Trending Topics
olsen-2.jpg

Althea Olson and Mike Wasilewski

More Than A Cop

Althea Olson, LCSW, and Officer Mike Wasilewski, LCSW, have been married since 1994. Althea is a social worker in private practice at Fox Bend Counseling in Oswego, Illinois. Mike works full-time as a police officer for a large suburban Chicago agency and part-time as a social worker with Fox Bend Counseling. They write on a range of topics including officer wellness, relationships, mental health, morale and ethics. Their writing led to them developing More Than A Cop, and they have traveled the country as police trainers teaching “survival skills off the street.”

LATEST ARTICLES
It is the innumerable small moments in life that define whether we are a person worthy of trust
Supervisors, trainers and experienced officers can use generational traits to motivate and drive innovation
Almost every generation of young people has engendered suspicion, and even derision, among their elders, and the Millennials are certainly getting their share
Anxieties — unlike realistic fear — are selfish and dominate the thoughts and actions of those who suffer from them, but with effort you can avoid being trapped into destructive patterns of worry
Answering yes to any of these questions might mean you have burnout
Unfulfilled promise can be a catalyst for professional burnout, especially when we feel that somewhere along the line we dropped the reins — make the effort to make changes
Our inability to talk about suicidal urges — and how prevalent depression and mood disorders are — can be a deadly taboo
When the job becomes so all-consuming, as it does for many cops, life becomes one-dimensional