Bouncing Back from Trauma: The Essential Step-by-Step Guide for Police Readiness - Softcover

Gallo PhD, Frank J.

9781546873204: Bouncing Back from Trauma: The Essential Step-by-Step Guide for Police Readiness

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ISBN 10: 1546873201 ISBN 13: 9781546873204

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

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"Help for taking back the life you want to live after trauma."

Exposure to traumatic events is a natural part of police work. Building individual capacity through increased psychological flexibility before and after trauma exposure is critical to sustaining a mission-ready police force.

Bouncing Back from Trauma is the essential step-by-step guide to help police officers recover from trauma, grow, and live life with more purpose and vitality. In this easy-to-follow self-help approach, you’ll feel empowered to take charge of your well-being, learn to overcome ineffective and self-defeating patterns of behavior, re-engage with who and what’s important to you, and be more likely to remain employed and continue to serve your community.

Other uniformed service professionals who have experienced trauma can use this book: military service members, veterans, firefighters, and rescue workers (paramedics and emergency medical technicians). Other trauma workers, such as emergency room nurses, doctors, mental health professionals, and disaster relief workers, can also use it. This book can help family members, friends, and mental health professionals provide a supportive environment in which you can recover.

In Bouncing Back from Trauma, clinical psychologist and retired police officer, Frank Gallo, brings you through training that features specific exercises, metaphors, stories, and language that simply work because they rest on the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and the ACT Matrix. This book is the first ACT self-help workbook for police officers and other uniformed service professionals recovering from traumatic stress. It will give you the tools to live more fully, feeling greater purpose at work and everywhere else in life.

The exercises and worksheets inside this book and more resources are available at bluelifeacademy.com.

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About the Author

Frank J. Gallo, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist, owner of Blue Life Behavioral Health, and creator of the Blue Life Academy and Blue Life Coach app.

Since 2009, Dr. Gallo has been working with uniformed service professionals struggling with all sorts of behavioral health conditions and problems getting in the way of valued living and peak performance at work, home, or wherever they are in life. As an experienced healthcare administrator and senior leader, Dr. Gallo has designed and implemented specialized and dedicated trauma and addiction treatment programs for uniformed service professionals in residential, partial hospital, intensive outpatient, and outpatient treatment settings. He served as a civilian psychologist in the United States Air Force, directing the psychological health program at the Massachusetts Air National Guard 104th Fighter Wing.

Besides Dr. Gallo's clinical experience, he is a retired Rhode Island, municipal police officer. His police experience included uniformed patrol, community policing, detectives, training division, and the special reaction team, using specialized tactics and weapons to resolve high-threat situations.

Dr. Gallo was also a tenured Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Western New England University, where he taught a range of courses in policing, criminal behavior, and research methods. He left his academic position to dedicate his work full-time to professional psychology in uniformed service settings.

Dr. Gallo is the author of numerous articles in police psychology and police training manuals. He's provided recruit and in-service training for uniformed service professionals. He has presented and consulted internationally on policing and the use of force and nationally on acceptance and commitment therapy and training in uniformed service and healthcare settings.

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