Trish Evers

Supervisors: James Ogloff, Jeff Pfeifer

Rational & Aims:

• Correctional officers (COs) often experience a complex and difficult work environment, with daily exposure occupational, organisational and personal challenges, together resulting in chronic, high levels of stress.
• Prolonged exposure to such stress leads to compromised well-being, increased physical health risks, and poorer mental health outcomes. The adverse impacts of these stressors highlight the importance of interventions that target wellness and resilience-building specific to COs.
• This research project aims to address officer wellbeing by implementing a targeted intervention and evaluating its efficacy in improving and maintaining officer wellbeing.

Methodology:

Approximately 450 correctional officers at will be invited to take part in a brief, targeted psycho-educational intervention.  Pre-, post- and delayed-post data will be collected to measure the effectiveness of the intervention in improving well-being outcomes.