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157 I Love a Cop With Bestselling Author and Police Psychologist, The 'Cop Doc' Dr. Ellen Kirschman (Part Two)
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Welcome back everybody to the conclusion of my interview with the “Cop Doc” Dr. Ellen Kirschman.
For over four decades, Dr. Ellen Kirschman's specialty has been treating first responders, cops, firefighters, and their families who are suffering with work-related traumatic stress.
Dr. Kirschman is also an award-winning and best-selling author of fiction and non-fiction. She is best known for the gold standard book for cops and their families, “I Love a Cop: What Police Families Need to Know” along with “Counseling Cops: What Clinicians Need to Know” and “I Love a Fire Fighter: What the Family Needs to Know.”
Dr. Kirschman is also the author of her very successful crime series, The Dot Meyerhoff Mystery Series, where she blends her real-life stories with cops into fiction.
In today’s episode we discuss:
· Dr. Kirschman winning over a room full of cops.
- The book “I Love a Cop” and the solutions it offers to real life cop problems.
· Soul woundings.
· PTSD and can it be ‘cured?’
· How cops can smell a phony a mile away.
· Organizational stress and what can be done about it.
· Police suicide and what to look for in a cop on the edge to get them help.
· Retirement, it’s now ‘Safe to Fall Down.’
Visit Dr. Kirschman's website to learn more about her and her books!
Check out Field Training (Brew City Blues Book 1)!!
Enjoy the Cops and Writers book series.
Please visit the Cops and Writers website.
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