iPREP Faculty Publish in Prestigious RCMP Gazette Magazine

                                       “Performing under stress: Evidence-based training for police resilience“

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Authored By Judith Andersen, Ph.D., Harri Gustafsberg, M.A., Peter Collins, M.D., Senior Cst. Steve Poplawski, Bsc., Emma King, M.A., Health Adaptation Research on Trauma (HART) Lab, University of Toronto

 

Today’s political and social realities are putting an increasingly intense spotlight on police performance in the field, particularly relating to use-of-force decisions and de-escalation. In addition, policing roles have been rapidly evolving to include new threats to officer and public safety in the form of terrorism and escalating school and community violence. The result is that police agencies are being called on to provide more effective training to their officers….