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• Do you have PTSD or Complex-PTSD?

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  A segmented diagnosis is used for those who experience symptoms of complex traumatic events

• PTSD quiz: Find out if your symptoms qualify

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  This exclusive PTSD screening quiz can help determine if your symptoms are consistent with those of the diagnosis

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• Roundtable: 7 critical issues in corrections in 2018

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  From inmate mental healthcare to officer recruitment and retention, the corrections profession faced many challenges in 2018

• Combating recidivism in 2018 and other ongoing challenges in corrections

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  As 2018 winds down, it’s important to reflect on the progress made towards creating safer prison environments and, ultimately, safer communities

• Understanding limitations of the “fight or flight” response

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  Tactical training can and does help an officer anticipate and identify bodily responses to danger

• Treating depression with transcranial magnetic stimulation

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  It’s important to know that there are other treatment options available that can help restore a patient’s mental health

• Family counseling: How to keep bonds strong

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  Correctional officer families face unique stressors, which can be overcome with the help of a professional family counselor

• 9 questions you may have about medication for PTSD, anxiety or depression

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  Medication can be extremely effective in helping first responders recover and regain a healthy balance

• How children of officers can benefit from counseling

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  Both individual and group counseling sessions provide a welcoming space for children to discuss worries and share experiences unique to being in a law enforcement family

• Counseling & confidentiality: What you need to know

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  The first major step in starting counseling is to understand and trust the concept of confidentiality

• Emotional tools to build correctional officer resiliency

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  Officers must build an emotional tool belt to survive many of the troubling and traumatic experiences they are likely to encounter during their career

• Preventing suicide in corrections

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  With inadequate leadership one of the primary stressors for correctional officers, leaders must do more to help officers deal with stress and prevent suicide

• New study: PTSD symptoms at war-zone level among correctional staff

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  Correctional employees experience some of the highest rates of mental illness, sleep disorders and physical health issues of all U.S. workers

• 7 tips for supporting a spouse through critical incident stress

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  The support that can come from the correctional officer’s primary relationship can be especially impactful

• Beneath the Vest: First responder alcoholism

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  Officer Joe Peterson wrestled with alcoholism and the stresses of life as a police officer, a sometimes combustible combination

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