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Trauma Resilience in UK Policing

 
Read more at: Jess joins The Royal Foundation 2021-2022

Jess joins The Royal Foundation 2021-2022

Jess Miller is taking the Trauma Resiliene in UK Policing project to the fantastic Emergency Responders programme of work being undertaken by The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Specialising in trauma support, Jess will be contributing to new provision to be unveiled later this year, so watch this space! For more informaion...


Read more at: The BIG THREE: Dr Jess and Prof Neil Greenberg on what makes for resilience

The BIG THREE: Dr Jess and Prof Neil Greenberg on what makes for resilience

In August, Dr Jess Miller caught up with Professor Neil Greenberg to talk about how easing in restrictions brings responsibility back to organisations and individuals to consider Covid resilience and how this also plays out in trauma management, especially in the Emergency Response sector. The three components of peer...


Read more at: Police Traumatic Events Checklist at BPS Conference

Police Traumatic Events Checklist at BPS Conference

Our research with Mary Elliott-Davies, one of PFEW’s leading Research practitioners, into the effects of trauma exposure on police officers, including that of incidents specific to the Covid-19 pandemic, featured at annual the DFP conference for the British Psychological Society’s Division of Forensic Psychology (DFP) this...


Read more at: New Police Traumatic Events Checklist now published!

New Police Traumatic Events Checklist now published!

Police Care UK and the PFEW have worked with the University of Cambridge to produce the first UK Police Traumatic Events Checklist (PTEC) designed to represent the most frequently reported "worst jobs" which officers and staff experience in the service. The tool is being congitively tested in 2021 to demonstrate its value...


Read more at: Dr Jess Miller with Prof Neil Greenberg in discussion on the latest on trauma

Dr Jess Miller with Prof Neil Greenberg in discussion on the latest on trauma

In March, Jess was lucky enough to spend some quality time with one of her trauma resilience guru's, Prof Neil Greenberg, catching up with the latest research on all things TRiM, TIPT, reseilience and peer support. The best take home message is that resilience is about knowing when to ask for help and that, as with so many...


Read more at: Jess in reindeer ears says Merry Christmas with Mind

Jess in reindeer ears says Merry Christmas with Mind

For everyone who has supported the work of the Trauma Resilience in UK Policing project with Police Care UK, this is for you too, courtesy of Mind. A lovely 6 minutes of positivity (click here to hear it from me to you at 5m33 secs ; )


Read more at: PTSD and CPTSD in UK Police: Prevalence rates published

PTSD and CPTSD in UK Police: Prevalence rates published

The full peer-reviewed article setting the UK's first ever Police PTSD and CPTSD prevalence rates (at 12% and 8%, equating to one in five with any form of PTSD) is published in Psychological Medicine and available here , now.


Read more at: Supporting Police through Covid & Black Lives Matter: Blog August 2020

Supporting Police through Covid & Black Lives Matter: Blog August 2020

"The most important thing is to allow the police to talk..and we need to make the effort to listen. That’s the only way we’re going to improve.” In this article from Mental Health at Work, Dr Jess Miller talks to Beckett Frith about the challenges faced by the police as public sympathy wanes due to the lockdown and the...


Read more at: Blog "The Police Were Traumatised Before Covid19" June 2020

Blog "The Police Were Traumatised Before Covid19" June 2020

Jessica Brown's 'Stories To Sit With' article on police trauma exposure is worth a read, narrating experiences of life on the job and the reality of lessons that need to be learned in trauma exposure management. The article also features the Trauma Resilience in UK Policing project with Police Care UK and the Department of...


Read more at: Dr Jess Miller talks to Che Donald (PFEW) on Covid19 Resilience for officers

Dr Jess Miller talks to Che Donald (PFEW) on Covid19 Resilience for officers

Police officers and staff are facing new challenges in unprecedented conditions during the pandemic. Repeated exposure to sudden deaths, lack of time to process incidents before the next job and anxiety over bringing the virus back into the home are key issues on which the Police Federation of England & Wales want to...


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Gut instinct in Emergency Response and in life ‘Going with your gut’ or indeed having ‘a police(man)’s nose is definitely a thing. We say it all the time, whether it be about a dodgy person in a position of perceived power (see previous blog on psychopaths), or whether someone ‘likes-you’-likes-you when you sense a little...

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“One more time with feeling”: Dealing with flashbacks In his film, One More Time With Feeling, singer and songwriter Nick Cave spoke about his experience of losing his young son in a tragic accident and the trauma and grief that lives with him. He allowed me to quote him directly in my book The Policing Mind with something...

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