Psychological Stress in the Police Force

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In keeping with what he characterizes as his psychodynamic approach to police work, Phillip Bonifacio, in his work, "The Psychological Effects of Police Work," maintains that stress among officers is not merely a response to job-related conditions, but is an inevitable consequence of unconscious factors that draw men to police work in the first place. This report takes a look at some of Bonifacio's conclusions in terms of summary before going on to compare them with other existing sources of information.

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"As has already been noted, Bonifacio does not regard job-related stressors as sufficient in themselves to be responsible for such pathology, which is instead seen by him as a result of the psychological conflicts, which find expression in the desire to enter police work in the first place. Thus, Bonifacio cites the literature as providing support for the view that "the evidence for the existence of special stressors in police work is inconclusive," and that "the hypothesis that police work is more stressful than all other occupations is also not supported.""

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