Department of Family Studies & Gerontology, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, NS B3M 2J6, Canada.
School of Rehabilitation Therapy, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Apr 25;19(9):5224. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19095224.
The families of public safety personnel (PSP) face demands that are unique to these occupations. Nonstandard work, trauma exposure, and dangerous work environments affect both workers and the families who support them. This narrative review aims to identify the stressors that PSP families experience and the support and resources needed to enhance family resilience. Due to a lack of research on PSP families, this review is a necessary first step to summarizing and interpreting a diverse body of research. The studies included addressed structural and emotional work-family conflict with reference to PSP sectors. A framework from the military family resiliency literature interprets the findings. Factors influencing family functioning and the availability and accessibility of resources provide clues about the type of skills and supports that PSP families rely on. Meaning-making, collaboration, a sense of coherence, and communication were identified as themes associated with intrafamilial processes. Extrafamilial themes included public perceptions, a lack of recognition for the roles families fulfill, and the need for information and education. The results suggest that the vulnerability of PSP families is variable and extrafamilial resources in the form of formal and informal supports are necessary to enhance family resiliency.
公安人员的家庭成员面临着这些职业特有的需求。非标准工作、创伤暴露和危险的工作环境既影响工人，也影响支持他们的家庭。本叙述性综述旨在确定 PSP 家庭所经历的压力源，以及增强家庭适应力所需的支持和资源。由于缺乏对 PSP 家庭的研究，因此，这一综述是对多样化研究进行总结和解释的必要的第一步。所纳入的研究涉及 PSP 部门的结构和情感工作-家庭冲突。军事家庭适应力文献中的一个框架解释了这些发现。影响家庭功能的因素以及资源的可用性和可及性为 PSP 家庭所依赖的技能和支持类型提供了线索。意义构建、协作、一致性感和沟通被确定为与家庭内部过程相关的主题。家庭外部的主题包括公众看法、对家庭所扮演角色的认可不足，以及对信息和教育的需求。研究结果表明， PSP 家庭的脆弱性是可变的，需要以正式和非正式支持的形式提供家庭外部资源，以增强家庭适应力。
