Category: Boundaries
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Donna Erez Navot, “Tools for the Clinic Professor: Applying Group Development Theory to Collaborative Learning in Law School Mediation Clinics”
This article examines the theory of group development and collaborative learning as applied to a small group law school mediation clinic. When clinical instructors understand the framework and theory of typical group development, they can help to normalize and illuminate the group process in clinical education, and the clinical instructor can anticipate and better deal…
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Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the next)
This book examines mutual aid, a model of collective support and collaboration to meet individual and group needs, usually stemming from recognition that systems in a capitalist society will not and has not met people’s needs. There are three key bedrocks of mutual aid: mutual aid projects work to meet survival needs and build shared…
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Roni Berger & Laura Quiros, “Supervision for Trauma-Informed Practice
This article sets out a series of principles for the supervision of trauma-informed practice. Trauma-informed supervision combines knowledge about trauma and supervision and focuses on the interrelationship between the trauma, the practitioner, the helping relationship, and the context of the work (Etherington, 2009). Ongoing supervision is a major protective factor against vicarious trauma. Supervision for…
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Gerald Corey et al, Clinical Supervision in the Helping Professions
This chapter, entitled “Becoming a Multiculturally Competent Supervisor”, explores the importance of ensuring that supervisors incorporate diversity perspectives into their supervision through a multicultural supervisory practice. This chapter goes on to provide practical suggestions for incorporating multicultural strategies into supervision. Culture, as applicable to supervision, has been described as such: “By defining culture broadly, to…
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Susan L Brooks, “Using Therapeutic Jurisprudence to Build Effective Relationships with Students, Clients and Communities”
This article suggests that clinicians should adopt a therapeutic jurisprudence approach. There are several key principles integral to therapeutic jurisprudence that clinicians in legal clinics should utilize. These principles include: modelling (i.e., how communication impacts students and how supervisors’ interactions may lead students to mirror what they observed); boundaries and limit-setting; transference and counter-transference, the…
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Laurel E Fletcher & Harvey M Weinstein, “When Students Lose Perspective: Clinical Supervision and the Management of Empathy”
This article examines how law students and lawyers manage the emotional content of their work. Clinical supervisors can enhance the supervisory process by helping law students recognize, discuss, and interpret the emotional experiences of working with clients. Skilled supervision regarding emotions is essential in training law students to manage empathy and identification with a client,…