Building Effective Peer Support Teams: A Guide to Creating Resilient First Responders

Written by a cop turned public safety psychologist, Building Effective Peer Support Teams is the definitive how-to guide to building and maintaining a highly effective first responder peer support team. The book offers concrete strategies, policies, and resources based on the author's decades of combined experience and research as a peer team member and public safety psychologist. Peer team members, administrators, chaplains, and first responder clinicians will come away from this book with the skills they need to build, improve, and maintain a robust peer support team and boost the resilience of their agency’s first responders and families.

Stephanie M. Conn, PhD, ABPP, is a former police officer, as well as the daughter and wife of police officers, and currently works as a psychologist in her private practice, First Responder Psychology. She is board certified in police and public safety psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology.