Promoting Wellness and Resiliency in Correctional Officers (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Smith, Hayden P.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents universal themes that impact the safety, wellbeing, and resiliency of correctional officers, along with positive outcomes related to evidence based programs that maximize health in the correctional workplace. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal Criminal Justice Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000821475
• Artikelnr.: 66386006

Autorenporträt

Hayden P. Smith is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of South Carolina. His principal focus of study is the intersection of the criminal justice and public health systems. This includes self-injurious and suicide behaviors in incarcerated populations, the physical and mental health needs of incarcerated populations, best practices for inmate reentry and reintegration, jail diversion, and supporting safety, wellbeing, and resiliency in correctional staff. Dr. Smith has expertise in program evaluation and policy analysis, and he has worked with numerous correctional and health systems. Dr. Smith's previous publications have appeared in Justice Quarterly, Crime & Delinquency, and Criminal Justice & Behavior.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Exploring organizational risk factors for health &
wellness problems in correctional officers 3. Stress doesn't kill us, it's
our reaction: exploring the relationship between coping mechanisms and
correctional officer PTSD 4. Clarifying the role of officer coping on
turnover in corrections 5. Barriers to help-seeking among correction
officers: examining the influence of institutional culture and structure 6.
Job demands, organizational justice, and emotional exhaustion in prison
officers 7. AMStrength program in Canadian federal correctional services:
correctional officers' views and interpretations 8. A comparative
perspective on officer wellness: American reflections from Norwegian
prisons