Mental disorders in firefighters following large-scale disaster

SL Wagner, N White, C Randall, C Regehr… - Disaster Medicine and …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Firefighting service is known to involve high rates of exposure to potentially traumatic
situations, and research on mental health in firefighting populations is of critical importance …

Benefits of digital mental health care interventions for correctional workers and other public safety personnel: a narrative review

E Moghimi, Y Knyahnytska, M Omrani, N Nikjoo… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Chronic exposure to stressors and potentially psychologically traumatic events contributes to
the high prevalence of mental health disorders in correctional workers (CWs) and other …

Improving the mental health of correctional workers: Perspectives from the field

MS Johnston, R Ricciardelli… - Criminal Justice and …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Researchers illuminate the mental health plight of correctional workers by demonstrating a
high prevalence of mental health disorders among the group. Yet, structural barriers persist …

Prisons and mental health: Violence, organizational support, and the effects of correctional work

AE Lerman, J Harney, M Sadin - Criminal justice and …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Correctional workers have a high likelihood of exposure to violence in the workplace.
However, empirical literature has largely neglected the mental health consequences of …

Provincial correctional service workers: The prevalence of mental disorders

RN Carleton, R Ricciardelli, T Taillieu… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Correctional service employees in Ontario, Canada (n= 1487) began an online survey
available from 2017 to 2018 designed to assess the prevalence and correlates of mental …

“We keep the nightmares in their cages”: Correctional culture, identity, and the warped badge of honor

EM Higgins, J Smith, K Swartz - Criminology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Correctional scholarship has demonstrated concern over the dehumanizing implications of
the carceral state for incarcerated people. This concern has been paralleled by an interest in …

Impact of workplace safety on well-being: the mediating role of thriving at work

N Okros, D Virga - Personnel Review, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose Based on the socially embedded model of thriving at work and using the
conservation of resources and job demands-resources theories, this study aims to examine …

Operational and organisational stressors in community correctional work: Insights from probation and parole officers in Ontario, Canada

M Norman, R Ricciardelli - Probation Journal, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
In the current article, we investigate the occupational stressors parole and probation officers
working in provincial correctional services in Ontario, Canada experience. We examine four …

Assessing relative stressors and mental disorders among Canadian provincial correctional workers

K Konyk, R Ricciardelli, T Taillieu, TO Afifi… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
In the current study, we quantified the mean stress levels of 43 occupational stressors for
868 Correctional Workers (CWs) and analyzed the relationships between occupational …

Just another day's work: The nexus between workplace experiences and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in jail settings

JM Ellison, CM Cain, LA Jaegers - Journal of Criminal Justice, 2022 - Elsevier
Purpose Correctional officers experience more workplace violence and victimization than
individuals in comparable public service occupations, and such experiences may lead to …