Secondary traumatic stress among police officers - the relationship with personality and ruminations.
Nina Ogińska-BulikGrzegorz BąkPaulina MichalskaPublished in: Current issues in personality psychology (2022)
Although the police officers working with trauma victims revealed low levels of STS symptoms, it is nevertheless advisable to ameliorate, if not prevent, them. Interventions should aim to expand the competencies in coping with trauma, including reducing the tendency to ruminate about the traumatic events experienced by clients.