E.85 The Complication Of Working In Corrections With Brad Cowen

Resilience Development in Action: First Responder Mental Health

Steve Bisson

Substance Use, Mental Health, Psychology, Education, Counseling, Social Sciences, Honest, Science, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

5.0 • 21 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we talk to Brad Cowen who worked at the Department of Corrections in Massachusetts for over 34 years. Brad worked his way up through uniform ranks, entering a management position after 20 years. He discusses what he saw from a staff perspective, how difficult it is to discuss issues, including vicarious trauma, institutional trauma, as well as the code of silence that exist even among staff. We discuss a late, great man we both knew, Robert Sweeney, as well a...

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to finding your way through therapy.
0:05.3	I'm your host, Steve Biesel.
0:07.7	The goal of this podcast is to demystify therapy, what can happen in therapy, and the
0:13.6	wide array of conversations you can have in therapy.
0:17.2	I also talk to guests about therapy, their experience with therapy, and how psychology is present in many places in their lives.
0:25.6	I also share personal stories.
0:27.8	So please join me on this journey about therapy.
0:32.3	Hi and welcome to episode 85 of finding your way through therapy.
0:36.3	I'm your host Steve Bison.
0:37.9	If you haven't listened to episode 84 yet, it was a little bit about me.
0:41.1	Very uncomfortable talking about myself, but go listen to it and you'll see what I'm talking about.
0:45.8	But episode 85 will be with Brad Cohen.
0:50.4	Brad is someone I've known personally for a while.
0:53.4	He is someone who started working in
0:54.8	Department of Correction in 1986 and retired in February 2020. During his 34 years of
1:00.5	employment there, he went up the ranks and ended up being someone who went from a team unit
1:05.8	leader to an IPS, to a sergeant, to an ACA, a training instructor, an auditor, and also serve as a lieutenant
1:13.8	at the end of his career.
1:15.8	He's worked at different places in the state of Massachusetts, including MCI Framingham,
1:20.7	the Substance Abuse Treatment Center, MCI Shirley, Ponville, MCI Norfolk, as well as the state
1:27.0	transportation. Brad wanted to talk a
1:30.1	little bit about the correctional staff and what they go through. And it's something that's
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