Traumatic Stress: An Occupational Hazard

Abstract

Describes the nature, causes and incidence of stress in the Metropolitan Police and the development of the welfare service into a welfare and counselling service. The service is proactive and it is used by management and families as well as key individual officers who suffer the adverse effects of traumatic incidents.

Citation

Rivers, K. (1993), "Traumatic Stress: An Occupational Hazard", Employee Counselling Today, Vol. 5 No. 1, pp. 4-6. https://doi.org/10.1108/13665629310033237