Trauma Resilient Policing - Dr Rick Hanson and Dr Jess Miller

In order to meet the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, Police Care UK are turning to the most influential and insightful voices in resilience and mental health to find out what we can do on the ground to help support officers on the ground.

In this conversation, Dr Rick Hanson and Dr Jess Miller offer practical tips for officers on the front line, as well as sound advice for leadership on how to embed resilient policing brain traits into the wider culture of policing longer term.

Author of the book Resilient, Rick is a psychologist and New York Times best-selling author. He’s been an invited speaker at NASA, Oxford, Stanford, Harvard, and meditation centers worldwide. His books are available in 28 languages and also include Buddha’s Brain, and Just One Thing. His work has been featured on the BBC, CBS, and NPR.

Dr Jess Miller is Principle Investigator the award-winning Trauma Resilience in UK Policing project, bringing 20 years of research experience, including work in critical incident support and preventing violent extremism. Jess now translates the latest neuropsychology into the reality of operational police trauma resilience training and surveys police wellbeing across the UK.