Baywood Publishing Co.
Titles appearing in SciTech Book News — September 2007
Working with traumatized police officer-patients; a clinician's guide to complex PTSD syndromes in public safety professionals.
Rudofossi, Daniel M. (Death, value, and meaning series)
Baywood Publishing Co., ©2007 244 p. $46.95 RC552
0-89503-365-8
Practitioner Rudofossi (also psychology, New York U.), puts his years as a beat cop to good use in his assessment of what can happen psychologically to those in public service, and offers inside information to professionals and students. He is convinced a simple diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder is not enough and proposes a new therapeutic regimen that requires cultural competence on the part of the therapist, that culture being police work. He shows how to assess and treat using eco-ethological existential analytic methods within that cultural competence, which he asserts is the only way to achieve any degree of true healing in what is, in reality, an unhealable culture. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
