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""Beyond the Call: A First Responder's Guide to Unbreakable Well-Being"" by Dennis Carradin is a comprehensive guide aimed at supporting the mental health and resilience of first responders. The book delves into the unique challenges faced by police officers, firefighters, paramedics, and dispatchers, offering tailored mental health therapy approaches. It explores cognitive-behavioral therapy, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, and mindfulness practices, among others, to help first responders cope with traumatic reactions and post-traumatic stress disorder. The book is dedicated to fostering unbreakable well-being beyond the call of duty, emphasizing the importance of mental health care in the high-stress world of first response.

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Dennis is a Licensed Professional Counselor of Mental Health, a Nationally Certified Counselor, a Board-Certified Expert in Traumatic Stress, and a Diplomate for the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress.Currently, he is the Executive Director of New Perspectives, Inc., a private counseling agency in Delaware, and served on the faculty of Penn State University, Brandywine Campus, for 15 years. He is a Vice President and Principal Consultant for SSC Consulting. Dennis is a trained trainer for R-3 Continuum. He is the President and CEO of the Trauma Survivors Foundation. He serves on three international trauma firms.Dennis is a former Nationally Registered Emergency Medical Technician and a former Emergency Medical Technician with the state of Delaware. He is a former volunteer firefighter. Dennis serves as a LAST member for the National Fallen Firefighter Foundation in conjunction with the National Fire Academy. He is the clinical director and team coordinator of the New Castle, Kent, and Sussex County CISM teams as well as the Wilmington Police and New Castle County Police CISM teams, the AI DuPont CISM team, and the State of Delaware CISM team. Dennis is the State CISM Chairman for the Delaware Volunteer Fireman's Association. He is the President of the Wilmington West Rotary Club. He is listed in the National Center for Crisis Management's directory of expert witnesses and premiere speaker's bureau.He has attended Millersville University, Temple University, and Walden University. Dennis has conducted numerous debriefings on domestic as well as international disasters, shootings, bombings, bank robberies, corporate incidents, school disasters, and Fire, EMS, and Police tragedies including, but not limited to, the attacks on the WTC in NYC, the Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Sandy relief efforts, the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shootings, the Boston Marathon Bombings, the DC Navy Yard shootings, the Paramus Park mall shootings, the Pulse Night Club shooting, the Hurricane Harvey Relief efforts, the Annapolis shootings, Las Vegas shootings, and the Capitol Building Insurrection.

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