- Title
- The impact of growth focused psychoeducation on posttraumatic growth in police officers
- Creator
- Metelerkamp, Toni
- Resource Type
- thesis
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- Professional Doctorate - Doctor of Clinical and Health Psychology (DCHP)
- Description
- This study investigated whether stress related growth (SRG) could be primed in traumatised police officers, and explored the predictors of SRG in police officers using the predictors documented in non-police populations. Fifty-nine officers completed self-report questionnaires and randomly received either no priming, verbal or verbal plus written SRG priming. Twelve weeks later SRG was measured. Results indicated higher SRG following verbal plus written priming, F (2, 56) = 12.61, p < .001, with no significant difference between verbal and no priming, p = .101. Contrary to expectations, none of the factors typically predictive of SRG contributed to the SRG reported by these police officers. This study demonstrates a brief, low cost intervention can prime SRG in police officers and highlights the importance of police specific studies.
- Subject
- posttraumatic stress; police; stress related growth; coping
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1041593
- Identifier
- uon:13933
- Rights
- Copyright 2014 Toni Metelerkamp
- Language
- eng
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