By virtue of their occupational responsibilities, protective service workers are often exposed to stressors and hazards that may increase their risk for various mental health problems. Efforts are thus needed to enhance connection to psychological services across protective service worker groups and to tailor the delivery of these services based on the specific needs of these workers. To enhance the understanding of how to improve the provision of psychological services to protective service workers, the journal issued a call for papers. The 5 articles summarized in this introduction were accepted in response to this call and constitute this special section of articles. These articles represent a wide variety of public safety roles, including police officers, military service members, workers on secure forensic units, and human rights advocates. Despite this variety in specific roles and public service practice settings, findings from each study offer broad insights into bolstering mental health and improving the delivery of psychological services to all protective service workers. Together, these articles provide key perspectives on how to meet the mental health needs of protective service workers and illuminate unique considerations when providing care to this important group. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

中文翻译：

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满足保护性服务人员心理健康需求的策略和解决方案：简介。

由于其职业职责，防护服务人员经常面临压力和危险，这可能增加他们面临各种精神健康问题的风险。因此，需要努力加强保护性服务工作者群体与心理服务的联系，并根据这些工作者的具体需求来调整这些服务的提供。为了加深对如何改善向防护服务人员提供心理服务的理解，该期刊发出了征集论文的呼吁。本引言中总结的5篇文章被响应此调用而接受，并构成了本文的这一特殊部分。这些文章代表了各种各样的公共安全角色，包括警务人员，军事服务人员，安全的法医部门的工作人员以及人权倡导者。尽管在特定角色和公共服务实践环境方面存在多种多样的变化，但每项研究的发现仍可为增强精神健康和改善向所有防护服务工作者提供心理服务提供广泛见解。这些文章在一起提供了有关如何满足防护服务工作者的心理健康需求的关键观点，并阐明了在为这一重要群体提供护理时的独特考虑。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2020 APA，保留所有权利）。这些文章提供了有关如何满足防护服务工作者的心理健康需求的关键观点，并阐明了在为这一重要群体提供护理时的独特考虑。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2020 APA，保留所有权利）。这些文章提供了有关如何满足防护服务工作者的心理健康需求的关键观点，并阐明了在为这一重要群体提供护理时的独特考虑。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2020 APA，保留所有权利）。