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University of Toronto

Understanding and Managing the Stresses of Police Work

Policing has always been psychological challenging. On any given shift police officers may encounter a range of psychological challenges including domestic violence, interacting with people experiencing mental health issues, violent crime, even attending the aftermath of horrible accidents. The long exhausting shifts can also result in stressful person interactions within one’s personal life. The presence of COVID and political issues related to instances of over-policing have increased these stresses even more. This course has two goals. First, we want to inform officers how their stress system works and why they sometimes feel as they do. With this as a foundation we then describe some strategies officers can use to manage this system, giving themselves much needed breaks from the stress response and overall empowering them with a greater sense of control over how their bodies react to stress.

Status: Active Listening
Status: Stress Management
BeginnerCourse3 hours

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KC

Reviewed Oct 5, 2020

Really easy to follow and pleasant to watch - simplifying how to manage situations for your own and other benefit. Thank you for taking time to put this together. Now I need to practice x

SR

Reviewed May 7, 2021

I really enjoyed this course. I thought the Instructor was very knowledgeable and his course is very helpful. I tried his techniques out and I will continue to.

RH

Reviewed Apr 3, 2023

An interesting and very useful course especially to those people who are working in a stressful environment.. Thank you very much..

CC

Reviewed Jul 13, 2022

This is somewhat good as it helps people to have and build better relationships with the police it starts to open up trust for some

CC

Reviewed Mar 31, 2021

civilian, but these practices can be applied by anyone. Simplifies the practices to make them useful.

MM

Reviewed Nov 8, 2022

I LIKE THE COURSE AS A POLICE OFFICER AND AN INSTRUCTOR OF POLICE PEACEKEEPERS, THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO ME ESPECIALLY IN FACILITATING STRES MANAGEMENT

ED

Reviewed Jan 4, 2021

Wonderful course in breaking down all the pressures and stresses Police go through on a day to day basis

I

Reviewed Mar 9, 2021

I thank you for this course. It has helped me a lot in understanding police officers. I do Bible lectures with them and this is an additional understanding. God bless you, sir!

BD

Reviewed Dec 26, 2020

Another great course by Steve Joordens, informative, and easy to follow. I highly recommend this to anyone interested in a future career as a police officer.

WB

Reviewed Apr 22, 2022

​I've been in the militery, local, State and federal law enforcement Since i grauduated from high school totaling over 40 years of service to our country. I truly love the work best profesion ever!

CM

Reviewed Jan 3, 2022

A​mazing content, even better prof. I will be keeping an eye out for more courses he teaches! I cannot praise how easy he is to listen to, or how knowledgable he is, enough.

YM

Reviewed Oct 9, 2021

Steve is amazing. He talks calmly and clearly which made it easy for me to learn the course. Thank you Steve.

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