Hostile Ground : Defusing and Restraining Violent Behavior and Physical Assaults
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (967 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1581600542 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 138 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-23 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Worth the money, but George T. Williams This is a decent little book on how to physically restrain a hostile, mentally ill subject. While it is not a comprehensive tome on the subject, the text provides the reader who has little knowledge or experience with a basis for dealing with a confrontational or pre-violent individual. It is worth the money for those individuals.The first chapters are where the real value of this book lies. It does provide good guidelines for recognizing attack indicators, although, again, they are not comprehensive. A pe. Amazon Customer said Of limited value. I found this book to be of limited value. At best it only gives the reader a very basic and overly simplified explanation in some of the general aspects necessary in recognizing and managing potentially hostile situations. In other areas this book is grossly inadequate, in that it fails to even mention some basic guidelines that can be applied in the decision making process when attempting to resolve a hostile situation. I would only use this book as a basic introduction to the subject matter and not as an
Whether your job puts you in harm's way or you're simply an ordinary citizen who interacts with the public on a daily basis, you will learn from this book.. In Hostile Ground, he gives you a graduate course in such topics as handling fear during a confrontation, recognizing different types of aggressors, identifying common reasons for assaultive behavior, reading body language for signs of impending violence, defusing a hostile situation and managing physical assaults if all else fails. Ed Lewis has faced hundreds of such confrontations as part of a professional restraint team at a mental health facility as well as on the streets as a private investigator, and in that environment he discovered the psychological and physical secrets of defusing such hostile subjects or, if necessary, restraining their attacks. Our personal and professional lives often put us in contact with people who exhibit intimidating, menacing and sometimes outright violent behavior