Integrating Performance & Well Being: A Primer for Justice Students

One of the most important responsibilities of a justice-focused education is to build and support a foundation of wellness within its students – the future practitioners who will go out and serve the public. To serve ethically and honorably, justice professionals should be surrounded by a professional and educational culture that values and teaches well-being and optimal performance. Students and practitioners who experience health and well-being, in all aspects of their lives, are more equipped to serve a public that deserves the best from its public servants. Integrating Performance & Well-Being: A Primer for Justice Students provides an extensive evidence-based primer that addresses multiple domains of performance for college students and new professionals: cognitive, emotional, physical, and professional, and does so while also addressing specific performance needs for college students and new professionals within justice environments.

The focus upon well-being (in physical, cognitive, and emotional domains) impacts every part of performance, and integrating well-being into performance should be viewed as just as vital a foundation for aspiring justice professionals as the study of law, ethics, civil rights, and communications. It is time to look at the preparation and support of our future justice professionals and how it contributes to optimal performance in a highly dynamic and demanding career path.

This text is the first and only to combine psychological performance techniques for justice professionals with those of college students and new personnel, providing readers with a comprehensive approach to both short- and long-term strategies to support students through the lifespan of their justice careers. In this text, students studying justice-related fields can learn how to build and support their own well-being and professional performance to consistently perform at the highest levels required of justice practitioners, from law enforcement to investigations, from emergency communications to criminal law, and from corrections to forensic science.