CopShock: Second Edition
Surviving Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
by Allen R. Kates, MFAW, BCECR
Author Information
Allen R. Kates, BCECR, MFAW, is a trauma expert and journalist whose contact with police officers in the United States and Canada spans more than 30 years.
Often specializing in police subjects, he has written television documentaries,
current affairs programs, screenplays, newspaper stories and magazine articles.
He is Board Certified in Emergency Crisis Response (BCECR) by the American
Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress, and has earned certificates in critical
incident stress debriefing and management, suicide intervention, PTSD therapy,
resiliency, crisis intervention and victimology.
He was trained in crisis intervention by the Pima County Attorney's Victim Witness program, and helped victims of crime cope with tragedies such as robberies, beatings, rapes and murders. In this capacity, he worked closely with police officers.
Three weeks after 9/11, he toured the devastation of the World Trade Center and gave an 8-hour seminar to Port Authority peer support officers. Allen has given seminars about PTSD, suicide, post-shooting trauma, psychological survival, and resiliency techniques to organizations such as the National Guard Bureau, the Arizona Department of Veterans Affairs, the Arizona Department of Corrections, the Association of Traumatic Stress Specialists, the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Janes' Police Conferences, the Sacramento Law Enforcement Chaplaincy, the Spokane, WA, Police Department, and the Southern Arizona Law Enforcement Training Center.
Kates is a member of the International Law Enforcement
Educators and Trainers Association (ILEETA) and the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation (ICISF).He has a Master of Fine Arts in Writing degree (MFAW), a journalism degree, and is a professional writing coach, book editor and ghostwriter who helps others succeed with their book manuscripts.
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