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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 .

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