"[The authors] offer practical advice to help prevent emergency responders from falling prey to work-related stressors; and they provide emergency medical, fire, and police departments the tools needed to build and strengthen a safety net to not only catch responders who fall, but to prevent them and their departments from sustaining serious permanent injury."--Merginet.com
"A hint at the wisdom of this ambitious book can be found on its opening page, in which the authors dedicate their work 'to those important individuals in our lives who have taught us about resilience, grace and gratitude.'...What sets this book apart...is its understanding of the contextual nature of trauma...Regehr and Bober do an excellent job of defining and expanding on the conventional views of occupational stress and trauma theory."--
The Lancet"...the most comprehensive book written on the subject of trauma among emergency personnel. This book is full of gems in understanding rescuers' culture...written so we are in a better position to help these men and women do their job without sacrificing their mental well-being."--
Social Work Today"A readable, practical, well-organized and well-researched guide. It is comprehensive in scope and should be mandatory reading for all mental health professionals and peer supporters who provide services to emergency responders." -- Ellen Kirschman, Ph.D., author of
I Love a Cop: What Police Families Need to Know and I Love a Fire Fighter: What the Family Needs to Know"Based on Regehr and Bober's original research and combined 40 years of clinical experience in emergency service organizations,
In the Line of Fire adeptly addresses the interpersonal, organisational and societal factors affecting police, firefighters, paramedics and other first-responders during the course of their daily work. The book is clearly articulated, well researched and coherently organised.In the Line of Fire is suitable for a wide audience, including social workers, other mental health professionals, emergency workers, their family members and administrators who provide the structural support for their life-saving efforts. This book can also serve as an excellent introductory social work text on disaster work.Regehr and Bober are to be commended for their groundbreaking contribution to the trauma literature."--Carol Tosone,
International Journal of Social Welfare"...concise and compelling...The combined use of qualitative (personal testimony) and quantitative (incidence and prevalence) data makes this book eminently powerful and readable....There is something of value for everyone in this book: the emergency professional, family members of those who work in emergency services, and managers and administrators of emergency services organizations." -- Elizabeth M. Plionis, Ph.D., Associate Professor Emeritus, National Catholic School of Social Service, in
Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention"
In the Line of Fire is written by two professionals who have an impressive amount of experience working with front-line emergency services in Canada....They use case histories to bring to life the stressful events that emergency staff experience and refer to research evidence that convincingly builds a model that they refer to as a 'trajectory towards health or illness.' This gives us encouragement that many parts of a range of interventions may nudge those exposed to traumatic events towards healthy coping." -- Anna Higgitt, Mental Health Branch of the Department of Health, UK, in the
British Journal of Psychiatry