in 14 countries in 9 languages. He is twice past President and current Executive Director of the Society of Police and Criminal Psychology. Prior to that, he had served as an officer of the International Association of the Chiefs of Police. He has been chosen as the American Representative to the International Law Enforcement and Criminalistics Academy in Rome, Italy. Dr. Aumiller has spoken and consulted at over 400 corporations, hospitals, conventions, colleges, and police organizations around the world, and was a regular guest lecturer at the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Among his consulting arrangements are the FBI Behavioral Sciences Unit, FBI Hostage Rescue Team, DEA, and the Italian Polizia di Stato, Guardia di Finanza, the Direzione Investigativo Antimafioso (Italian anti-mafia police) and the Singapore Police Department. He has been a psychological consultant to the staff of numerous electronic and print media including the New York Times, CNN, NBC News, CNBC, Court TV, Good Morning America, Dateline NBC, National Public Radio, The Wall Street Journal, Newsday, the Associated Press, Reuters News Service, and a number of monthly magazines. He has worked in crisis and terrorist situations across the US, both World Trade Center attacks, the African Embassy Bombings, TWA Flight 800, postal shootings in NY and the Boston Area, he has also worked for the National Science Foundation in Antarctica. Dr. Aumiller was named the prestigious Premio Psyche Award winner in 2004 for the person who has contributed most to the field of Italian psychology. He has co-written the base articles establishing the proficiencies in police psychology, has gotten police psychology recognized by the American Psychological Association as a specialty, and has set up the first education programs in the profession. Outside the field of psychology, Dr. Aumiller has acted as a consultant on three police movies, and even played a leading role of a serial killer in a movie by Columbia Pictures, for which he won a best supporting actor award in a national film festival. Prior to his police psychology career, Dr. Aumiller performed as a stage actor in professional stage and theatrical touring companies, and performed in the NY City, Washington and Chicago opera companies. Dr. Aumiller was born and raised in Maryland. He attended college at the University of Notre Dame, and a master s and doctorate degree from Hofstra University in Clinical and School Psychology. He lives in East Northport, New York and co-owns a clinic that serves law enforcement and federal agents in the New York area.

Edition details

• Publisher: Probity Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0985198508
• ISBN 13: 9780985198503
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Franfou
• Number of pages: 40