Stress Management in Law Enforcement

The Acquired Resilience for Mastering Operational Response program has been developed using psychological skills training and key stress regulation techniques targeting improved performance, enhanced mental wellness, and the reduction of long-term cumulative PTSD. The foundation of the program focuses on self-awareness, teaching and training police officers and other law enforcement personnel the skills necessary to be more aware of their minds and bodies at any given moment in order to perform optimally in any situation they are in. Further, the ARMOR program includes evidence-based strategies aimed at helping officers regulate stressors throughout their careers, enhancing overall mental health and well-being.

The Stress Regulation and Resiliency Course (under the ARMOR Program) provides law enforcement (sworn and non-sworn) personnel the education, training, and tools necessary to regulate stress on command for a safe, long, and healthy career. The focus of this course is “Prevention” through the development and mastery of mental skills to build amore resilient and adaptive mindset, necessary for a career in law enforcement (including critical incident stress management).

Course participation and potential deliverables:

• Increase awareness of mental health and develop coping skills for long-term management of personal and work-related stressors
• Focus and concentrate with sharpness amongst distractions
• Improve job performance
• Learn to achieve an optimal state of activation depending on the situation
• Realize a heightened level of self-awareness
• Self-Regulate more effectively/efficiently in order to regulate the stress response and achieve optimal performance and sustain it through the use of biofeedback in class
• Be more resilient in high stress, high pressure situations, over longer periods of time
• Make better instinctive and intuitive decisions
• Enhance overall physical, mental and emotional wellness
• Reduce anger and frustration, regulate emotions with more ease
• Sleep with more ease and achieve a better work-life balance
• Improve communication at work and at home
• Reduce the effects of cumulative PTSD and burnout
• Gain greater insight into the road to suicide and learn ways to identify and intervene when necessary
• Develop long-term Stress Management Continued Care Plans for ongoing improved wellness
• Learn how to reduce the negative impact of critical incident stress and ways to manage the long-term impact of trauma exposure