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  • Title: Line-of-duty death: psychological treatment of traumatic bereavement in law enforcement.
    Author: Miller L.
    Journal: Int J Emerg Ment Health; 2007; 9(1):13-23. PubMed ID: 17523372.
    Abstract:
    A line-of-duty death (LODD) strikingly brings home the risk and vulnerability of all law enforcement officers and affects the officer's peers, the entire department, the wider police community, and the officer's family. This article will place LODD in the context of general bereavement psychology, as well as describe some of its unique features. A variety of supportive and psychotherapeutic measures will be offered for helping peer and family survivors cope with this type of tragedy. This is one important area where police psychologists and community mental health clinicians can be of tremendous service in applying their specialized training in trauma therapy and grief counseling to the special needs of law enforcement and emergency services.
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