What is old is new again. As I logged into my blog space, I learned that the Weebly site had undergone an overhaul. Many new changes, however, I like the 'old' since it is still new to me.
It has been an extremely long time since my last post and I would love to have a myriad of excellent excuses for why I have not written or updated, but I don’t. Life happens. Being a student happens. Being a mom, wife, coach happens. The time between July 2015 and now has flown by. A brief synopsis of what has transpired in the past year and a bit, I lost an aunt suddenly who was dear to my kids and me, I celebrated 20 years marriage by taking a Mediterranean cruise, I lost a man I considered like a step-father suddenly to cancer, my husband retired after an exemplary 31 year career with the Toronto Police service to begin his second career as a fulltime professor at Durham College, my 13 year old actress has had some health issues but still manages to perform in her musicals (Shrek, Fame, Blue Suede Shoes and Charlie Brown) and is currently rehearsing for Rent and is also the choreographer, my oldest daughter started her second year at USCA as a lady Pacer soccer player, and I became a CPI certified train the trainer for their non violent crisis intervention program. That is a very brief resume of the last year, so yes it has been busy especially when you combine 20-25 hours of masters studies a week J
As I sit and type this, I stare off into space at my large wall calendar with my deliverables, and realize that I have 115 days to complete my thesis. It has been a whirlwind, and just as the saying goes “you blink and your kids are grown”, well you blink and your Masters program is nearing completion and you are working on a 10000-word research document.
I still must pinch myself to remind myself that I have survived and made it to this point. ( #MALAT, @RRU). I won’t ramble on in this post as I must get back to researching for my literature review, but I will share with you my topic and question. If you have suggestions for recent (2010-2017) peer reviewed articles, please send them my way.
As my close friends know, policing is and always will be near and dear to my heart. It has been a part of our life and has also provided us with a very comfortable life. It should then be of no surprise that my research question involves policing in some way. My question is:
In what ways, might the use of simulation training impact the outcomes when police interact with persons in crisis (PIC)?
I am trying to maintain a North American focus, Canadian would be even better, however I won’t know that until I finish my literature research. I have found some great articles written by Canadian researchers. I will leave it here for now as my search engine is calling ……
Your thoughts and perspectives are always welcome.
Yvo
It has been an extremely long time since my last post and I would love to have a myriad of excellent excuses for why I have not written or updated, but I don’t. Life happens. Being a student happens. Being a mom, wife, coach happens. The time between July 2015 and now has flown by. A brief synopsis of what has transpired in the past year and a bit, I lost an aunt suddenly who was dear to my kids and me, I celebrated 20 years marriage by taking a Mediterranean cruise, I lost a man I considered like a step-father suddenly to cancer, my husband retired after an exemplary 31 year career with the Toronto Police service to begin his second career as a fulltime professor at Durham College, my 13 year old actress has had some health issues but still manages to perform in her musicals (Shrek, Fame, Blue Suede Shoes and Charlie Brown) and is currently rehearsing for Rent and is also the choreographer, my oldest daughter started her second year at USCA as a lady Pacer soccer player, and I became a CPI certified train the trainer for their non violent crisis intervention program. That is a very brief resume of the last year, so yes it has been busy especially when you combine 20-25 hours of masters studies a week J
As I sit and type this, I stare off into space at my large wall calendar with my deliverables, and realize that I have 115 days to complete my thesis. It has been a whirlwind, and just as the saying goes “you blink and your kids are grown”, well you blink and your Masters program is nearing completion and you are working on a 10000-word research document.
I still must pinch myself to remind myself that I have survived and made it to this point. ( #MALAT, @RRU). I won’t ramble on in this post as I must get back to researching for my literature review, but I will share with you my topic and question. If you have suggestions for recent (2010-2017) peer reviewed articles, please send them my way.
As my close friends know, policing is and always will be near and dear to my heart. It has been a part of our life and has also provided us with a very comfortable life. It should then be of no surprise that my research question involves policing in some way. My question is:
In what ways, might the use of simulation training impact the outcomes when police interact with persons in crisis (PIC)?
I am trying to maintain a North American focus, Canadian would be even better, however I won’t know that until I finish my literature research. I have found some great articles written by Canadian researchers. I will leave it here for now as my search engine is calling ……
Your thoughts and perspectives are always welcome.
Yvo