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.

eBook - ePub
Building Effective Peer Support Teams
A Guide to Creating Resilient First Responders
- 172 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Building Effective Peer Support Teams
A Guide to Creating Resilient First Responders
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Endorsements Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- About the Author
- 1 Why First Responder Agencies Need Peer Support
- 2 Critical Incident Stress Management and/or Peer Team Models
- 3 Building an Effective Team
- 4 Being an Effective Team in Critical Incidents: How Can I Help?
- 5 Being an Effective Team in Peer Support: How Can I Help?
- 6 Navigating Landmines: Discipline, Reportable Events, Dual Relationships, and More (Oh My!)
- 7 Effective Peer Communication Skills
- 8 Maintaining an Effective Team
- 9 Specialized Teams
- 10 Interagency Peer Support
- Index
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