Expanded Edition Includes Advances in Resilience to Meet Current Demands
Strengthen Your Mental Armor
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Stephanie has made a major and unique contribution to the field of public safety wellness. She not only provides a well referenced scholarly work, she has drawn on her unique lived experiences across several life roles. Her clinical experience as a respected veteran police psychologist, blending with this background, provides the reader with a valuable resource at multiple levels.
Kevin M. Gilmartin, Ph.D. Author of Emotional Survival for Law Enforcement.
Dr. Conn set the bar for the study of resiliency in law enforcement with her first edition, and this newly updated, expanded edition impressively raises that bar. Dr. Conn’s law enforcement experience, combined with her expertise in police psychology sets her work as the model for the field. Officers, agency executives, the public, and police clinicians can all gain valuable insight from this highly recommended book.
Thomas Coghlan, PsyD, NYPD Det. (retired), Owner, Blue Line Psychological Services, PLLC
The second edition of Dr. Conn's valuable guide to strengthening resilience for first responders, their families, police administrators, and civilian employees is chock-full of practical new ideas about coping with trauma, moral injury, PTSD, depression, organizational betrayal, and societal turmoil. She writes in a straightforward way infused with empathy and understanding that comes from her experience as a first responder.
Ellen Kirschman, PhD, author of I Love a Cop: What Police Families Need to Know, I Love a Fire Fighter: What the Family Needs to Know, and Counseling Cops: What Clinicians Need to Know (with Mark Kamena and Joel Fay).
Increasing Resilience in Police & Emergency Personnel
The Book
Written in 2025, Increasing Resilience in Police & Emergency Personnel. Strengthening Your Mental Armor, is an expansion from the first edition which includes strategies for current stressors. Standing on the shoulders of giants, Stephanie applies evidence-based recommendations that are doable in the first responder world. Stephanie's per
Written in 2025, Increasing Resilience in Police & Emergency Personnel. Strengthening Your Mental Armor, is an expansion from the first edition which includes strategies for current stressors. Standing on the shoulders of giants, Stephanie applies evidence-based recommendations that are doable in the first responder world. Stephanie's personal and professional experience continue to influence her view of resilience. It was important to her to help others she would never meet. After writing a police mental health column for years, she decided that it might be helpful to put it all together in one place for first responders to access, as needed. The book addresses challenges through 4 lenses- the line officer, dispatcher/call-taker, police administrator, and family member. Feedback supports that the strategies offered in this book equally apply to other first responder professions.
The Author
Stephanie is a former police officer, dispatcher, and victim service worker across 15 years. She left first responder work to offer counseling services to first responders as a psychologist. She is also the wife and daughter of police officers given her additional experience to draw from to write this book. Stephanie has studied and writt
Stephanie is a former police officer, dispatcher, and victim service worker across 15 years. She left first responder work to offer counseling services to first responders as a psychologist. She is also the wife and daughter of police officers given her additional experience to draw from to write this book. Stephanie has studied and written about resilience for more than 20 years. Standing "on the shoulders of giants", Stephanie has included concrete strategies from resilience and first responder experts around the world. This includes the first responders she interviewed in her research and what she learned/ continues to learn from her first responder clients/ agencies.