BackgroundMany people confront potentially morally injurious experiences (PMIEs) in the
course of their work which can violate deeply held moral values or beliefs, putting them at …

Police face an increased risk of developing mental health problems, yet reliable estimates of
their psychological difficulties remain unknown. This systematic review and meta-analysis …

This descriptive study examined the top five most frequent and highly rated occupational
stressors from the Spielberger Police Stress Survey among 365 police officers enrolled in …

Police officers are both at risk of exposure to trauma and experiencing PTSD and are more
likely to come into contact with people with mental illness than community members. As a …

In the early spring of 2014, the first author was collecting data through a field research study
that was conducted during a police special forces tactical training session. In one of the …

Policing is a stressful occupation due to organizational and experiential stressors that can
have serious outcomes for officers. Although the aforementioned stressors in policing are …

It is well established that police work is highly stressful; however, a paucity of evidence limits
our knowledge and understanding of the factors that may lead to, compromise, and/or …

Responses to highly aversive or potentially traumatic events are typically defined in terms of
binary outcomes, most commonly the presence or absence of post-traumatic stress disorder …

Police officers are subjected, daily, to critical incidents and work-related stressors that
negatively impact nearly every aspect of their personal and professional lives. They have …

This study examined the relationship between killing or seriously injuring someone in the
line of duty and mental health symptoms in a sample of police officers (N= 400) who were …