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Mindfulness‐based training leads to improved health for law enforcement
Author(s) -
Sutton Halley
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
campus security report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1945-6247
pISSN - 1551-2800
DOI - 10.1002/casr.30453
Subject(s) - mindfulness , law enforcement , meditation , psychology , training (meteorology) , coping (psychology) , psychological resilience , applied psychology , enforcement , psychotherapist , medical education , social psychology , clinical psychology , political science , law , medicine , philosophy , physics , theology , meteorology
Meditation and mindfulness training may play a significant role in reducing chronic stress and providing coping tools for the daily rigors police officers and law enforcement officials face, according to a study from the Pacific University School of Graduate Psychology. The research was led by professors Mike Christopher and Matthew Hunsinger, who compared a control group of officers who underwent no meditation and mindfulness‐based resilience training with a group of local officers who underwent training for eight weeks. Findings were published in the June 2018 issue of Psychiatry Research .